The Sensation of Being Somebody
Building An Adequate Self-Concept
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

God+me=ME, a whole person,was coined by Dr. Wagner 35 years ago in order to express the Biblical truth that a new identity is born in us when we invite Jesus to take control of our lives.

When I receive Christ, a new person starts to grow, and a new nature begins to develop. As this new nature is nourished by God’s Word, it becomes more and more mature, and the awareness that I am somebody to God becomes more and more dominant. It is this security which frees me from the control of the old nature and the illusions of the past. Now, I can feel that I really am somebody, because I am somebody to God.

This work was one of the first of its kind during the last century. The psychology that God has placed in the Bible predates all human attempts to explain mental development. From Scripture, Dr. Wagner has distilled a unique system of threes that explains the development of the human identity. This system mirrors God’s revelation of His identity as triune and reveals how we are created in His image. Here you will find practical principles that will give solutions to personal problems and will help you understand yourself and others. This is a Bible study with useful applications. It will give insight almost immediately so that you can begin to experience for yourself,
The Sensation of Being Somebody!

His Healing Hands
By Warren Frankel, M.D.

You feel as though you are with Dr. Warren Frankel as he tells the stories of his world-hopping adventures. He will take you to real places, where you will meet real people who were sick unto death with no hope of ever seeing a doctor. You can almost taste the food and hear the noises of the ghettos where he has traveled. You can feel the joy as the people sing praise to God for the healing that his team brought them. The trip you make with him in your mind will transport you to China, Africa, Mexico, and many other places. Through his simple storytelling style, he will take you to places of danger, disease and suffering. He will show you how God uses a person's simple desire to serve, and transforms it into His healing hands, God's hands to those that need a touch from their Saviour.
Dr. Frankel is a member of His Healing Hands, an organization that takes short term mission trips with a team of professionals and ordinary folks like yourself. You will see through this man's life that whatever your background or whatever your training, you can experience the joy of serving. After reading this book you may see more clearly what you can do to become the person God meant you to be.

His Healing Hands
By Warren Frankel, M.D.

The same great book with scratches and some torn edges.
You feel as though you are with Dr. Warren Frankel as he tells the stories of his world-hopping adventures. He will take you to real places, where you will meet real people who were sick unto death with no hope of ever seeing a doctor. You can almost taste the food and hear the noises of the ghettos where he has traveled. You can feel the joy as the people sing praise to God for the healing that his team brought them. The trip you make with him in your mind will transport you to China, Africa, Mexico, and many other places. Through his simple storytelling style, he will take you to places of danger, disease and suffering. He will show you how God uses a person's simple desire to serve, and transforms it into His healing hands, God's hands to those that need a touch from their Saviour.
Dr. Frankel is a member of His Healing Hands, an organization that takes short term mission trips with a team of professionals and ordinary folks like yourself. You will see through this man's life that whatever your background or whatever your training, you can experience the joy of serving. After reading this book you may see more clearly what you can do to become the person God meant you to be.

Put It All Together
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

This book is designed to be a working model of true Christian psychology! The author's application of biblical truths to psychological concepts opens the door for Christians everywhere to come to grips with their emotional insecurity, their self-concept, and their interpersonal relationships.

According to Dr. Wagner, "The person who has accepted a relationship with God through faith in jesus Christ has a real basis for inner security." Put It All Together provides Christian counseling and reveals scriptural answers on how to deal with emotional insecurity.

These are brand new books that have been in storage since 1974. They are a collectors item as this title was the first published work of Dr. Wagner. The supply is very limited!

Anger's Fire Extinguisher-
What Anger Is and How to Get Rid of It
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.


Anger, the most common and destructive emotion, which seems to attach itself to us and explode without warning. Controlling, venting, ignoring, and talking are some of the common answers offered for managing this volatile energy, but are they really the biblical antidotes?

Dr. Wagner discusses how God gives us the option of eradicating anger at its source. The Christian who takes this biblical understanding into the marketplace of life will find there is always a good option to acting upon the compulsive outburst of destruction.
Anger is obvious at times, yet illusive at other times. This book identifies various types of anger and many of the more subtle ways they creep into our lives as bitterness and depression.

