• Commitment

    1 Timothy 1:11 …the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. Commitment is a fearful word to many modern day believers because to many minds, it means the need to be bound by someone or some institution other than self. Sadly, many do not see the need to be committed to the Lord, to the Lord’s Church, to service to the Lord. Many cite personal reasons, situations and practical occurrences as reasons why they cannot be committed to the Lord. The word commit means to be entrusted to. In the words of the apostle, the Lord has entrusted to him the glorious gospel of Christ.…

  • The High Estimate on a Mother’s Love

    Image courtesy of Natalia Osiatynska from Flickr; licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic In extolling His love towards His people, God uses the attention that a mother gives to her infant nursing child as an example of His own love for Israel. He expects that a mother, in the most natural of all attributes, will tenderly and spontaneously watch over her young. He asks a rhetorical question to Israel: can a woman forget her young? Is it possible for a mother to forget a young infant child who needs her? Notice three qualities that GOD highlights in this simple verse: A MOTHER PROVIDES FOR HER CHILD: Can a woman forget her…