Aptiva

"Motive imparts moral quality, and without a holy motive there cannot be a holy act": Those who have come to the realisation that they have no inherent quality to commend themselves to a holy God, have come to the position Jesus describes as "poor in Spirt". This becomes a springboard for all other learning. Further revelation instructs us that all actions done without God being the centre of that action, are actions of selfishness, not ones of glorification of God. Thus a cup of water can be given to a thirsty person, while a beneficial act, it is not necessarily a holy one. It depends on the motive of the giver. All our actions, and therefore our life are eventually revealed by this standard, things done for the glory of God, and things done for our own. What then is your motive?

"The sons of light have an overwhelming obligation to the children of darkness. The lighthouse keeper dare not compromise with the storm; neither dare the light become friendly with the darkness." I wonder how many of us would trust a lighthouse which demonstrated that it was only working part of the time. Reliability to give the same consistent message is at the base foundation of being able to trust that the lighthouse will do the job it was built to do. Each and every day you set out to sea, you rely and have faith that the lighthouse will be there doing it's job warning you away from the treacherous parts of the waters. Without this protection your own life is put at risk. In a world which claims at present that "absolute truth" is a thing of the past, those who place themselves as followers of the living Christ, will disagree with the everyday majority view and firmly believe that "absolute truth" not only is knowable but essential for life. And