Posted in uncategorized on September 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
wrong view
There is a law of fairness that is higher and more absolute than God. It is binding even for God. God must act in response to that law in order to be fair. Our response is to appeal to that law.
THE LAW OF FAIRNESS
GOD
correct view
God Himself is the standard of justice. He uses His power according to His own moral perfection. Thus, whatever He does is fair, even if we don’t understand it. Our response is to appeal directly to Him.
GOD
JUSTICE
Source: Tyndale Life Application Bible
Posted in providence, Spurgeon, Charles on September 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
"I have learnt to kiss the wave that strikes me against the Rock of Ages"
Source: Spurgeon
Posted in Henry, Matthew on September 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The exciting of our graces will be the extinguishing of our corruptions; the more we follow that which is good the faster and the further we shall flee from that which is evil. Righteousness, and faith, and love, will be excellent antidotes against youthful lusts. Holy love will cure impure lust.
(source: Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:22)
Posted in providence, Spurgeon, Charles on September 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have learned to kiss the wave that strikes me against the Rock of Ages.
source: C.H. Spurgeon
Posted in preservation on September 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Hear God’s word, heeding all God’s warnings, trusting all God’s promises and obeying all God’s commands.
source: Philip Graham Ryken, Jeremiah, 36:1-32
Posted in uncategorized on September 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The emanation of divine love to us begins with the Father, is carried on by the Son, and then communicated by the Spirit; the Father designing, the Son purchasing, the Spirit effectually working: which is their order. Our participation is first by the work of the Spirit, to an actual interest in the blood of the Son; whence we have acceptance with the Father.
~ John Owen (Puritan 1600s) ~ from Of Communion With God
Posted in Lloyd-Jones, Martyn on September 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The man who is trying to be a Christian is trying to hold on to something.
The man who is a Christian feels that he is being held by something. It has been put to him, it is there; it may even seem to be in spite of him, but it is there.
It is not what he is doing that matters to him; it is what has been done to him …"
source: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Posted in Owen, John, sin, temptation on September 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
It may be you have prayed, and cried, and resolved, and vowed, but all without success, as you suppose; sin has broken through all: however, if you give not over, you shall prevail at last; you know not at what time God will come in with his grace, and Christ will manifest his love unto you as unto the poor woman [Matt. 15:22-28], after many a rebuke. It may be, after all, he will do it this day; and if not, he may do it another: do not despond. Take that word of Christ himself for your encouragement, Prov. 8:34, “Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.” If you hear him, and wait, though you have not yet admission, but are kept at the gates and posts of the doors, yet in the issue you shall be blessed.
Source: John Owen, The Glory of Christ
Posted in uncategorized on September 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.
Source: G.K. Chesterton
But sometime before dawn on a Sunday morning, a spike-torn hand twitched. A blood-crusted eyelid opened. The breath of God came blowing into that cave, and a new creation flashed into reality .
Source: Russell Moore
Posted in uncategorized on September 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Henry Scougal:
It is true, religion in the souls of men is the immediate work of God, and all our natural endeavors can neither produce it alone, nor merit those supernatural aids by which it must be wrought: the Holy Ghost must come upon us, and the power of the Highest must overshadow us, before that holy thing can be begotten, and Christ be formed in us:
But yet we must not expect that this whole work should be done without any concurring endeavours of our own: we must not lie loitering in the ditch, and wait till Omnipotence pull us from thence;
no, no! we must bestir ourselves to our utmost capacities, and then we may hope that, ‘our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord ‘ (1 Corinthians 15:58).
Andrew Groves 