“The love of Christ which passeth knowledge”
Ephesians 3:19

The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skimmeth the water, and diveth not into its depths, so all descriptive words but touch the surface, while depths immeasurable lie beneath.

Well might the poet say,

“O love, thou fathomless abyss!”

for this love of Christ is indeed measureless and fathomless; none can attain unto it. Before we can have any right idea of the love of Jesus, we must understand his previous glory in its height of majesty, and his incarnation upon the earth in all its depths of shame. But who can tell us the majesty of Christ? When he was enthroned in the highest heavens he was very God of very God; by him were the heavens made, and all the hosts thereof. His own almighty arm upheld the spheres; the praises of cherubim and seraphim perpetually surrounded him; the full chorus of the hallelujahs of the universe unceasingly flowed to the foot of his throne: he reigned supreme above all his creatures, God over all, blessed forever. Who can tell his height of glory then? And who, on the other hand, can tell how low he descended? To be a man was something, to be a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer, these were much for him who was the Son of God; but to suffer such unparalleled agony—to endure a death of shame and desertion by his Father, this is a depth of condescending love which the most inspired mind must utterly fail to fathom. Herein is love! and truly it is love that “passeth knowledge” O let this love fill our hearts with adoring gratitude, and lead us to practical manifestations of its power.

© Charles Spurgeon

Love is the foundation of all things as the Holy book(Bible) revealed to us.The existence of mankind were based on love by the lover and the fact of loving one another is in our hands.Many have defined what loves are but it unfortunately that we can't find true love among mankind again even parent didn't love their children again,Government who promised us that his love for us will never dead in his hearth but it has varnish away.Love have make some people mad in things that lead to their downfall and its has also make some have victory on thing they pursued.Nobody can't fulfill or attain the zenith of love if he/she didn't know the builder or source of true love(God).we neglect it and embrace vain love.Yes! don't be surprise that I said "vain love" many has involved in that in which they thought they have true love for someone else and when the person find out, he/she will be amaze too that the person that he looking up to has no love for him/her.
The absent of true love in a family,school,nation,church even in anywhere we may think of will surely result in malice, lying, hatred,destruction and the likes. Everyone of us need to pay the price of true love that comes from God not from man because we all need it now,not until we marry for those who're not and those who're married need to start to build on that, not until  we having our own children.
Without true love we are not fulfill anything in life.
Wish us all a peaceful and a lovely week

© F. O. G
*#Shalom*

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them... But whoso hearkens unto Me shall dwell in safety 
Proverbs 1:33 & 33

These are perilous times, the age of ecclesiastical hypocrisy has long begun. The system at work in this world is hostile to godliness and the sight of godly men compromising at all front is no longer strange. Devil's onslaught against the church is at its peak and while we are busy pursuing the ever receding world, our own souls are abandoned in great spiritual bankruptcy. Quietly each day, we are advancing into eternity unprepared.

The persuasion is now stronger and there is no escape for such men who have forgotten how to stay connected to God. Forget about our fine artistry, men have turned beastly in their thinking and “the best of men is the best of beast suppressed ”

Only those who gather strength on their kneels, oil their lamps each dawn in quiet fellowship with Yahweh, commit the things of God to heart and ready to do the Master's bidding have learnt the true secret of survival.

May God help us to live for Him alone. Amen

© Olatuja Oloyede

A word of change is a word every individual is praying for,not in other side but in good side. Change occurs everyday in human life and we can't stop it from our lives.Changing is taking place in all aspect of our lives,either physically,spiritually or anyway we may think of.Nobody can live without change but the thing that change in us or around us must be know by us whether its a change that will help our lives or destroy our lives .Our dear Nigeria is facing seriously kind of change now which was imputed by some set of people.Anyway, its a change so many of us are yearning for and now here is the change and most of us that supported the change now asking for another change.The truth of the matter is,change comes from no where,we are the change.A life that didn't change him/herself cannot change anywhere he want to occupy,in any field we may think of.When a life that want to change a particular thing is not thoroughly define or have clear mission and vision,there is no way that such person will not flaw or end up in shame. The notion of changing oneself must be vivid to such person before taking a step to change others lives.Whom you look unto now for change will determine your tomorrow change.
Unfortunately, many have lure to bad change,they can't grow(change) the way others did.Its time to have the change of mind and ways because if our minds and ways is not change,we'll remain changeless which implies,no progress(stagna),no vision and things will become gloomy for such soul.
They can still be a change in your life if only you can re-plan it.

Have a abundance blessed week.

© F. O. G

There could be and there could be not a pathology. There is a cause that sometimes made me to put up a call to you.
When the hatched of the world's fury treatments coloured the day and are there quantum and batches of little pains. I seek to put on the little residue of my coal of life into a smile I hoped to grow.

While I long to see where my seed could yield bigger than it invest I think not much cos I know the field.

Sometimes I share testimonies of overcoming outcomes.

Sometimes I act like wounded pygmies on a great plain of the ocean's land.

Sometimes I feel the heat that scooped up the black  forest on the head of a gentle man.

And I long for the cold that could freeze up a little more of my plenty waters
Don't go away, the man's world had no outta of frame the miller ruled the margin and grunted to mock.

For while I have so much to keep inside the young head, I checked my purse to find not a thing.

