by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 22, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ. Good keen reasoning may help slightly, but so strong is this vice that if we push it down one place it will come up somewhere else. To men and women everywhere Jesus says, ‘Come unto me, and I...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 21, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“Another source of burden is artificiality. I am sure that most people live in secret fear that someday they will be careless and by chance an enemy or friend will be allowed to peep into their poor empty souls. So, they are never relaxed… Artificiality is one curse...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 20, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“(Concerning the man who has entered God’s Rest). He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything....
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 19, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own...
by TheRestlessPilgrim | Dec 18, 2020 | 72 Days Pilgrim Challenge, Blog
“In the world of men we find nothing approaching the virtues of which Jesus spoke in the opening words of the famous Sermon on the Mount. Instead of poverty of spirit we find the rankest kind of pride; instead of mourners we find pleasure seekers; instead of meekness,...
