Proverbially Speaking

From the 2012, volume 50, number 1 edition of The Sword and Staff, pg. 2, come the following proverbs of wisdom along with related articles:

• Christianity gives you purpose in living and hope in dying (1 Peter 1:3-9).

• We are saved from the wrath of God by the love of God, and the fear of God brings us into the mercy of God (Romans 5:6-11).

• A life that has no track to run on, can easily end up wrecked (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:16-27).

• If our lives are not fixed on something higher and greater than what we are, we will become something lower and less than what we are (Hebrews 12:1-2 NASB).

• Cast all of your cares upon the Lord for He cares for you (1 Peter 5:6-7).

• When we are really drawn to the Lord, we will thereby be drawn to the assembly of the saints (Hebrews 10:24-25).

• Before he would spend a day without prayer, Daniel spent a night in the lion's den (Daniel 6).

• The three Hebrew children preferred to face temporal flames in a fiery furnace, and to be found faithful to their God, than to finally face the prospects of the eternal flames of the fire of hell (Daniel 3: Revelation 21:8).

• When we lift up our eyes and behold the blessings of God, it makes us want to fall on our knees (Ephesians 1:3).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets