From Hearing To Seeing

Vance Havner 90x115by Vance Havner

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee. Job 42:5.

Job was a good man already. He feared God and eschewed evil, and God called him “my servant Job” and said of him, “There is none like him in the earth.” Job had heard and had believed. That is good enough to start with. “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Moreover, Job had lived an exemplary life.

But, like many who have come that far, he needed to see God, not in a vision or manifestation to the sense but in a personal, overwhelming, humbling, pride-shattering consciousness of the very presence of God Himself.

Through the ages, such an experience, though wide and diverse in its patterns, has marked the men God has used most. Too many have heard and believed and lived but have not seen. God brings us to where we can say, “But now mine eye seeth thee!””

by Vance Havner

February 8th, 2013

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If We Will Not Carry The Cross—We Shall Never Wear The Crown!

J.C. Ryle 90x115by J.C. Ryle

"Then Jesus said to His disciples: If anyone would come after Me–he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me!" Matthew 16:24

Salvation is undoubtedly all of grace. It is offered freely in the Gospel to the chief of sinners–without money and without price. But all who receive this great salvation, must prove the reality of their faith–by carrying their cross after Christ. They must not think to enter Heaven without trouble, pain, suffering, and conflict on earth. They must be content to take up . . . the cross of DOCTRINE–holding a faith which the world despises; and the cross of PRACTICE–the cross of living a life which the world ridicules as too strict, and righteous over much.

They must be willing . . . to crucify the flesh, to mortify the deeds of the body, to fight daily with the devil, to come out from the world, and to lose their lives, if needful, for Christ’s sake.

These are hard sayings, but they admit of no evasion. The words of our Lord are plain and unmistakable. If we will not carry the cross–we shall never wear the crown!

"Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow Me, cannot be My disciple!" Luke 14:27

by J.C. Ryle