Eshet Chayil

"Let love and faithfulness never leave you: bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart... Preserve sound judgement and discernment, do not let them out of your sight: they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck."...

[aslansjedi]

Today you will be with me in paradise, pen on paper, 2026.

Okay, okay, to explain: (it's probably self explanatory, but I've got to vent, guys)

These are the hands of God and Adam from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, but now with Jesus on the cross (right) with the thief next to him (left).

In the Sistine Chapel, God is a moment away from bringing Adam to life. Here, the thief knows that death is inevitable—and yet, there is Jesus, bringing life; a life stronger than death, a life that could only be brought by Him, restoring and completing the work that He started at the dawn of time. The great and powerful and impossible becomes simultaneously the smallest, almost unnoticeable gesture. A man on a cross. A few words spoken between two men who know they will die. BUT. This is God, God, and the very fact that He's there, on the cross, human, is God stretching out his hand to where He can reach us, and bring us the life that we destroyed all the way back in the Garden of Eden.

[thesovereignword]

I think I can speak for every other Christian blogger on here when I say:

This blog may make it look like everything is perfect, but I war with my flesh and stumble into sin so often. I am deeply, deeply flawed and have many things I’m still working on overcoming. I struggle with sin daily.

One of the things I always feared in having a Christian blog was unintentionally creating a “perfect Christian” image.

I’m anything but.

[topaz-and-turquoise]

For every thing you may see me call out through posting or reblogging here, know that I am fully aware that I am just as sinful as those people and I have my own crap that I have to fight and that I don't win every battle (I lose a lot of them daily) and I have hurt others and broken God's heart and I am in need of grace and mercy and forgiveness all day every day. I am so grateful to be a child of the God who loves and forgives and disciplines and helps to grow, and I'm so glad that he wants the same for you, too.

[peartreetheft-deactivated202407]

"Wow, you religious types are very dogmatic. Who are you to say what or who God is? You can't put God in a box!"

Unlike New Age or "spiritual" types who just make stuff up, everything that I say about God is (or should be) weighed against over 3000 years of God's self-revelation and 2,000 years of interpretation of that revelation by the infallible teaching authority of a Church he founded. You can't put God in a box, but you can say God loves us enough to tell us something about himself, that once said, can't be contradicted.

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

It’s like, we’re not trying to define God. He defined Himself. We’re just telling you what He said

[joan-frommars]

besties is the parallel between “salt and light” and “taste and see” something that everyone knows about already or is this new and cool info to you like it is to me ?

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Emotional about how important friendships are in the Bible.

"Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay."

"Behold, I am with you heart and soul."

Paul weeping with the believers in Acts.

There's such love, such loyalty, woven into Scripture.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Tell me about God suffering.

Tell me about the God who knew that we would break his heart, yet chose to create us anyway. Who saw Adam, fashioned in his own image, and said “It is very good.”

Tell me about the God who said, “my heart, my bowels, my inner parts weep like a lyre for the suffering of my people.” Who watched his loved ones worship idols and fall into sin, who knew all the blackest desires of their hearts. Who faithfully wounded them, sent them into exile, let them die, and said “How can I give you up, O Ephraim? My heart recoils within me.”

Tell me about a God who fashioned us from dust in the full knowledge that in order to keep us, he would see his son scourged and dying on the cross. Who knew that one day he would turn his face away. About a Jesus who said, “here am I, send me.” Who set his face towards Golgotha even in the halls of eternity.

Tell me about a God who became small and frail. Who endured headaches and hangnails and long nights without sleep. Who was anxious and afraid, embarrassed and misunderstood. Who was tempted. Who saw his friends sad and sick and dying. Who wept with the sound of a horse before battle.

Tell me about Jesus weeping and sweating blood in Gethsemane. Tell me about the cross. Tell me about “my God, my God, why have you forsaken me” and the agony of unanswered prayer.

Tell me about the Father and the Spirit, cut off from the Son for the first time in history. The Son, begotten and abandoned. The Spirit, proceeding from nowhere. Tell me about the death of one you have loved from eternity.

Tell me about the Spirit, who intercedes for us before the Father in groans too deep for words. Who understands our deepest pains that well.

People say that to love at all is to suffer, but that isn’t true. God loved and was loved in perfect Trinity before he created us. To love what is fallen is to suffer.

Tell me about the God who chose suffering.

@citrussunrises

[worshipgifs]

The Morning After Relapse by Christina Hopp

[kweza-deactivated20221020]

saving yourself for marriage isn't a "woman" thing. it's a "every professing christian" thing. christian men, you're not off the hook on this one.

[proverbs3321]

[thetranslucentwallaby]

“The heart wants what the heart wants.”

the heart longs to be loved

it cries out to be needed

it breaks to be desired

it aches to be wanted

and when it is found, secured, collected

set in its place

within the heart of God

it is at home, for it is in Love Himself.

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

When Jesus died on the cross, the veil between the people and God in the temple literally, physically tore in two.

We don’t tear it ourselves. It didn’t tear partially when Jesus died so that we could continue to tear it work-by-work and hope that we’d bring it down completely one day.

Jesus said “It is finished.”

We don’t work for our salvation. Jesus paid it all, Jesus finished the work for all of time.

Our debt is paid completely and the veil is removed completely the moment we trust in Jesus’ sacrifice.

Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” —Acts 16: 30-31 (ESV)

Trust in Jesus’ perfect, completely sufficient sacrifice. Rest in his perfect provision.

Simply trust. It is finished.

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.” -Job 12:7-10 ESV

[joannadisciple-deactivated20210]

“This event in the Bible can be explained through a particular scientific phenomenon! That means we know what REALLY happened, and it wasn’t because of some sky daddy floating around in the sky!”

Why do people like this seem to operate under the assumption that Christians and Jews believe God is just some random, supernatural force who’s disconnected from the universe? That he’s just chilling there, making ~magic tricks~ happen without any possible natural explanation? You guys do realize we believe God created everything, right? He created the universe, which means that any incredible thing that happens and has a scientific explanation to go with it...is because it’s within God’s worldly design. People are really taking a look at a piece of art and declaring that the artist doesn’t exist just because they can determine the technique that went into the art.

[all-gods-children]

If you’re a new Christian and no one has told you this yet: Welcome home!! Welcome to your new family!! Welcome to the arms of a Savior whose love for you is so beyond our comprehension that we can hardly even explain it!! Welcome to grace without bounds!! The angels rejoiced the moment you came home, and we are rejoicing, too!! I can’t explain how happy I am that you’re here with us, and if you need anything, don’t hesitate to reach out! Welcome!! 

[andreagrace18]

A hot take: Rejecting the morals of Christianity because they are “old” and “traditional” does not make you intellectually superior. A moral idea or concept doesn’t lose its merit because of its antiquity. Similarly, newer moral ideas and concepts are not inherently better simply because they are new.

[customarycreate]

[proverbs3321]

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

God said to Moses, “I AM who I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 3:11-14