Christian Paradoxes by S. S. Times

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1885

Christian Paradoxes

By S. S. Times

Most of us are familiar—theoretically or practically—with the Christian paradoxes enumerated by Paul in his letters to the churches. But there are other Christian paradoxes, not enumerated by Paul, with which we are still more familiar. There is the believer whose all belongs to God, and who keeps it all himself; the believer who abides in the joy of the Holy Ghost, and is a chronic grumbler over the mysterious ways of providence; the believer who trusts wholly in the promises of the Lord, and wants somebody else to back them; the believer whose life is a living sacrifice to God, yet who never does an act of self-sacrifice if he can help it. Undoubted paradoxes these, and a score of similar ones that might be named.