Dear Friend,
A few days ago, our computer ate some of our incoming messages. We can't find them, so I am writing this because if yours was one of them, you might wonder why I did not answer it.
Since I am writing anyway, I will add a few thoughts in a different vein.
• You want to be a Christian.
• Somehow you think the Gospel is true, even while you are rebelling against God for sending Jesus to the Cross.
• You may be seeing a quality of life that you do not see in others and which you want to have.
• You may desire Heaven.
• You may be concerned about judgment.
• You may have read biographies of Isobel Kuhn, Amy Carmichael, Corrie ten Boom, Patricia St. John, or Lilias Trotter. These were women of faith whom I respect very much. If you haven’t read them, I would encourage it.
The best way of learning is by imitation. There may not be many people alive that you would like to imitate. So imitate people who are no longer alive but who are in Heaven.
In your search, you might want to spend some time reading, not singing, some of the great hymns, such as “Amazing Grace,” “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
Here is the last stanza of “The Love of God,” which you may not know:
Jim Wilson
A few days ago, our computer ate some of our incoming messages. We can't find them, so I am writing this because if yours was one of them, you might wonder why I did not answer it.
Since I am writing anyway, I will add a few thoughts in a different vein.
• You want to be a Christian.
• Somehow you think the Gospel is true, even while you are rebelling against God for sending Jesus to the Cross.
• You may be seeing a quality of life that you do not see in others and which you want to have.
• You may desire Heaven.
• You may be concerned about judgment.
• You may have read biographies of Isobel Kuhn, Amy Carmichael, Corrie ten Boom, Patricia St. John, or Lilias Trotter. These were women of faith whom I respect very much. If you haven’t read them, I would encourage it.
The best way of learning is by imitation. There may not be many people alive that you would like to imitate. So imitate people who are no longer alive but who are in Heaven.
In your search, you might want to spend some time reading, not singing, some of the great hymns, such as “Amazing Grace,” “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.”
Here is the last stanza of “The Love of God,” which you may not know:
Could we with ink the ocean filland one of the stanzas from Annie Johnson Flint’s “He Giveth More Grace.”
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky.
He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greaterYour friend,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase
To added affliction, he addeth his mercy
To multiple trials, His multiplied peace.
His love hath no limit; His grace has no measure
His power has no boundary known to man
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
Jim Wilson
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