2 CHRONICLES 8
"Take care of the days, and the years will show a fair record." --The Duty of Every Day, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 13
"We want a religion that will go all through our life; and if there is anything in our life that will not stand its presence, the sooner we get rid of that element the better. A mountain road has generally a living brooklet leaping and flashing by the side of it. So our lives will be dusty and dead and cold and poor and prosaic unless that river runs along by the roadside and makes music for us as it flows. Take your religion wherever you go." --The Duty of Every Day, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 13
"There is nothing that will help a man to do his day’s work so much as the realisation of Christ’s Presence. And that realisation, along with its certain results, devotion of heart to Him and submission of will to His commandment, and desire to shape our lives to be like His, will make us masters of all circumstances and strong enough for the hardest work that God can lay upon us." --The Duty of Every Day, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 13
"Use your religion on the trifles, or you will not be able to make much of it in the crises." --Chronicles 8:12, 13
" The manna fell every day, and was gathered and consumed On the day on which it fell. God gives us strength measured accurately by the needs of the day. You will get as much as you require, and if ever you do not get as much as you require, which is very often the case with Christian people, that is not because God did not send enough manna, but because their owner was not ready to catch it as it fell." --The Duty of Every Day, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 13
2 CHRONICLES 12
"The policy of drift is unworthy of A man and is sure to end in ruin." --Contrasted Services, 2 Chronicles 12:8
"The rabble of competitors of God catch more souls by accident than of set purpose. Most men are godless because they have never fairly faced the question: what does my soul require in order to reach its highest blessedness and its noblest energy?" --Contrasted Services, 2 Chronicles 12:8
"No sin ever yields the fruit it was expected to produce . . . ." --Contrasted Services, 2 Chronicles 12:8
"Only fools try to blink the fact that all our doings have consequences." --Contrasted Services, 2 Chronicles 12:8
2 CHRONICLES 13
"The consciousness of weakness is the beginning of faith." --The Secret of Victory, 2 Chronicles 13:18
The secret of victory"The purpose and end of self-contemplation which becomes aware of our own feebleness is to lead us to the contemplation of God, our immortal strength." --The Secret of Victory, 2 Chronicles 13:18
"The recognition of danger is meant to drive us to God." --The Secret of Victory, 2 Chronicles 13:18
"It is not only that Christ's soldiers are to fight and pray, but that they fight by praying. That is true in the small conflicts and antagonisms of the lives of each of us, and it is true in regard to the agelong battle against ignorance and sin." --The Secret of Victory, 2 Chronicles 13:18
2 CHRONICLES 14
". . . If we look fairly in the face of our duties, our tasks, are dangers, the possibilities of life and its certainties, the more humbly we think of our own capacity, the more wisely we shall think about God, and the more truly we shall estimate ourselves." --Asa's Prayer, 2 Chronicles 14:11
2 CHRONICLES 17
"No one can suppose that society is organised on Christian principles even in so-called ‘Christian countries’; and there is much overturning work to be done before He whose right it is to reign is really king over the whole earth. We, too, have our ‘high places and Asherim’ to root out." --Jehoshaphat's Reform, 2 Chronicles 17:1-10
"Forcible reformations of manners, still more, of religion, never last, but are sure to be followed by violent rebounds to the old order." --Jehoshaphat's Reform, 2 Chronicles 17:1-10
"God's way of influencing actions is to reveal himself to the understanding and the heart, that these may move the will, and that may shape the deeds. Wise men's will imitate God's way."
--Jehoshaphat's Reform, 2 Chronicles 17:1-10
"The essence of sacrifice of self is the sacrifice of will." --Amasiah, 2 Chronicles 17:16
"It matters Little what men may say of one another, but it matters everything what God says of us." --Amasiah, 2 Chronicles 17:16
". . . does It's weird not God keep his children's gifts as lovingly, and set them in places of honour in the day when he 'makes up his jewels' ? There are cups of cold water and widows' mites and much else that A supercilious world would call 'trash' stored there." --Amasiah, 2 Chronicles 17:16
". . . the Lamb's Book of Life has ample space on its radiant pages for all who desire to set their names there and if ours are there, we need not envy the proudest whose titles and deeds fill the most conspicuous pages in the world's records." --Amasiah, 2 Chronicles 17:16
2 CHRONICLES 20
" When the valley is filled with mist and swathed in evening gloom, it is the time to lift our gaze to the peaks that glow in perpetual sunshine." --A Strange Battle, 2 Chronicles 20:12
"How much one man who has drunk in God's assurance of victory can do to send a thrill of his own courage through more timorous hearts!" --A Strange Battle, 2 Chronicles 20:12
"'They also serve who only stand and wait,' and they also conquer who in quietness and confidence keep themselves still and let God work for them and in them." --A Strange Battle, 2 Chronicles 20:12
"A thankful heart not seldom brings into existence that for which it is thankful." -- A Strange Battle, 2 Chronicles 20:12
". . . faith is not believing a number of theological articles, nor is it even accepting the truth of the gospel as it lies in Jesus Christ, but it is accepting the Christ whom the truth of the gospel reveals to us." --Holding Fast and Held Fast, 2 Chronicles 20:20
