Yielding To Christianity

George MacDonald: “To believe in God our strength in the face of all seeming denial, to believe in him out of the heart of weakness and unbelief, in spite of numbness and weariness and lethargy; to believe in the wide-awake real … If we will but let our God and Father work his will with us, there can be no limit to his enlargement of our existence, to the flood of life with which he… Continue reading →

Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face; Here would I touch and handle things unseen; Here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, And all my weariness upon Thee lean. (Horatius Bonar, 1855)
Horatius Bonar, an ordained Scottish pastor, wrote hundreds of hymns. It was said that the hymns came to him during walks beside the ocean or along a brook. Or at other times he might be inspired by the rhythmic clatter… Continue reading →