I called to get courage. To start again another cycle of smile and another phase of being true .

I'm not laying down the first bright brine.
  The youth primer on getting true salt SHOULD be an adventure but who cares about the boat that would sink and the fish that will feed on the fats.
I'm not saying anything thing specific but to try to tell a little that there is a lost cause and that there is a gained course.

I'm already seeing it and the source of my JOY doesn't lie in the church of the bright smiles that rolled in the eyes of the of the saints of my century but just in CHRIST JESUS my LORD.

© Felix Joy Adewale

We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God” Acts 14:22

God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, he included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they were predestinated for us in Christ’s last legacy. So surely as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: he has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the “Father of the faithful” Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction. It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King’s vessels of honour are distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God’s children, they have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they have his presence and sympathy to cheer them, his grace to support them, and his example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach “the kingdom,” it will more than make amends for the “much tribulation” through which they passed to enter it.

© Spurgeon

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you”
1 Peter 5:7

It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel—“HE careth for me” Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to him but as the small dust of the balance. Nothing is so sweet as to

“Lie passive in God’s hands,
And know no will but his”

O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Sit not down in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses. There is One who careth for you. His eye is fixed on you, his heart beats with pity for your woe, and his hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. He, if thou art one of his family, will bind up thy wounds, and heal thy broken heart. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, he has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.

© Spurgeon

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” Genesis 1:4

Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by it. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures. When the Holy Spirit gives us spiritual light, and opens our eyes to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, we behold sin in its true colours, and ourselves in our real position; we see the Most Holy God as he reveals himself, the plan of mercy as he propounds it, and the world to come as the Word describes it. Spiritual light has many beams and prismatic colours, but whether they be knowledge, joy, holiness, or life, all are divinely good. If the light received be thus good, what must the essential light be, and how glorious must be the place where he reveals himself. O Lord, since light is so good, give us more of it, and more of thyself, the true light.

No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them, let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord’s work, leaving the works of darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever. Our Churches should by discipline divide the light from the darkness, and we should by our distinct separation from the world do the same. In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and maintain the great distinction which the Lord made upon the world’s first day. O Lord Jesus, be thou our light throughout the whole of this day, for thy light is the light of men.

© Spurgeon

“knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?  l” 2 Samuel 2:26

If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true sketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next twenty or thirty years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by an outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter.

Tread softly, for I must show you the deathbed of such a one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, “O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?” “Yes, he is coming” The minister comes “Sir, I fear that I am dying!” “Have you any hope?” “I cannot say that I have. I fear to stand before my God; oh! pray for me” The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the way of salvation is for the ten-thousandth time put before him, but before he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the man, and where are the man’s true eyes? It is written, “In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment” Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before? Because he was so accustomed to hear the gospel that his soul slept under it. Alas! if you should lift up your eyes there, how bitter will be your wailings.

Let the Saviour’s own words reveal the woe: “Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame” There is a frightful meaning in those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah’s wrath!

© Spurgeon

It shall turn to you for a testimony – Luke 21:13

Life is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody “call back” and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together, and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, but glorious. It takes strength and steady step to find the summits. The outlook widens with the altitude. If anyone among us has found anything worth while, we ought to “call back.”

If you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back—
’Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track; 
And if, perchance, Faith’s light is dim, because the oil is low, 
Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go.

Call back, and tell me that He went with you into the storm;
Call back, and say He kept you when the forest’s roots were torn;
That, when the heavens thunder and the earthquake shook the hill,
He bore you up and held you where the very air was still.

Oh, friend, call back, and tell me for I cannot see your face,
They say it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in the race;
But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim,
And I cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him.

But if you’ll say He heard you when your prayer was but a cry,
And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s sin-darkened sky
If you have gone a little way ahead, oh, friend, call back—
’Twill cheer my heart and help my feet along the stony track. 
—Selected

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds” Proverbs 27:23 Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, “Search me, O God, and try me”; and he will frequently set apart special seasons for self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his soul. The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher; and of old his servants knew him as “the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men” Let me stir you up in his name to make diligent search and solemn trial of your state, lest you come short of the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God himself does with us all, I exhort you to do with yourself this evening. Let the oldest saint look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy. Every now and then a cedar falls into our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares among the wheat. It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind; nay, verily, but I shall hope the rather that the rough wind of self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but carnal security, which we would kill; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, which we would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy. By the precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but that sincere souls might show forth his praise, I beseech you, search and look, lest at the last it be said of you, “Mene, Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”

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The trial of your faith”

1 Peter 1:7

Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering ocean the keel sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure of the full and swelling sail, it is then that she makes headway towards her desired haven. No flowers wear so lovely a blue as those which grow at the foot of the frozen glacier; no stars gleam so brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky; no water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand; and no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity. Tried faith brings experience. You could not have believed your own weakness had you not been compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God’s strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trial is precious too. Let not this, however, discourage those who are young in faith. You will have trials enough without seeking them: the full portion will be measured out to you in due season.

Meanwhile, if you cannot yet claim the result of long experience, thank God for what grace you have; praise him for that degree of holy confidence whereunto you have attained: walk according to that rule, and you shall yet have more and more of the blessing of God, till your faith shall remove mountains and conquer impossibilities