"The man who walks holding God's hand can put down a firm foot, even when he is walking in slippery places." --Holding Fast and Held Fast, 2 Chronicles 20:20
2 CHRONICLES 24
". . . there is no telling the amount of mischief that pure weakness of character may lead into." --Joash, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 17
"The man who does not bar the doors and windows of his senses and his soul against temptation, is sure to make shipwreck of his life and in the end to become 'a fool.'" --Joash, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 17
"Learn to say No! or else you will be sure to say Yes! in the wrong place, and then down you will go . . . ." --Joash, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 17
"God will not let us ruin ourselves without pleading with us and wooing us to love Him and cling to Him." --Joash, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 17
"Joash’s command is imperative on all workers for God. ‘See that ye hasten the matter,’ for time is short, the fruit great, the evening shadows lengthening, the interests at stake all-important, and the Lord of the harvest will soon come to count our sheaves." --Glad Givers and Faithful Workers, 2 Chronicles 24:4-14
"Common sense prescribes taking slovenly work out of lazy hands. The more rigidly that principle is carried out in the church and the nation, at whatever cost of individual humiliation, the better for both." --Glad Givers and Faithful Workers, 2 Chronicles 24:4-14
"Grudging service is no service, and money given forever so religious a purpose, without gladness because of the opportunity of giving, is not, in the deepest sense, given at all." --Glad Givers and Faithful Workers, 2 Chronicles 24:4-14
"Public money should never be handled by man alone; and an honest one will always wish, like Paul, to have a brother associated with him, that no man may blame him in his administration of it." --Glad Givers and Faithful Workers, 2 Chronicles 24:4-14
2 CHRONICLES 27
" You Christian people ought to make it a point of duty to cultivate the habit of referring everything that you do to the Will and judgment of God." --Jotham, 2 Chronicles 27:6
"The Bible has a great deal to say about the need of obstinate persistence on the right road." --Jotham, 2 Chronicles 27:6
2 CHRONICLES 28
" The more he multiplied his gods the more he multiplied his sorrows, and the more he multiplied his sorrows the more he multiplied his gods." --Costly and Fatal Help, 2 Chronicles 28:23
". . . no accumulation of insufficiencies will ever make a sufficiency." --Costly and Fatal Help, 2 Chronicles 28:23
"The world has a way of getting more out of you than it gives to you." --Costly and Fatal Help, 2 Chronicles 28:23
2 CHRONICLES 29
" We can never begin good things too early, and when we come into new positions, it is always prudence as well as bravery to show our colours unmistakably from the first." --A Godly Reformation, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
"It is useless trying to mend a nation's fortunes unless you mend its morals and religion." --A Godly Reformation, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
"Some of us are very fond of trying to set churches to rights. Let us begin with ourselves, lest, like careless servants, we leave dirty finger-marks where we have been 'cleaning.'" --A Godly Reformation, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
" If we are chosen to be his ministers, we have solemn responsibilities. If we are to burn incense before him our censers need to be bright and free from strange fire. If we are the lights of the world, our business is to shine." --A Godly Reformation, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
"Calvary is the true fountain of song." --Sacrifice Renewed, 2 Chronicles 29:18-31
". . . will not the self-devotion kindled by the fire of love, speak in daily life by practical service, and the whole activities of the redeemed man be a long thank-offering for the lamb who 'bears away the sins of the world' And if we do not thus offer our whole lives to God how shall we profess to have taken the priceless benefit of Christ's death?" --Sacrifice Renewed, 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
2 CHRONICLES 32:1
". . . the upshot of the whole is just that old teaching, that if we realised what life is for, we should wonder less at the sorrows that are in it. For life is meant to make us partakers of His holiness, not to make us happy." --A Strange Reward for Faithfulness, 2 Chronicles 32:1
2 CHRONICLES 33
"We cannot do what the world does without being more deeply guilty than they." --Manasseh's Sin and Repentance, 2 Chronicles 33:9-16
2 CHRONICLES 34
"The only reformation for an effete or secularised church is in its return to the Bible. Faded flowers will lift up their heads when plunged in water. The old Bible, discovered and applied anew, must underlie all real renovation of dead or moribund Christianity." --Josiah and the Newly Found Law, 2 Chronicles 34:14-38
2 CHRONICLES 36
". . . an evil life has its roots in an alienated heart, and the source of all sin is an obstinate self-will." --The Fall of Judah, 2 Chronicles 36:11-21
". . . the greatest of all sins is refusing to hear God's voice when He speaks to us." --The Fall of Judah, 2 Chronicles 36:11-21
". . . the fear of the Lord and the keeping of His commandments, are the true life of a nation. If Christian men lived up to the ideal set them by Jesus, ‘Ye are the salt of the land,’ and sought more earnestly and wisely to leaven their nation, they would be doing more than any others to guarantee its perpetual prosperity." --The Fall of Judah, 2 Chronicles 36:11-21
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