Quotes from Ruth Myers

Thank You, Lord, for all that is new this day — including all my fresh opportunities for loving You, obeying You, enjoying You. Open my eyes to see these things. Help me grasp how I can make the most of them.

Today is a day of opportunity. Whatever our lot, today we have the greatest freedom possible — the freedom to choose our attitude. We make or break our today by the attitudes we choose. Whatever our situation, we can choose the climate of our heart. We can choose the garment of praise.

The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.

May my spiritual senses develop day by day, becoming more and more keen and enjoyable. May my taste for You become stronger and sweeter. May my sight of You become clearer, my spiritual ears more sensitive to Your voice.

And we can grow as much through our mistakes, through our failures, as we can through our successes.

Grant me a growing ability to see all things as a stepping stone to You:

quote from A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God: God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful, that He can without anything other than Himself meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

It's not only true that my life is Christ's, but my life is Christ.

A secret of growth is to never lose sight of the quiet place within you, the silent harbor of the Lord's presence. Enjoy your memories from days of old, but prize nothing more than the Lord and the value He places on each day.

Lord, my deep joy is not in what I am — or used to be — as a mere human being. Instead, "all my springs of joy are in You" (Psalm 87:7, NASB). I

let's all be reminded that no matter what our age, we're all growing older! We're racing toward those later years and the finish line that follows — so why not learn to run that race with grace and joy?

The most important part of living realistically is to hold a true view of God. God is ultimate reality. He's the greatest factor in all that's real. When we let the truth about Him nourish us and remold our minds, this revolutionizes our lives.

If we're busy borrowing distress from yesterday or anxiety from tomorrow, we miss today's best opportunities, thereby postponing our growth in grace, in faith, in character.

Today is a precious possession. It's a generous deposit in our life-bank, one that's here for twenty-four hours only.

Even in times of grief, we can keep from being submerged and shattered if we seek out God's words of comfort today, letting shafts of sunlight from His presence break through our darkness.

How much better to fill today with the three great basics of Christian living — faith, hope, and love. All are rooted in God.