This practical study is useful for all Christians that have experienced anger and want a godly solution to this hurtful problem. 185 pages.

Rescued By Angels
By Bishop Alexis Blindabagabo

The Rwandan Genocide Reported As He Experienced It!

This personal account by Bishop Alexis describes in detail the living horror of knowing he was targeted to die – and that he could not protect himself or his family. He was a Tutsi leader, and for the simple fact of his identity, he would be killed. It was only a matter of time.
He set himself and his family, in prayer and faith, to meet his death. There was no alternative, in the midst of this genocide, where one million people were slaughtered in the streets!

But God had other plans for this man!

Here in his own words is the story of God’s rescue, time and again, of this faithful servant from a certain death sentence, one he saw being carried out daily on others.
An inspiring reminder to believers of God’s power to protect and provide, it is also a resource for courage and strength at any time, and, perhaps, specifically for these times.
You may agree with the many that believe these are the end times, when Satan shall go about seeking whom he may devour, “knowing he hath but a short time.”

This small book carries a powerful message for believers and non-believers alike, a witness and teaching tool for revealing God’s love, power, and provision, both in the physical world where rescue was “impossible,” and in the hearts of man where reconciliation without the love of God, would be an impossibility.
The insight gained by Bishop Alexis makes fascinating reading, and explores the history of Rwanda and events prior to the tragedy.
The choice of Rwandan citizens to pursue reconciliation suggests a wisdom far beyond that of those who organized and implemented this terrible blot on the history of man.

Grief Is Not Forever
Jeri Covalt

A strong wind blows some trees down, but with others it strengthens their root systems.

This book clearly shows how God uses trials to strengthen the spiritual root systems of His children and how he impels them to grow and mature emotionally. Trials do not need to be destructive. In God's grace, they can be loaded with positive, helpful instruction.

This autobiographical account of Jeri Covalt is a frank, unembarrassed discussion of her emotions as she endured the slow agonizing death of her husband, Dick Krumroy. He was her lover, her source of security, and her reason for living. Jeri shares many of the truths and principles that she learned in counseling and used in working her way through the baffling impossibilities.

This book has been written for those who are groping for guidance while having to say good-by to a loved one. It is also a practical guide for using Biblical insights in handling everyday hardships.

A Lonely Heart Learns to Love
Priscilla English Walton

This is an excellently written autobiographical sketch of Priscilla’s own counseling sessions which began when she felt alone and depressed, always feeling left out when in a social situation, and ended when she not only found peace of mind but a sense of useful involvement with other people. She is presently teaching a class of adults in her local church with a joyful sense of fulfillment.

Become the Person God Meant You To Be
Training in Spiritual Growth and Helpfulness
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

According to the Bible, God created us in His image so that we could have fellowship with Him and He with us. An image is subordinate to the original object, and all through the Bible, beginning with the story of creation, God indicates that the only way of life for us that is acceptable to Him is that we humble ourselves under His mighty controlling hand.
God is love and God is good. If we want to make a difference in this world that counts for eternity, we need to respect the Bible as God’s inspired Word and try to become the person He meant us to be at the time of our conception and birth.
“Become the Person God Meant You to Be” is presented in five volumes. The project of living in a difficult world is divided into four quadrants, and each volume speaks to one quadrant. The first four volumes each embody thirteen lessons to be accomplished in a minimum of one year’s study. Helps for teachers are also provided.

Volume 1, Utilize Your Spiritual Blessings
234 pages, presents in 13 lessons, many helps, and various basic teachings of the Bible needed for practical everyday living a life that is pleasing to God.

Become the Person God Meant You To Be
Training in Spiritual Growth and Helpfulness
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

According to the Bible, God created us in His image so that we could have fellowship with Him and He with us. An image is subordinate to the original object, and all through the Bible, beginning with the story of creation, God indicates that the only way of life for us that is acceptable to Him is that we humble ourselves under His mighty controlling hand.
God is love and God is good. If we want to make a difference in this world that counts for eternity, we need to respect the Bible as God’s inspired Word and try to become the person He meant us to be at the time of our conception and birth.
“Become the Person God Meant You to Be” is presented in five volumes. The project of living in a difficult world is divided into four quadrants, and each volume speaks to one quadrant. The first four volumes each embody thirteen lessons to be accomplished in a minimum of one year’s study. Helps for teachers are also provided.


