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In short:
I desire my life to line up w my words.
My words to line up with my beliefs.
And to believe in true realities.
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My father-in-law, suffering from an advanced case of bone cancer, asked to pray as we left his hospital room. He said three things to the Lord:
First, he thanked God for being good in all circumstances, even when it didn’t match our definition of good.
Second, he asked God to help him be a good example to others during his suffering.
Finally, he thanked God for the rich life of blessings he had been given.
I was blown away. This was a man who did not go to seminary. He couldn’t communicate the theology that I thought I had mastered so well. But in that moment, he revealed a deeper and richer understanding of the sovereignty of God than I ever had.
It’s probably the most powerful prayer I can remember.
It seemed that Bert had every right to complain, but he was joyful. He could have asked others to serve him, but he asked God to help him serve others.
Bert didn’t question God and ask “Why me?” He didn’t bring God into the court of his judgement and say, “Is this what I get after a lifetime of serving you?”
No, my father-in-law’s words were edifying. His tongue was pure. His vocabulary was God-honoring. Why? Because the sovereignty of God ruled in his heart, and out of the abundance of his heart his mouth spoke (Luke 6:45).
I am deeply persuaded that the primary reason we complain, grumble, and accuse is because the sovereignty of God doesn’t rule in our heart.
When people frustrate us, when our plans are thwarted, and when suffering enters our door, our lips dispense words laced with anger, bitterness, envy, doubt, confusion, and fear. All of these emotions are given room to grow when there is a void of rich understanding and belief in the sovereignty of God.
We have forgotten that God’s dominion is an eternal dominion and he does as he pleases (Daniel 4:34-35). We don’t remind ourselves that his judgements are unsearchable and his ways inscrutable (Romans 11:33). We have neglected to meditate on the truths that God rules over the specific details of our lives for his glory and our good (Acts 17:26-27, Ephesians 1:4-6, 20-22 and many more).
It’s easy for us to proclaim these truths during a Sunday worship service, but at street level, does the sovereignty of God really have deep roots in your heart?
That moment in the hospital was God’s revealing grace to me. He was not rejecting me or condemning me for weak theology, but rather opening my eyes, softening my heart, and wooing my soul to trust in him more.
May our Lord do the same with you today!
“Faithfully done, a sermon promotes love of God and neighbor, not self-loathing or apathy.”
Kelly Kapic
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Friendly reminder: All Saints’ Day is about Christ, and specifically what He has done in the lives of the faithful.
"It is true that the Cross casts its shadow over all creation but so does the light of the Resurrection."
Herman Bavinck
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When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said “Repent,” He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. —Martin Luther
"To life up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dung fork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should."
Gerald Manley Hopkins
"the church is sometimes referred to as catholic because it embraces the whole of human experience. It possesses perfectly all doctrines concerning either invisible and visible things that human beings need to
know; it provides a cure for all kinds of sin, either of body or soul;
it produces all virtues and good works, and partakes of all spiritual gifts."
Herman Bavinck
quote found here: bavinckinstitute.org/wp-cont…
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"The holiness of the church is the holiness of Christ in which it shares by grace, being anointed with his anointing, sanctified with his sanctification, and so sharing in his holy relation to the Father through the Holy Spirit." -T. F. Torrance
In this sense, the Christian’s life is to be an art work. The Christian’s life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
Francis Schaeffer
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“He remembered us in our low estate” - Ps 136:23
God’s steadfast love meets us in our weakness. It is His love that defines us, not our strength.
“If I am Jesus’ disciple that means I am with him to learn from him how to be like him.”
Dallas Willard
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Consider women's standards a filter. Become the kind of man the kind of woman you want to be with would want. There's not really a plan B.
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God."
1 John 3:1 (KJV)