Aletheia

Grace & truth came through Jesus Christ

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“The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.” -Samuel Rutherford

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“Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances... Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.” - Charles Spurgeon

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☆ What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ, who, with His precious blood has fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me, that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair can fall from my head; yes, that all things must work together for my salvation. Wherefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready henceforth to live unto Him. ☆

- Heidelberg Catechism

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Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”

Elisabeth Elliot

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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” - C.S. Lewis

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“There is a certainty of love that sets my heart at rest— A calm assurance for today that to be poor is best— A prayer reposing on His truth Who hath made all things mine, that draws my captive will to Him, and makes it one with Thine.” - My Heart Is Resting, O My God by Anna L. Waring

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“When Paul wanted to encourage Christians he did not say that their breakthrough was around the corner, he helped them to make sense of their suffering in light of the coming reign of Christ. If we suffer with him, we will reign with him.” - Esau McCaulley

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“But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far.”

— Philippians 1:22-23

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I know that my redeemer lives What joy the blest assurance gives He lives He lives who once was dead He lives my ever living Head He lives and grants me daily breath. He lives and I shall conquer death. He lives to make all things new He lives to make His promise true.

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“I am a Calvinist; I believe in election and predestination; but I would not dream of putting it under the heading of essential. I put it under the heading of non-essential… You are not saved by your precise understanding of how this great salvation comes to you. What you must be clear about is that you are lost and damned, hopeless and helpless, and that nothing can save you but the grace of God in Jesus Christ and only Him crucified, bearing the punishment of your sins, dying, rising again, ascending, sending the Spirit, regeneration. Those are the essentials… While I myself hold very definite and strong views on the subject, I will not separate from a man who cannot accept and believe the doctrines of election and predestination, and is Arminian, as long as he tells me that we are all saved by grace, and as long as the Calvinist agrees, as he must, that God calls all men everywhere to repentance. As long as both are prepared to agree about these things I say we must not break fellowship. So I put election into the category of non-essentials.”

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Martin Lloyd-Jones

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So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16

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“𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎: 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚗

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚜 𝚐𝚘

𝚄𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎

𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚋𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝, 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍

𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚍

𝚆𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝙸𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚎𝚕 𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚍

𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚝 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚎?”

- “𝙸𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜” 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎

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“𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭.” - 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐇𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐝

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“Dear refuge of my weary soul,

On Thee, when sorrows rise

On Thee, when waves of trouble roll,

My fainting hope relies.

To Thee I tell each rising grief,

For Thou alone can heal.

Thy Word can bring a sweet relief,

For every pain I feel.”

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“𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐝’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲.”

- 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩

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His be the Victor’s Name who fought the fight alone; Triumphant saints no honor claim; Their conquest was His own.

By weakness and defeat He won the glorious crown; Trod all His foes beneath His feet By being trodden down.

What though the vile accuser roar of sins that I have done;
I know them well, and thousands more; My God, He knoweth none.

He hell in hell laid low; Made sin, He sin o’erthrew; Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, and death, by dying, slew.

Bless, bless the Conqueror slain, Slain by divine decree! Who lived, who died, who lives again, for thee, my soul, for thee.

My sin is cast into the sea of God’s forgotten memory no more to haunt accusingly for Christ has lived and died for me.

- “His Be the Victor’s Name” by Zac Hicks