Volume 2, Accept the Significance that God Provides
268 pages, presents the quality of self-image needed for accomplishing the will of God and finding eternal fulfillment.

Become the Person God Meant You To Be
Training in Spiritual Growth and Helpfulness
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

According to the Bible, God created us in His image so that we could have fellowship with Him and He with us. An image is subordinate to the original object, and all through the Bible, beginning with the story of creation, God indicates that the only way of life for us that is acceptable to Him is that we humble ourselves under His mighty controlling hand.
God is love and God is good. If we want to make a difference in this world that counts for eternity, we need to respect the Bible as God’s inspired Word and try to become the person He meant us to be at the time of our conception and birth.
“Become the Person God Meant You to Be” is presented in five volumes. The project of living in a difficult world is divided into four quadrants, and each volume speaks to one quadrant. The first four volumes each embody thirteen lessons to be accomplished in a minimum of one year’s study. Helps for teachers are also provided.


Volume 3, Understand Yourself Emotionally
303 pages, uses biblical truth to clear up many misunderstandings about feelings, emotions, dispositions, and mental attitudes. It presents the way to overcome anger and a negative mental attitude.

Become the Person God Meant You To Be
Training in Spiritual Growth and Helpfulness
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

According to the Bible, God created us in His image so that we could have fellowship with Him and He with us. An image is subordinate to the original object, and all through the Bible, beginning with the story of creation, God indicates that the only way of life for us that is acceptable to Him is that we humble ourselves under His mighty controlling hand.
God is love and God is good. If we want to make a difference in this world that counts for eternity, we need to respect the Bible as God’s inspired Word and try to become the person He meant us to be at the time of our conception and birth.
“Become the Person God Meant You to Be” is presented in five volumes. The project of living in a difficult world is divided into four quadrants, and each volume speaks to one quadrant. The first four volumes each embody thirteen lessons to be accomplished in a minimum of one year’s study. Helps for teachers are also provided.

Volume 4, Master Your Mountains
181 pages, presents a biblical interpretation of the purpose of life’s many problems and guides the reader in mastering most of the common adversities as well as a few of the more complex.

Become the Person God Meant You To Be
Training in Spiritual Growth and Helpfulness
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.

According to the Bible, God created us in His image so that we could have fellowship with Him and He with us. An image is subordinate to the original object, and all through the Bible, beginning with the story of creation, God indicates that the only way of life for us that is acceptable to Him is that we humble ourselves under His mighty controlling hand.
God is love and God is good. If we want to make a difference in this world that counts for eternity, we need to respect the Bible as God’s inspired Word and try to become the person He meant us to be at the time of our conception and birth.
“Become the Person God Meant You to Be” is presented in five volumes. The project of living in a difficult world is divided into four quadrants, and each volume speaks to one quadrant. The first four volumes each embody thirteen lessons to be accomplished in a minimum of one year’s study. Helps for teachers are also provided.

Volume 5, How to Be Helpful without Meddling.
Informed and trained laymen are often good counselors of distressed persons, but they need insight and support. This book of 208 pages is the fifth volume in the series to train persons who have finished the first four volumes and want to study further to become qualified by their church as certified Caring Christian Friends. The Bible commands us to help one another, to show compassionate, godly love.
This fifth volume requires at least one year to complete. It is divided into 4 Sections and uses the first 4 volumes as reference material. It contains many special features including 25 examples of distress situations in each Section and explains how one might be helpful in each.
It is an attempt to prepare those who feel God is leading them to be helpful to others. It helps a Caring Christian Friend to use the Bible appropriately in guiding the distressed persons or couples to align their lives with the will of God and to find His strength and wisdom in resolving their problems and coping with their trials.
Church leadership needs to be involved in the teaching of this volume for both practical and legal reasons. Suggestions are given in detail for a church administrating this project. Pastors are welcome to use all five volumes as an aid in their own personal counseling ministry.

