Absolute Truisms II
By George J. Matranga
“A wise teacher’s words spur students to action and emphasize important truths. The collected sayings of the wise are like guidance from a shepherd.” Ecclesiastes 12:11 NLT
Your disposition in life is determined by the condition of your heart, therefore your disposition will determine your life’s progress.
A mind not submitted to God can justify anything.
The Cross of Calvary is not user-friendly nor ergonomically designed.
The unregenerate human nature wants life on its own terms: freedom without restraint and sin without penalty.
Others may not be able to walk in our shoes but we should leave footprints for them to follow.
What the world doesn’t need is more information but reformation.
We must seek to know Christ personally over our own personal development – He develops us into His own image as we develop our relationship in Him.
Those who rebel against God’s authority will perish under God’s authority.
Our strengths will assuredly become our weaknesses when not submitted to God.
The key to the buoyancy of a child is found in the resilience of the parents.
Love without discipline breeds a deficient child. Discipline without love breeds a defiant child.
Domineering mothers produce fragile children. Domineering fathers produce fragmented children.
There is nothing as good as how righteousness feels.
The anointing will enable us to overcome…but will never override God’s process of spiritual growth.
There is no louder preacher than the silent witness of the Christian’s lifestyle.
Those who are empty of self have a greater capacity to pour into others.
Failure for many of us Christians is that we can so easily recommend the truth for others, yet fail to recognize the need for it in our own lives.
You know a man by the fruit of his life not by the display of his giftings.
Believing is the easy thing; surrendering is the difficult thing.
One can possess the symbols of Christianity yet be void of the substance of Christ.
Oftentimes we are bound by the box in which we put ourselves. We are only free indeed when we become untangled from within.
Private indulgence determines public defilement.
Our lives yesterday should continue to still touch lives today.
When God breaks us of ourselves – we find hidden treasures of Him that we never dreamed were possible – things that were held secret – things we were blind to until we are broken.
Gaining more knowledge will never outweigh simple obedience.
Greed has no ceiling.
“Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right.” Psalm 121: 128
“Lord, let all my pain be for someone else’s healing; every ache for someone else’s joy – that I may be an instrument of hope for the hopeless.”
Prayer by George J. Matranga