We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; in deed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul ... if there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

By small means the Lord can bring about great things



We turn a horse by the small bits in his mouth.  A ship is turned by a very small helm. Our tongue is a little part of our body yet boasteth of great things. “Yet Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessings and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren bear olive berries? Either a vine figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”  (James 3:3-12)

I have to admit that when I read about the fountain sending forth sweet and bitter water I get a visual of the Ohio River running into the muddy Mississippi  

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