Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matt. 11:28 WE return now to our study in The Complete Green Letters, Part One – Principles of Spiritual Growth, coming to chapter 15 simply titled Rest.  As the title of our study

PICKING up where we left off in Chapter 15 looking at REST in Principles of Spiritual Growth, we are coming to realize what it means to cease from our own efforts and enter into a rest – what I like to term a quiet confidence – in the providence and

WE continue in on study in Principles of Spiritual Growth in chapter 15, looking at the principle of REST, seeing the necessity to labor at resting in our Position, place, promises and provisions of our God as a principle of growth. Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit;

Our part is to yield our wills, and take God’s side against ourselves, whilst the Holy Spirit applies the death of the cross to all that is contrary to Him, that it may be really true that we who are of Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and

WE come now to the 16th chapter of our study in Principles of Spiritual Growth, titled Help. Just like the idea of “Rest” had a paradoxical element of which we were to labor in, likewise we are going to find something a little odd here as well.  This is a

So, are you still with me?  This chapter can challenge our thinking.  This suggestion of moving from asking to appropriation seems to run a little counterintuitive, just like not asking for blessings until we come to fully own what we already possess, every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3).  But

I RECALL times having pulled up behind a car on the road with a little bumper sticker saying, “Let go, let God.”  I know some might quibble over that, but it makes me smile because I do think it gets to the heart of what it means to simply trust

WE come to the next to last chapter of Principles of Spiritual Growth by Miles Stanford, to Chapter 17 titled Cultivation.  AS I began to read this chapter,  I had to smile at the very first sentence, “There can be little question concerning the importance of balance, so vital in

IN the previous post we started the 17th chapter in The Complete Green Letters, Principles of Spiritual Growth, titled Cultivation.  I opened with comments about the importance of keeping things in balance from the authors opening statement.  As we come to today’s consideration, there is a sentence that jumped off

“An amateur is a person who does a thing until he gets it right; a professional is one who does it until he can’t get it wrong.”  So from the previous comment, did any guess who said that?  If not, the answer is, Louis Armstrong. OKAY, as we come now

WE come to the end of this 17th chapter in our study Principles of Spiritual Growth, titled Cultivation, being reminded as to how our author ended last week’s comments: To the extent that we learn how our Father has had to handle us through the years will we understand how

When we first start out, hungry and zealous for Him, it is often imagined that extensive progress has been made when as yet we have barely begun. As our Lord takes us along through the years, it slowly dawns on us that there are vast, almost infinite, areas of development

Continuance – from “do” to “be” THERE is a line in today’s consideration of particular note, “It is a matter not so much of that from which we are saved as of that unto which we are saved.”  AS we come to the end of our study in Principles of

WE are rapidly coming to a close as we wrap-up the last chapter of our study in Principles of Spiritual Growth.  This last chapter titled Continuance recalls to mind all that we have looked at in the necessary elements of spiritual growth. We spent a great deal of time looking

WE took a moment last time to pause and reflect about all the things that occupy our minds and time; those things that would distract us from our purposed end, the Lord of glory – and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

EARLIER this week, during my study in preparation for one thing, I discovered another quite unexpected “thing other” – discovering something I had never seen before in scripture.  It is always so exciting when that happens, when some unexpected little gem is unearthed.   A PARABLE that is becoming a