Embrace The Challenge of Being Loving Parents
And Produce A Happy Home
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

There is no greater challenge to one’s emotional and spiritual maturity than rearing children. I don’t intend this book to be an ordinary “another book” on parenting. I intend to make insights available from the Bible, combined with common sense, about family life. The childhood home provides the basic influence that carries over into the next generation for good to the glory of God or for evil. The truism, “What we are, we have always been becoming,” is another way of looking at Proverbs 22:6, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

This book calls attention to motive and choice which controls conduct, and does not deal with changing conduct alone. You will find it helpful in almost every chapter and will be discussing its content with friends with children.

God's Goal for Parents, To Be Agents of His Love
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

The thirteen lessons of this book follow the progression of the trials of being good parents to their children. It emphasizes the importance of love between the parents as well as being consistent in loving their children while instructing and correcting them, and in disciplining. It outlines three stages of parenting, and attempts to correct a common problem that parents encounter with teenagers. If parents are consistent in loving their children, they will enjoy their reward of their children loving them and being considerate of their needs as they grow older.

You will find this series of lessons brief and provocative in helpful class discussions.

God's Goal for Every Believer, Christlikeness
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

This book defines Christlikeness thirteen different ways:
1- Reversing Priorities 8- Overcoming anxiety
2- Being grateful to God 9- Overcoming temptation
3- Walking in fellowship w/ God 10- Being always truthful
4- Praying the right way 11- Being consistently gentle
5- Being “Slow to anger” 12- Means perseverance
6- Accepting rejection 13- Means truly loving others
7- Overcoming doubts

God clearly tells us, Romans 8:29, that we who receive Christ are predestined to become like His beloved Son, and In Hebrews 12:7-11, He tells us that He will use trials and hardships as His shaping tools to perfect the image of Christ in us.

I believe you will be thankful as you study this book that God cares enough for you to mold you into the image of His Son so you will feel at home in His heaven and be a good witness for Him while on earth.

God's Ideal for Marriage
The Two Will Become One
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

An ideal is the ultimate goal. We seldom achieve our ideal goal, and if we do, we probably did not really have a perfect ideal.

My wife and I have been married longer than many people live, and we are dearer to each other every year of our marriage. In this series of lessons I have presented the challenges we have face together, knowing that they are challenges that others also face in marriage. A truism must never be forgotten: When you are married, you are no longer single. That means every married person has some major adjustments to make in his thinking and reacting.

Perhaps the greatest personal adjustment is managing situations where you and your spouse differ without becoming angry. Remember your marriage vows? You promised God and witnesses always to love each other. Love and anger are opposites like love and hate. Another truism is that we always become like the person we love and we become like the person we hate. Love inspires love and motivates closeness. Anger ignites an angry defense and motivates distance.

You will find this little series of studies helps you to keep the goal of marriage clearly in mind so you can find fulfillment in living with your spouse.

Spontaneous Gratitude to God
in Every Situation, Stimulates Spiritual Growth
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

When we are born again, we may be adults, but we are spiritually just babies. We need the milk of the word, the easy to understand teachings of the Bible, to grow spiritually. Later, when we become more informed, we can try to understand the more complex teachings of holy Scripture.

A simple transaction takes place when we are truly grateful for a gift. We take possession of whatever the give may be when we express gratitude. The gift is ours; it no longer belongs to the giver. The giver wanted us to have the token of love, so our gratitude is a way of returning the love gesture.

We are instructed in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to be grateful to God in everything. When we can be thankful to God for the pleasant things, that ‘s easy. But to be thankful for the trying, the painful, the difficult, is not so easy. Being thankful for our hardships means that we take the hardship as a developmental exercise in our companionship with the living God. As an athlete puts his body under extreme stress for development, we take our stressful time as a way of growing spiritually to become more useful to God as an adult spiritually.

These studies should be very helpful to those who study them to become more fulfilled in their Christian life whether or not they can measure their own spiritual growth.

