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We’ve got it backwards
Reflection on 1 John 1:1-3
Too often, we look for relevant sermons and Bible passages that apply to my life, while the Son of God goes largely unknown.
Many Christians (including myself) seek graduate degrees in, “What the Bible says about suffering” or “What is God’s will for my life”, but have only a high school diploma in “Who is the Word of God, the eternal Son”
For those that think protesters are just randomly attacking people in Baltimore.
YOU NEED TO BE SHARING THIS!!!
ALL WE’VE BEEN SEEING IS PICTURES AND VIDEOS OF BLACK PEOPLE DESTROYING THINGS
NOT SHOWING WHAT THEY’RE FACING.
But what about the asian businesses and business owners? What did they do to that got them beat up and their businesses looted?
Dear Lenny Kravitz (aka Cinna), Did you make that dress for Katy Perry? Katniss' was better.
The Puritan John Edwards likened his reawakening to the gospel to a man who had known, in his head, that honey was sweet, but for the first time had that sweetness burst alive in his mouth.
J.D Grear in his book Gospel Man I want this so badly for myself and the people around me!!
Our almighty God, who sifted stars through his fingers, stands not with kings and princes, but with the weak, the powerless, the poor. Because the people no one else thinks are important have a special place in God’s heart. He hears their cries. He fights for them and defends them. And one night long ago, in Bethlehem, he stepped out of heaven and became one of them.
(via yaerinee)
Love it
HOW I'LL SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION
EXPECTATION
REALITY
please not this summer...
“If you want to understand God, you must stand under God”
There are two people you’ll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book.
Unknown (via jaayjay)
super convicted by this.
Suffering...but guaranteed glory
These last few days have been some of the most miserable, not because of finals, but for personal reasons as well as seeing loved ones around me suffer. And though I should be studying for a ridiculously difficult final tomorrow, I needed to jot these thoughts down as a reminder to myself and perhaps any of you out there of our call to suffer...but also of our call to remember the assurance of subsequent glory.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a]6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2:5-11
What Paul has in focus here is the humiliation and exaltation of Jesus Christ. In obedience to his Father, he has humbled himself by taking on flesh and by subjecting himself to death, even death on a cross! But for his obedience, he could not remain dead. No, on the contrary, his obedience mandated that he be vindicated. His obedience mandated that he be raised and exalted!
And it is this mind that all Christians are called to have - that in solidarity with Christ (or in union with him), we will suffer. But it is not a suffering that will end with our eternal damnation because Christ has obeyed and suffered in our place. Instead, the mind we are called to have is that if we are in union with Christ, this suffering will result in the same result of Christ after suffering - this suffering shall be followed by GLORY! The Christian is called to have this mind - that though we suffer for a little while, we shall be exalted. We shall enter into glory. And Christ is our model of suffering --> glory, but he is also the guarantor that our suffering --> glory. Praise be to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!*
So suffer on, Christian. Glory awaits!
*These notes are the summary of one of the lectures from my Doctrine of Christ class, the final which I took this morning
Very low
These past few days, I’ve been feeling a lot more depressed, and when that happens, it’s usually a sign of my lack of trust in the Lord. My depression hits most often when things aren’t quite going the way I hoped. It leaves me in a place to wonder a million thoughts, “What am I doing here? Is this what I’m supposed to be doing? Why aren’t I more X or Y or Z? Where do I go from here? And how would I do that?” The list goes on and on and on…
But then I was doing the Romans study, and again, it was a nuisance. I’ve got over 40 pages of notes I need to study for Thursday and then another 70+ for Friday. But these words which I so despised gave me life.
“For if pwhile we were enemies qwe were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by rhis life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received sreconciliation.” Romans 5:10-11
It is in love that God has sent Jesus to die for me, and it is in love that he has reconciled me to himself. How does God relate to me, then? It is not as a God who lets random things happen to his people…it is as a God who loves me and has my salvation (sanctification and glorification) as the goal, proven by the fact that he crushed his son to be my justification! Everything that’s happening now…he’s allowing it for my salvation. Everything that will happen, he’s allowing it for my salvation.
Lord, help me to believe this. I don’t need you to take away these uncertainties - I don’t need you to remove these difficulties. What I need is that you remind me that you’re after my salvation…help me to achieve it. I also need to know that in all of this uncertainty and difficulty, that you love me and you’re with me. Help me to respond with joy and trust, not with bitterness, depression, and indifference.
When I hear someone mention Paper Week
I’m like
I've forgotten how to use my legs due to sitting all day reading and writing.
Same old, still new.
I was always a little upset at walking away from doing devotions with the same old message of "trust in the LORD". There was nothing new or novel about it...but it finally hit me today. Maybe the reason why I'm told to trust in God so often is because God knew it would be the thing that I always fail to do...
When I realize how trapped I am in my own sinfulness without Christ
too bad my sin isn't nearly as cute as this...
HERE COME FINAL PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, AND EXAMS!
How people feel the first time they visit Westminster...
HAHAHAHA PURE GENIUS
"How beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pinks and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smear of dirt."
Morning at Antibes, Claude Monet
I want to see that brilliant Mediterranean blue with my own eyes. Someday...someday.
“Joseph didn’t punish them, he rescued them - he brought God’s special family to live safely with him in Egypt. One day, God would send another Prince, a young Prince whose heart would break. Like Joseph, he would leave his home and his Father. His brothers would hate him and want him dead. He would be sold for pieces of silver. He would be punished even though he had done nothing wrong. But God would use everything that happened to this young Prince - even the bad things - to do something good: to forgive the sins of the whole world.” Sally Lloyd-Jones’ “The Jesus Storybook Bible”
Love it!
