Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Oswald ChambersRead
Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes letting go of the past and trusting in a brighter future.
Oswald Chambers encourages individuals to release their burdens and regrets from the past, entrusting them to a higher power, and to embrace the possibilities of the future. It suggests that by doing so, one can step forward with confidence and hope, guided by faith, instead of being weighed down by past mistakes or lost opportunities.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a motivational speech focused on personal growth.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
A man who causes fear cannot be _x000D_ free from fear.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
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