Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The Best Things 1

The best thing to do is to believe God's words, to have a full belief in them, so that the enemy cannot pull you away. Make your calling and election Sure, simply trust to the Blood of Jesus Christ. Believe on Christ, and then take up your cross, and follow Him. Behave yourself in this world, be weaned from yourself, and delivered from looking to self for help. Come on to Jesus Christ. Think about and do those things which promote personal, private purity and piety. Reverence and adoration for the Most High, love of His character, obedience to His will, devotion to His service, seek His honor and happiness.  Be good to God, for He is so good to you.

It is more blessed to give than to receive. Lay up treasure in heaven. Throw all your works overboard and rest on Jesus Christ alone. Cease from yourself, and drop into the hands of the Savior. The best thing to do is get rid of your self-righteousness. Your best performances are not worth anything in the sight of God. You must count the best things in you to be but filthy rags, fit only to be cast away. There is nothing in our inward nature that is lovely. Think less and less of yourself, and utterly abhor yourself before God, and begin to admire and esteem Jesus Christ.

Fixed admiration, adoring gaze to the Lamb of God, this will cause others to look to Him. To be dead indeed unto sin, and alive to Jesus Christ. Lord increase my faith. Be a disciple of Jesus Christ. The best thing about the Gospel is Christ Himself. Go and do something in the strength of the Lord. Draw nearer and nearer to the Father of spirits. Take the rock of sin out of your shoe, and walk closer to Jesus. Take what God reveals to you and believe that, obey the light you have. The best thing you can do is ask for God's mercy through Jesus' blood. The best thing (God's word), in the best place (my heart), for the best reason (that I might not sin against God). Purity is the true fruit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Cling to Christ alone.

Outward religiousness without heart piety does a man serious injury. God desires truth in the inward parts, He will not quibble with dishonest men. The next best thing to actually being in heaven is to be assured that you will be there one day. The best thing is to remember that there is an open door at Calvary to every soul who lives. Give your money to the Lord before it flies away. Troubles wake us up like guard dogs before the thief gets into our life and steals everything we got. To spend and be spent in the Lord's service is the very best thing that can happen to us. Love God, get nearer to Christ, seek the power of His blood, dwell in Him, live upon Him. Bring others to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The very best thing you can do in trials is just to rest in God, and wait patiently for His leading and help and wisdom. The very best thing you can do is go directly to Christ first. Keep your eyes ever upon the Cross, for Christ Crucified is the one and only hope for sinners. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, that is, the highest wisdom to be obtained, to depart from evil, and to please the Lord out of gratitude and love to Him.

To be cast down is often the best thing that happen to us. Troubles check our pride. We are very apt to grow too big for our britches. It is always a good thing for us to be taken down a notch or two or four. We often rise too high in our own estimation. If I want to go to heaven, it is so simple - I simply go by faith to Christ, trust myself wholly to Him, and I freely get to heaven through Him. Go and tell Jesus all about your problems. Sin leads us to delusion, deception, degradation, and death. The best things come to the lowly in heart.

The best thing that I've ever heard is that, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The best thing to do is to do our best in the sight of God by seeking our own personal sanctification (well behaved and grateful). When doubts and fears arise, the best thing to do is Pray - God be merciful to me a sinner for Jesus' sake. Come repenting and humbled, and take the Lord Jesus Christ to be your All in All, take Him to be your living, loving Savior. The best thing is to seek the Lord's blessing on whatever you are doing for Him. If you want to be happy and do the best thing that is possible in your whole life, love your Maker - Jesus Christ. To ask for more Faith in order to obey is always the best thing to do. The best thing in the world to do with our problems is to write them down on a piece of paper, and then kneel down at Jesus' feet and spread those problems out before Him, and ask Him for help and direction, and then leave those problems there before Him.

A good appetite is one of the signs of good physical health, it is the same with the soul. Hunger after Christ, His holiness, thirst after that which is right, good, pure and lovely. It is sweet to know that our best things are ahead. O lost sinner, you are leaving your best things behind you, and you are going to your worst things, but the Christian is going to his best things. The Christian's turn is coming, he will have the best of it before long. Here's a good question - Will this be the best thing I can do for the glory of God? If you feel dull and dead inside, fly away to Jesus Christ, cry out to the Holy Ghost for help and strength, and He will bless you. Never look within yourself. Break off your evil habits, develop clean habits, pray to God for more grace and wisdom. Whenever you think of sinning, the best thing to do is Pray, say, "O God, help me to love You, not my sin."

To believe in Jesus alone for Salvation is your highest wisdom, to repent of sin a joyful necessity, to follow after holiness a noble pursuit, and to serve God our greatest privilege. Jesus saves sinners, He shall save me, for I am a sinner. Jesus changes hearts, and He shall change mine. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart.. If you have something in your mouth that you desire to eat, the best thing to do is just swallow it down. This is what Faith does. Faith swallows Christ Himself down spiritually into the inmost heart and soul. There is no antidote against your sins like the word of God and the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. The best thing possible to do is to be calm, deliberate, and diligent in the Lord's service. When you get weary and worried, sometimes the best thing you can do is to just take a nap.

Here's the Best Thing to Believe - You are a sinner; all the sins you've committed in your past are currently on your soul. You have sin all over your soul, and there's nothing you can do to get it off. If you die without the Blood of Jesus Christ applied to your soul, you will die in your sins. God can't take you back in your natural sinful state, because God is sinless and holy. Here's the only Remedy for your sinful condition - God Almighty came down to this earth as a Jewish man; He bore your sins in His own body on the Cross, He suffered what was due to your sins in your place. He bled and died and endured the wrath of God on account of your sins. The question is simple - Are you going to die in your sins and pay for your own sins, or are you going to trust Jesus Christ as your Sin-Bearer, and die with your sins on Him? It's that simple - God help you to do the right thing. The right thing to do is to receive Jesus Christ into your heart, and trust to Him as your personal Sin-Bearer. He was wounded for your transgressions, and bruised for your iniquities.