If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

Refuse to be average.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.