Overcome Anger
The Impulsive Saboteur of Godliness
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

These 13 lessons describe what anger is, how it is like a chameleon changing color according to how it can master the foe, what it does to others and what it does to ourselves. The latter part of the lessons discuss how to overcome anger in its various forms. The Bible clearly forbids Christians from allowing any amount of anger in their behavior or feelings. Anger is an emotion of independence from all authority, and thus it robs us of our submissive relationship with the living God, our redeemer. Instead of having faith in God, we demonstrate faith in ourselves, whether justified or not. Anger is the opposite of love, of mercy, or justice, or humility, It is the opposite of thanksgiving, humility, and submission.

This is one of the most popular little books of lessons I have ever written. I believe you will find it very informative.

3 Natural Emotions Deny Faith in God
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

Like a tripod holds a camera firmly, Satan uses our three natural emotions like a tripod to invade our minds with self-assertive efforts that show no faith in God. If we are feeling guilty over something we have done, we feel most insecure. This insecurity makes us instantly angry which is an illusion of self-sovereignty, free from responsibility. We do as we please while angry, and feel right in doing so. When anger fails to maintain this unrealism, we become fearful, for we have lost our defense against the insecurity caused by guilt. Our fear, or anxiety, causes us to be unrealistic in escaping from the present to thinking as though the future were the present.

Then we try to resolve our fear of humiliation and punishment by an unrealistic attempt to construct a safety type of situation.
Finally, we are back to the guilt where we have to fact the consequences of our bad choices. “Only God can forgive sin” so we are back to square one where we began. This is

God’s way of lovingly leading us to receive Christ as our atonement for our sins, and be forgiven by Him.
This series of thirteen studies is intended to make us aware of how easily Satan can trick us into becoming self-reliant and avoid exercising faith in God and His way of salvation from the consequences of our sins.

Biblical Advice About Managing Anger
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

Secular Psychology insists that anger is a good emotion, for it gets things done. They caution against violence, however. Secular Psychology is basically atheistic. Its concept of anger seems to have invaded the Christian church, for we who are Christian are seldom told from the pulpit that anger, even a little anger, is a natural reaction, but it must be immediately overcome, or we will be sinning against God (Eph. 4:25, 27) and giving the devil an advantage in our Christian life. Anger is an emotion that sets God aside and presents oneself as superior to God, for in our anger we carelessly implore God to damn our enemy to hell. This attitude flies in the face of the second greatest commandment, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Anger is an emotion of the soul expressed by feelings of anger in the body. Hostility is the unfriendly attitude that is expressed by the anger emotion. By nature, Romans 8:5-8 tells us, that by nature, our sinful nature inherited from Adam (Rom. 5:12) is hostile toward God, and our sinful nature is often expressed by anger at Jesus Christ, using His precious Name in vain when angry.

These thirteen lessons attempt to throw light on the attitude toward anger expressed in God’s Word. We are commanded to get rid of all forms of anger (Col. 3:8). A rhetorical question is just this: How can we expect the blessing of God’s leading when we disregard such plain instruction, and assume the attitude of Psychology that a “little anger” is all right. It always amazes me to see how such a little pill for a person can cause a radical change in how that person feels, especially if it is a pain pill, or a tranquilizer. Another type of little pill can destroy a person’s life.

EMMANUEL Means God With Us — PERSONALLY
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

EMMANUEL Means God With Us — PERSONALLY *
by Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M., Ph.D.
____“I will never leave you or forsake you” (Jos. 1:5 and Heb. 13:5) was Joshua’s undergirding courage to lead the Children of Israel to overcome the inhabitants of the Promised Land, for their “cup of iniquity” was full. It was God’s judgment of their sinful, idolatrous practices that they were destroyed.
____This series of studies considers thirteen different life-situations in which we can count on God being with us. This book is intended to be comforting instruction to all who study its contents. As God was with Joshua to give him the skills of leadership of a nation, and of warriors, that he needed to fulfill God’s promise to Abraham, so He will be with us to accomplish His will. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph. 2:10).
____God has redeemed us, brought us into Himself, into His Family of believers, so that we can fellowship with Him by faith in accomplishing the work He created us to do. No one can take our place, and He wants to use each one of His children!
____You will find this book helpful in your walk with the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

How to Know that You Are Walking By Faith
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

Walking by faith seems like stepping into the dark. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” (Psa. 119:105) describes how God’s Word, which is the foundation of our faith in God, giving us direction for the distant future as well as for the immediate step we need to take now.

