DISCIPLE

  by John W. Brahmall (1899-2001) This subject may not appeal to some folks, but for those who have reached the sunset days of life, a study of it will prove helpful and encouraging. For others, let me suggest that you try to enter into its message or save it until you find yourself in the classification of “Old Age.” It will come soon enough. There can be nothing more beautiful than the declining days of a believer in the Lord Jesus. The character of an aged believer should be more attractive than ever, and though the light of this earthly life may be fading and the shadows deepening, there should be an increasing mellowness, sweetness , and serenity of spirit. “We all do fade as a leaf,” writes Isaiah (Isa. 64:6); “yet,” another has written, “The leaf is never so beautiful as when it is faded. No artist ever painted a picture so beautiful as the panorama of woodlands transfigured with indescribable mingling of gold, crimson, and saffron, as if a flood of d...

Heaven is the center of the Christian's universe, and he is bound to it by eight golden links: 1. Our Father is there (Matthew 6:9). 2. Our Saviour is there (Hebrews 9:24). 3. Our home is there (John 14:2). 4. Our name is there (Luke 10:20). 5. Our life is there (Colossians 3:1-3). 6. Our heart is there (Matthew 6:19-21). 7. Our inheritance is there (1 Peter 1:3-5). 8. Our citizenship is there (Philippians 3:20). -- Henry Durbanville As the poet William Blane wrote: Let those who know no second birth, Labour to write their names on earth. My joy is this, that Love divine, On heaven's scroll hath written mine.