Trustworthy Wisdom@Work
A Repository of Wisdom from Trusted Sources
". . . when Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens." (Exodus 2:11)We may have the vision of God...
"Enoch walked with God . . ." (Genesis 5:24)The true test of a person’s spiritual life and character is not what he does in the extraordinary moments of life,...
"When He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was." (John 11:6)Has God trusted you with His silence — a silence...
"Jesus answered and said, ’I thank You, Father . . . that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes’." (Matthew...
". . . present . . . your members as instruments of righteousness to God." (Romans 6:13)I cannot save and sanctify myself; I cannot make atonement for sin; I...
"Come to Me . . ." (Matthew 11:28)Isn’t it humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things about which we will not come...
"He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21)The revealed truth of the...
"When it pleased God . . . to reveal His Son in me . . ." (Galatians 1:15-16)Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into anyone the hereditary nature...
"Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned . . ." (Romans 5:12)The nature...
". . . to those who are . . . called to be saints . . ." (1 Corinthians 1:2)You have had the vision, but you are not yet...
"He said to them, ’This kind [of unclean spirit] can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting’." (Mark 9:29)We can remain powerless forever, as the disciples were in...
"If You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." (Mark 9:22)After every time of exaltation, we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as...
". . . Jesus took . . . them up on a high mountain apart by themselves . . ." (Mark 9:2)The true test of our spiritual life is...
"I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which...
". . . for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16)At any moment the sudden awareness of...
"Jesus . . . said to him, ’One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor . . . and come, take...
". . . someone said to Him, ’Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.’" (Luke 9:57)Our Lord’s answers were not based on some whim or impulsive thought, but...
"If you . . . remember that your brother has something against you . . ." (Matthew 5:23)If something is brought to your conscious mind by the Spirit of...
"Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." (Matthew 5:41)Our Lord’s teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is...
"If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way....
"He . . . said to them, ’Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem . . . ’" (Luke 18:31)In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow,...
"You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am . . . I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master...
"Now the Lord says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant . . ." (Isaiah 49:5)The first thing that happens after we recognize our election by...
". . . be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)Our Lord’s exhortation to us in Matthew 5:38-48 is to be generous in our behavior...