Author: David Schwarm

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him–thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him thean the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, defalted, and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefesrs a loving sinner to a loveless ‘saint’. Love can be trained, pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.