The moral things we do might make us feel we’re better than other people but in reality, we’re still sinners by the standard of God. To attain God’s righteous standard, he himself has to attain it through us.
We will never be able to fully understand the New Testament by reading just the New Testament but by the references that the Old Testament provides. We will also never be able to fully comprehend the Old Testament without the reality that the New Testament provides.
Noah wasn’t waiting for the perfect timing based on what forecast says or what he could see with his eyes, he was waiting for the instruction of the Lord, for the Lord’s timing
We claim that we trust God but most times we have other plans. The plan B, C,D and Es are not just because we’re detailed, they’re sometimes symbolic of our fear that his plan might not work. We are constantly peeping into the future, just in case….
At Cana in Galilee, Jesus hasn’t turned the water into wine yet, he didn’t even pray on it before he asked the servants to take it to the chairman. Yet, these servants obeyed and went, not because they’ve tasted it but because Jesus said so
Every part of the broken walls in our society is close to one person or the other, if you focus on the broken wall next to you and I focus on the broken wall next to me, very soon there won’t be any broken walls left.
I believe that our lives are like cities and we are the watchmen of over those cities. It is our responsibility to ensure that our dividing walls of self-control are standing strong and separating us from the immoral desires of the world around us and all forms of reckless living.
The enemy is not the uncle that took advantage of you; not your best friend that betrayed you. The real enemy is the devil and all those people are mere tools. You don’t stop a man from writing by taking away his pen, he may stop for a while but be sure he’s coming back with another pen’
The efforts we make at being like Christ have profits for us both in this world and in the world to come unlike the profits that physical exercise has to offer all of which will end in this world.
sometimes after you have done everything necessary but life still happens and sometimes may want to make you look stupid. Sometimes you’re even too discouraged to try again or stand up when you fall because you’re thinking to yourself ‘what can I possibly do differently that I’ve not tried before?’