Two areas I liked in today’s study: one, was Selwyn’s statement: ” … the tyranny of monotony (of the present) can be broken for there is a stimulus in Christ that puts a sparkle into life and makes it creative amid the uncreative. Things present do not have any terror, for you do not belong [...]
Well, first off – I’m still thinking about the issue of angels coming between us and God’s love. I can understand what Selwyn is saying but I can’t help feeling that there is another explanation – any ideas, anyone? (What about you, Richard?) His second point about demons is very true – demons do exist [...]
I don’t have much to say about today’s study, but I did like what the elderly Christian lady use to say to Selwyn: ‘I look forward to death and immortality for I want room to grow up in.’ In the two cases which Selwyn discusses – our attitude to death and a positive outlook on [...]
I liked Selwyn’s summary about our attitude to the various good, bad and indifferent events that occur every day. He says: ‘The Christian way does not bear things in the way of Stoicism; nor make you indifferent to things as in Buddhism; nor deny the reality of things as does Hinduism; nor bend under things [...]
Selwyn spends another day exploring what it means to live ‘more than conquerors’. The main verse for reading and meditation, John 17:15, “My prayer (Jesus’ prayer to His Father) is not that you take them out of this world but that you protect them from the evil one.” Tells us that we will continue to live [...]
I can see that Selwyn was really taken with the verse from Paul’s letter to the Romans 8:37, ” … in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” I also agree that this verse should give us confidence to face the difficulties we will experience throughout our journey of [...]
Trouble with authority?
I guess that Selwyn’s conclusion covers the main point in today’s study: “God’s love spans the whole of creation: there is absolutely nowhere where His love cannot reach us.” It also covers the first point made earlier in this study – that is, there is no earthly authority which can separate us from God’s love. [...]
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