Looking to a future #2 Going on the right road

Looking for a nice future

When we grow up we foster many illusions. We nurse many hopes as a child and growing up we are confronted with lots of disillusions. But somehow we have an idea that there must be something better than this world. And we are right to think so. But we have to know we shall need to do something to get to a better world.

Responsive & Interactive

All the things that happen around us make us to react in a certain way. It demands the right position of us.

We do have to come to understand that there exists a Holy One making certain Scriptures holy. It is an expounding voice, which lets us see that the things that are seen are all temporal-short-lived and inferior, but also informs us that the things of Christ, not yet seen, are all eternal and lofty and glorious.

“None of us can feel otherwise than unworthy in ourselves of the great goodness that God has promised.
If our faith is counted for righteousness, this is His mercy through Christ; it is nothing upon which we can take our stand
in the spirit of claim.
To the last, we shall be shortcoming, while to the last we may be loving and faithful.
To the last we shall have need to cry-
“Be merciful to me, O God. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions, according to thy mercy remember thou me”. (Psalm 25:7)”

– Brother Robert Roberts; Seasons of Comfort

With all the things we encounter in our life, we shall have to experience pleasant and less pleasant moments by which we have to learn. From those experiences we should make it possible to grow as a human being. They should nurture us and make us stronger and not weaker. But that last part depends on our way coping with such negative experiences.

Never mind other people

So often we hear

“What would others say?”

or

“What would others think of me?”.

“…Never mind other people.
Wherever their influence is calculated to dishearten and discourage –  forbear – endure; mix kindness with resolution; this is God’s will.
We ought not take notice of everything; we ought not speak of every weakness we see, because the flesh is a weak thing at best.

Let things slide, unless there is a breach compromising the authority of Christ, or dishonouring and weakening of the Truth.
Where a man openly disobeys Christ, or corrupts the faith, that would be a thing to take notice of;
a thing that we could not countenance, and be guiltless…

There are many derelictions of duty – oversights, faults, offences, it may be – that God is pleased to pass by, at our request through Christ; and we have to cultivate a similar disposition toward those who err through weakness.
Be kindly and forbearing to everybody but yourself.
Judge yourself by the highest standard.
Allow no excuse for your own deficiency.
Ever afflict your soul and press higher…”
– Brother Robert Roberts
The Ambassador of the Coming Age 1868

“We ought not to bully friend or foe: we ought not indulge in the harsh expletives of the natural man:
we ought not to backbite with the tongue: we ought not retaliate in word or deed.
We ought not to cultivate the use or custody of “carnal weapons”.
The knowledge of Christ without the spirit of Christ is worse than the ignorance, which alienates from the life of God.”
– Brother Robert Roberts

Wider Scope; Problems, sorrows, character, patience and trust

The problems and sorrows of life are unchangeable.
The boasted improvements are all improvements in mere manners and customs.
The real remedy is with Christ – and Christ alone, who has become an almost forgotten tradition, but who will shortly burst upon the scene as a potent Reformer of a very radical type.
When we direct our eyes forward, we see Christ more distinctly than even in the past.
We see ourselves on the verge of that great change by which kingdoms of the world are to be abolished, and transferred to a new order of rulers who have been in slow and painful preparation for ages past –
– Brother Robert Roberts
In our life when we come to know God and do find the Way to God we shall come to see that we need Christ to grow.When we contemplate the blessings we have accrued to us through Christ, and the hopelessness state outside him, how completely we are enabled to enter into the joy of certain biblical characters. They are given us as examples so that we can pull ourselves up.

Our daily prayers should ascend into heaven that He has

“not left us this day without a redeemer.”

We are greatly privileged, greatly blessed, and we need to learn to express our heartfelt thanks in words of appreciation to Him who has made it possible.

Though we may have pains and problems we always should remember that there are others worse of than we.  Those who have found Jesus Christ and his heavenly Father do know that this system of things is limited in time and that a brighter future awaits us.  The only thing is we do have to be patient and to trust the most High.

We must be convinced by the promises made to Abraham and his descendants that those who Trust God and have patience, will see that all things will come right.

We should let our patience and gentleness be known to all men. The belief in Christ is in character an essential ingredient of peace of mind.

“We are apt to think of patience and gentleness as virtues practised for the sake of others, but actually they have an even greater and more basic value to ourselves.
They are part of the invincible armament of internal peace.
They make and keep peace within ourselves even more effectively than they contribute to peace of others. We cannot have peace unless we develop gentleness and patience.”
– Brother Gilbert V Growcott

“Let us express our pleasure, our happiness, in our association with our Lord, And may His name be famous in Israel, as it ultimately will be.”
H.P Mansfield; Ruth Expositor

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