Posted on 03/05/2010 8:52:42 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Christian, guard against the light, frivolous, frothy literature of the day. It will lessen your conviction of what is true; it will depreciate the value of what is divine; it will impair your taste for what is spiritual; and it will bring poverty, barrenness, and death into your soul.
God speaks to you from every paragraph and sentence of this Holy Book. It is His voice that we hear, His signature that we behold, His ineffable glory, which, the more it is viewed in this bright mirror, may the more powerfully command our wonder and praise.
Oh that power might come down upon us from the Spirit of truth and grace, and beams from the Sun of righteousness break in upon our minds as we contemplate the intrinsic glories of the Bible! Let the truth and weight of these revelations sink deep into your ears.
Christian, you should have a thousand fold deeper interest in the Bible than in any other, or all other books. This Book offers to you that which most you need, that which is infinitely more to you than all other things; glory, honor, immortality, and eternal life.
We cannot but look upon the prevailing indifference with which the Word of God is regarded, as one of the evils over which we are loudly called to mourn.
You send the Bible to the ignorant and destitute, you carry it to every cottage and waft it to every country, and thanks to God that you do so. But to what extent is it studied in your churches, read in your families, taught to your children?
There is no surer evidence of living without God, than living without intimate communion with the Bible.
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” —
H. L. Mencken
“Christian, guard against the light, frivolous, frothy literature of the day.”
Congress is guarding well, as no one there has read the health bill.
“Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” ~ C.S. Lewis
It isn’t the”light, frivolous, frothy literature of the day” that bothers me as a woman. We all need some frivolity now and then. I read myself to sleep at night as many people do. But that is after I pray. Where are the books for women today that are not filled with the message of sex, sex, sex? Apparently, almost no publisher will accept a manuscript for women’s books unless it has the demanded three sex scenes between unmarried people.
Barbara Cartland novels are from a generation ago, so there!
As Christians we should love God’s word. The items that we do read or watch should reflect that love for God that we profess.
Philippians 4:8-9 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
God bless
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