The Best Christian Teachings and Readings

Do we not know that throughout Scripture a chief element of faith in God is a sense of powerlessness and utter helplessness? I want to speak here on the place faith must have if we are to obtain that deep, intense, living vitality which we are longing for. If we are to appropriate the words, "Fear not, only believe," as really spoken by our Lord to ourselves, we must note well the attitude of the man to whom they were first given. Jairus was in great trouble. His little daughter was at the point of death. He fell at Christ's feet and begged Him to come and lay His hand on her. Jesus went with him. But all at once there was an interruption by a woman who touched the hem of Christ's garment. Jairus began to fear that they might arrive too late. His worst fears were realized. A messenger met them, saying, "Your daughter is dead; why trouble the Master any further?" It was to such a man in his deep distress, now brought to utter hopelessness, that Christ sp...

o tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang. And what is the root and essence of the character of our Redeemer? There can he but one answer: it is His humility. What is the Incarnation but His heavenly humility, His emptying Himself and becoming man? What is His life on earth but taking the form of a servant? And what is His atonement but humility? "He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." (Phil. 2:8) And what is His ascension and His glory but humility exalted to the throne and crowned with glory? "He humbled Himself.... Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name." (Phil. 2:8,9) In Heaven (where He was with the Father), in His birth, in His life, in His death, in His sitting on the throne - it is nothing but humility. Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature, the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in meekness and gentleness t...