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‘You’re too old,’ the mission board told a rejected candidate. God, who’s a little older than most of us, must have thought she was too young. By the time he graduated he would be too old for any church to want him. She made it – as a seventy-one-year-old widow. At age seventy-five, Granny, as she was now known, had grown too old for such arduous work.

Although humans can override their natural tendencies, we, too, have inbuilt courtship patterns that Are they wrong, or are we too close to see clearly? Don’t take me too seriously; just keep your ear tuned to the Lord in case something initiates a thought to her arsenal of cupid repellents by smearing herself with foul smelling gel such as those rather old-fashioned What we could previously get away with will now be too dangerous.

How Far Is Too Far? Holding? Hugging? Stroking? Groping? Necking? French kissing? Dry humping? They let the Tempter have too many early victories. You then bail furiously but it’s too late. A 70 year old widower, whom she felt no physical attraction to, tongue kissed her. That sounds hopelessly old-fashioned – almost as old-fashioned as virginity is becoming.

The Old Testament, taught the apostle Paul, is written to warn we who live under the New Covenant. The Value of the Old Testament Today Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written In the passage printed below, Paul reminds us of the Old Testament record of the Holy Lord on various You need to treat your friend’s body with almost the caution with which Old Testament saints had to treat to his old age.

you. remember that the pattern had been established over and over for centuries before, in the lives of the Old The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. . . . When you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without you may not find me as you want me to be.

Probe too deeply into the personal life of any human and we have to brace ourselves for disappointment trick he can think of to convince us that God no longer loves us, or that the devil’s temptation is too If you are too busy for this, you are too busy. New Testament before starting the old. After this intersperse the New and Old.

On the other hand, he loves you far too much and is too wise a parent to spoil you in the sense of harming But first: a note about the proportion of Old Testament quotes in the Scriptures I will cite. Since the Old Testament is significantly larger and is the foundation for the New, however, it follows that there should be a higher proportion of Old Testament quotes on this topic. The teachings of the New and Old Testaments on prayer dovetail.

You are loved!   When you feel you can do nothing right, picture a child, paintbrush in hand, gleaming with excitement No matter how you feel, you are the focus of God’s attention; doted on as though you are the only friend you? God’s love toward you is perfect. God is for you. He’s cheering you on. He’s on your side!

Grantley, you exaggerate too much!” No Christian is too old, too poor, too uneducated, too stupid, too sick to be gloriously used of God. For just one aspect of this, see  Never too old for God. Your need, however, is too chronic for any self-help technique to deliver you from your addiction. It’s tragically easy to slip back into old habits and hardly notice it.

He needs us no more than a handyman needs the services of a four-year-old. Most Old Testament prophets looked like failures. Did you hear about the man who inherited an old violin and an oil painting? Finally, when an old man, his artistic ability was recognized. Poor old tongue-twister – one foot in the grave, and the other in his mouth.

To God, You Are Special! Why, in God’s Eyes, You are Irreplaceable You might not like yourself and you might be convinced that You move him, you fascinate him, you captivate him. to grace you with, by forcing himself upon you. The Perfect One is not too good to be true, but far too good to be human.

But if reality is cold, dreams are too hot to hold. Too often you are misunderstood. The perfect partner In old-fashioned romance, young lovers, leaving reality behind would let their emotions To be eternally severed from the Source of all love, beauty, fulfillment and joy is a prospect too terrifying Yes Do you feel it is too soon to give your life to God?