April Happenings

 

April was a busy month revisiting the areas we have done evangelism in previously! (That will be the topic for next time.)

 

   While there is much to keep me busy here, thankfully there is some down time. The Holt’s have quite a collection of books! Being a bookworm, I have enjoyed reading a multitude of their books, as well as others I have downloaded to my Nook. 

 

  I have read quite a variety of books, some Historical, missionary biographies, books regarding Sierra Leone; the war, diamond mining, etc. In the course of my reading, I have gathered a large number of quotes that I found to be interesting.

 

  So here  are just a few of the quotes that I enjoyed:

 

“Thank God for what you receive, thank God for what you do not receive; thank God for the sins you are delivered from; and thank God for the sins that you know nothing at all about, and are never tempted to commit.” (Mary Slessors’ Mother)

 

Mary Slessor's idea of the kind of woman most suited for Calabar – “….consecrated, affectionate women who are not afraid of work or of filth of any kind, moral and material….women who take everything to Jesus and there get strength to smile and persevere and pull on under any circumstance…surely such women are not out of our reach. There are thousands of them in our churches, and our home churches have no monopoly of privilege in choosing to keep them. Spare us a few. Induce them to come forward…help them to come forward.”

 

 “Africa is slow to change: the centuries roll over it, leaving scarcely a trace of their passing: the years come and go, and the people remain the same: all effort seems in vain.” (W.P. Livingstone) Written in the early 1900’s and still true in 2014

 

 “Don’t imagine that by crossing the sea and landing on a foreign shore and learning foreign lingo you ‘burst the bonds of outer sin and hatch yourself a cherubim.’” (Amy Carmichael)

 

 “Here I stand…I can do no other.” (Martin Luther)

 

“We must lose things to know the value of them. It is a dry well which makes people know the value of water.”

 

“Many are going about saying what they are doing for God; but who can tell what He is doing for them?”

 

“Dead fish go with the stream, living ones against it.”

 

“Children take more notice of what their parents do than what they say.”

 

“He was pierced by the nails and by the spear; by the nails to effect his death, by the spear to prove it; both of these, the exhibitions of man’s hatred, before and after death.”

 

“God has given man a book for a standard, not that he may speculate, but that he may not speculate, but believe.”

 

“The sea feels not the abstraction of a drop, nor the sun of a ray; the monarch of a mighty empire does not feel the departure of one subject, but God feels and mourns over the revolt and alienation of one sinner.”

 

“Pile in one mass the countless dead, from Abel to this hour, and ask, Who slew all these? The clear reply is, Sin.”

 

“Your best deserves Hell’s depths.”

 

“Sin must be known, before the grace of God can be prized.”

 

“The Law says DO, grace says DONE; the law says do and live, grace says live and do; the Gospel says to the sinner, “Come,” it says to the Christian, “GO.” (D.L. Moody)

 

“The reason why many get so little out of their Bible reading is simply because they are not willing to think.”

 

Only One Life

By Wilmoth A. Farmer

 

Only one life have I to live upon this earth below;

Only one chance to show to Christ, the love I to Him owe.

 

What if this little life of mine, which Christ so dearly bought

Is lived in sordid selfishness for vanity and naught?

What if it fails to realize the plans divinely laid,

By substituting those of friends, of schemes, which self has made?

 

What fruit can such a life produce, but bitter tears and grief?
The harvest of an ill-sown life for which there’s no relief.

 

But if in God’s appointed way and filled with light divine,

Some darkened spot of earth may see the Christ within me shine;

‘Twere not in vain to thus have lived and suffered toil and pain;

For though I pass from earth away, my life will yet remain.

 

Remain forever in the lives transformed by saving grace,

Because my life was lived for God, and in God’s time and place.

So God and conscience bid me rise, and with a purpose true,

Live for Christ my very best, doing all that I can do.

 

What praise and glory at the day, when shining as the sun,

I hear Him saying unto me, “Well done, thou faithful one!”

Aimée

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Psalm 8:1 (KJV)