Hugh Laing's Blog – October 2010 Archive (2)

The Right Kind of Help

I read this devotional today from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for the Highest". I found it to be very inspirational but wondered what you might think about it's content. So many today really want to preach Christianity Light and ignore the proper treatment of what we call the "Wrath of God"...and too many want to ignore the Cross and what it means altogether. In the late 1700's a great Puritan Preacher named Jonathan Edwards said this in a message he delivered entitled…

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Added by Hugh Laing on October 15, 2010 at 5:13am — No Comments

Use the Character gained on the Mountaintop down in the Valley.

We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something. There is a terrible trap in always asking, “What’s the use of this experience?” We can never measure spiritual matters in that way. The moments on the mountaintop are rare moments, and they are meant for something in God’s… Continue

Added by Hugh Laing on October 1, 2010 at 5:52am — 1 Comment