We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north... We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.