More, Not Less

We know not what we shall be; 

• but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. 
• Our natural experiences (sensory emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, 
• like pencilled lines on flat paper. 

If they vanish in the risen life, 

• they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, 
• not as a candle flame that is put out 
• but as a candle flame which becomes invisible 
• because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, 
• and let in the blaze of the risen sun.

Adapted Excerpt From A Year with C. S. Lewis  

Prayer: 

• Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, 
• for I have put my trust in you. (Psalm 143:8a NIV)

...when a believer sees the wonderful things God has created, 

• he enjoys it more than an unbeliever can, 
• because he sees something of God in it. 
• I know the Person who made this, he thinks when he watches a beautiful sunset. 
• And that Person is truly amazing!

Adapted Excerpt From

God's Mighty Acts in Creation

Starr Meade

The great need is not to do things, 

• but to believe things. 
• The Redemption of Christ is not an experience, 
• it is the great act of God 
• which He has performed through Christ, 
• and I have to build my faith upon it.

Adapted Excerpt From

Run Today's Race

Oswald Chambers

Every memory.. 

• can become fodder for thanksgiving as we praise God 
• for how He has blessed or delivered or taught us His lessons. 
• The temperature of our spiritual health is measured 
• on the thermometer of thanksgiving.

Adapted Excerpt From

All to Jesus

Robert J. Morgan