God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.

All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.