Salty Oats—Helping You Thirst For the Living Water
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.
G. Campbell Morgan
Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn’t waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.
Betsy Childs Howard
Rest is not some holy feeling that comes upon us in church. It is a state of calm, rising from a heart deeply and firmly established in God.
Henry Drummond
Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.
CHARLES SPURGEON
Search your heart several times a day, and if you find something that is disturbing your peace, remember to take the proper steps to restore the calm.
Francis de Sales
The first concern of most Christians in trouble is to be delivered from it. However, perhaps this should not be the primary thing. Our one great desire ought to be that we do not fail in knowing or doing the will of God in anything. This is the secret of strength and true character in the Christian life.
Holiness does not come from reading a good book. It does not come about by being in a powerful meeting. Holiness comes by the Lord’s purging out of us our love for sin and for self. This process takes time.
STEVE GALLAGHER
The full flood of my life is not in bodily health, not in external happenings, not in seeing God’s work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the communion with Him that Jesus Himself had.
Come unto me, says the holy Jesus, all ye that labour, and are heaven laden. And I will refresh you. Here, my dear friend, is more for you to live upon, more light for your mind, more of unction for your heart, than volumes of human instruction. Pick up the words of the holy Jesus, and beg of him to be the light and life of your soul. Love the sound of his name; for Jesus is the love, the sweetness, the meekness, the compassionate goodness of the Deity itself; which became man, so that men might have power to become sons of God. Love, pity, and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, then you will dwell in God: hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your own heart.
WILLIAM LAW Letter to a friend 1749 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
