Monday, September 24, 2018
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
FORWARD EVER, BACKWARD NEVER
These are excerpts out of a biography on C. T. Studd (1860-1931) that I read recently. He was a missionary in China, India and Africa. He sailed for China in 1885. His work in India began in 1900, while in Central Africa it started in 1910. His soul departed from the heart of Africa for heaven in 1931. As a champion cricketer and from a well-off home, he forsook all for HIS WORK and is a splendid example in many ways.
"When shall God be able to say to the devil, 'Hast thou seen My Christians of today? No longer do they seek for gold or pleasure, for honours or ease, from henceforth My Christians will spill their blood for the love and cause of My beloved Son, and the salvation of the neediest of men.' Yes when. When indeed shall we see a real Church Militant here upon the earth?"
"We can trust Him too little, but we cannot trust God too much."
"The difficulty is to believe that He can deign to use such scallywags as us, but of course He wants Faith and Fools rather than talents and culture. All God wants is a heart, any old turnip will do for a head; so long as we are empty, all is well, for then He fills with the Holy Ghost."
"Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou removed and cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender! Nail the colors to the mast!"
"The most wonderful of all God's miracles is this one, that He teaches us not merely to endure sacrifices, but to suffer them with joy and to crave for more."
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
