February 2012
26 posts
“The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Billions Of Pieces (via kari-shma)
“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via girlwithoutwings)
“As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed in a...”
– Ecclesiastes 11:5
“God comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble...”
– 2 Cor 1:4
“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
or with the breadth...”
– Isaiah 40:12
“Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go...”
– Psalms 139:7-10
“Christ is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he...”
– Hebrews 7:25
“Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever”
– Hebrews 13:8
Still
Still he blesses those on whom he sets his love in a way that humbles them, so that all the glory may be his alone. Still he hates the sins if his people, and uses all kinds of inward and outward pains and griefs to wean their hearts from compromise and disobedience. Still he seeks the fellowship of his people, and sends them both sorrows and joys in order to detach their love from other things...
“The plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all...”
– Psalm 33:11
“The Scripture cannot be broken”
– John 10:35
“Your Word, O Lord, is eternal; it s stands from in the heavens… All your...”
– Psalm 119: 89, 151-152
“All flesh is grass… the grass withers… But the word of our God will...”
– Isaiah 40:6
“When I came to you, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in...”
– 1 Cor 2:1-5 RSV
Illumination
To the apostles, he testified by revealing and inspiring. To the rest of us, down the ages, he testifies by illuminating: opening blinded eyes, restoring spiritual vision, enabling sinners to see that the gospel is indeed God’s truth, and Scripture is indeed God’s Word, and Christ is indeed God’s Son.
- “Knowing God” by J. I. Packer
“No-one can ee the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
– John 3:3
“We have received… the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what...”
– 1 Cor 2:9-13
the promise of the Holy Spirit
‘I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears’ (that is, he would make known to them all that Christ would instruct him to tell them, just as Christ has made known to them all that the Father had instructed him to they’ll them...
the burden of knowing
“How can you get very far,
If you don’t know Who You Are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don’t know What you’ve Got?
And if you don’t know Which To Do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you’ll have when you are through
Is just a mess without a clue
Of all the best that can come true
If you know What and Which and Who.”
(Hoff, B., The Tao of Pooh, 1982 p58)
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the...”
– John 12:49-50
“The Counsellor… will teach you all things and will remind you of...”
– John 14:26
the great commission
When Christ left the world, He committed his cause to his disciples. ‘Ye… Shall bear witness,’ he told them in the upper room (John 15:27 KJV). ‘You will be my witnesses… To the ends of the earth,’ were his parting words to them at the Mount of Olives, before he ascended (Acts 1:8).
January 2012
33 posts
