Change.

It starts with yourself.

We have a plague of planks in our eyes and all we can focus on are the specks in your neighbor's eye. Things are not black and white. They are light and dark. If we want to see a revolution, it won't start in the government. It won't start with the authorities. It will start in our own lives. The thoughts that we think have to be revolted. Everyone is so quick to grab on to a cause, to feel like they are doing something with purpose that does something good for another person. I begin to wonder if it sounds like a clanging cymbal to His ears. Could the answers we are looking for really be found in a Man?

When time ceases, He still increases

Let this slip back into your mind, the thoughts of memories and the vapored times. Vapored times that are streams of smoke, dancing off of the pulses of light that shine through the different eye-glassed windows. If you reach out your fingers to catch one stream, it vanishes suddenly as when you awake from a dream. When something so fleeting is so constant, it is easily overlooked or feared. If the day is only lived for the events of that day, then the vanities in that day will be filled to the brim. Too often people tilt this glass of momentary vanity, drinking and eating for tomorrow they could die. There is an aspect of time that is often ignored. It is not the past or the present or the future. It is the aspect when the vapors that rise, symbolizing time, shall cease to rise at all and all the vapors that had risen before, all the streams from every era, culminate and gather in this moment. It had been a constant crescendo. All thought that the vapors were fleeting, but they were just seating themselves before the One. So each day must be lived, each to its fullest and the day that is fullest lived is the one that is lived with a eye on the eternal moment when time ceases completely and people stop trying and rest in the be-ing. 

Faith is a good fight.

We are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.
Whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith.

Let us walk and live in a manner worthy of the calling we have received. We are born of the Spirit. Born of God. Born from above. He has overcome the world. Greater is he who is in me than he who is in the world. We are born of God. Sons of God and He is our elder brother. Through faith in Him, we will overcome and receive what he has for us when he returns.

In Quietness and Rest is Your Strength

We are prone to think, for example, that converse with Christian brethren, and the general round of Christian activity, especially when we are much busied with preaching the Word and visits to inquiring or needy souls, make up for the loss of aloneness with God in the secret place. We hurry to a public service with but a few minutes of private prayer, allowing precious time to be absorbed in social pleasures, restrained from withdrawing from others by a false delicacy, when to excuse ourselves for needful communion with God and his word would have been perhaps the best witness possible to those whose company was holding us unduly! How often we rush from one public engagement to another without any proper interval for renewing our strength in waiting on the Lord, as though God cared more for the quantity than the quality of our service!