Even though walking by faith seems like stepping into the dark, we make the step and find His assurance that He is always with us and never will leave or forsake us. What an assurance of our fellowship with the living God!

This series of thirteen lessons gives the reader a list of biblical evidences that he or she is actually walking by faith, or trying as usual, to walk by sight. Each lesson is an exposition of certain Bible verses. You will find this study most helpful in your walk of faith.

God's Forgiveness Motivates Godly Living...
And Resolves inner Conflicts
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

There is a question that requires an answer, but nobody seems to be asking the question. It is just this: When I feel guilty before God or man, how can I believe in myself that I could ever do anything good? Yet parents don’t seem to realize how they put their child in a “catch 22” when they scold and condemn their child for disobedience, often inflicting painful punishment, and then expect the child to come back smiling, perhaps asking, “Please tell me what can I do for you?” They are probably following the only model they had for parenting, their parents, who had parents who did the same thing.

Our God does not function that way. He deals with the disobedience in a very different way. He is sinless and holy. He is also just. He is love, merciful, and gracious. So He provided the punishment for our sin by giving His only begotten Son, whom He declared from heaven that He was well pleased, by letting the violence of mankind to abuse and crucify Jesus as a criminal for us – who knew no sin – as our sin offering. He raised Him from the dead so He could be our High Priest in heaven keeping us forgiven of our daily sins as we confess them to Him.

You see, God wanted His children to have a guilt-free mentality so that they could believe in Him and allow His Holy Spirit to lead them through circumstances that would mold them into the image of Christ and at the same time make them witnesses to those who need Christ as their Redeemer.

You will find these thirteen lessons full of practical insights that motivate a person to live godly in Christ Jesus.

Lord Teach Me to Pray
"Not My Will, But Yours Be Done."
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

When Jesus prayed this prayer this prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was speaking as God, the second Person in the Trinity, without sin, destined to do what He came to earth to accomplish, and that was to atone for our sins. It is nearly impossible for us to conceive what agony he felt at this time. Being totally holy and without sin, to take on Himself our condemnation and being separated from His heavenly Father as we choose to be, and deserve God’s judgment for being independent of God, is beyond our total comprehension. His agony was totally not understood by his disciples who were near him and sleepy. His ordeal of crucifixion and death is beyond our human sympathy. What love is manifested by God the Father that He should reconcile Himself to us by putting His Son to death in our place for our sins! (2 Cor. 5:19-21) And then to commit to us, His redeemed ones, the message of reconciliation, because we love Him who loves us.

Knowing all of this, makes us eager to be totally committed to doing His will in order to show our appreciation for His sacrifice, and to attempt to do this task because we love Him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength (Mat. 22:37-39) and our neighbor as ourself. Because He has forgiven us of all sin, we are free to love ourselves because of His love for us; therefore, we join with Paul in saying, “I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me — the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace” (Acts 20:24). We show love for others, even our enemies, because of God’s unlimited love for us! Godly love is totally self-giving for the welfare of others.

These are the emphases of the thirteen lessons in this book. I believe you will find these studies will bring you into closer fellowship with the living God.

The Omnipotent Power of Choice
"When I would do good, evil is right there with me."
By Maurice E. Wagner, Th.M.,Ph.D.

We are always making choices regardless of what we may be doing. Our minds are usually focused on the image that will satisfy our desires and seldom think about the choices we make to obtain what we want. It is because of this focus on the future fulfillment of our desires that we lose the awareness of our present responsibility of choice. Romans 7:21 says, “So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.” Our choices are always between good and evil, just as it was for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. If we are committed to doing God’s will, our choices will be good choices. If we are putting our wishes and desires in the leadership position in our minds instead of the will of God, we will be choosing evil. This contrast is immutable, and gives us an awesome responsibility, for what we want is often stronger than the voice of conscience: “evil is right there with me.”

You will find this book helpful in focusing your attention on your right of choice where you become responsible for the motivation of your heart instead of just doing what others do and what seems right in your eyes.

This elegant print is an accurate signed and numbered reproduction of an original water color and colored pencil on board 1984
by J. Michael Spooner.
It is unframed and measures 14" x 15"