SPIRITUAL LIFE

"Perhaps this knowledge can give new insight into his words: I am the vine; you are the branches...Remain in me, and I will remain in you...no branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine...remain in my love...I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.(3) The spiritual life, like our development as human beings, is about the process. Just as in farming, much of that process involves watching and waiting, tilling and cultivating the land, even getting our hands dirty or suffering the wounds inflicted by thorn or insect. There are no short cuts for a bountiful harvest." Margaret Manning Shull, Slice of Infinity

A GOD OF LOVE & FORGIVENESS

"Observations from the Old Testament should be enough to convince us that God is a God of love & forgiveness. He desires to forgive, not because He is under some constraint." Charles Stanley, Men's Devotional Bible