Archive for May, 2008
May 14, 2008 at 10:21 pm · Filed under For Fun, Personal, Uncategorized
1. To improve my vocabulary
2. To increase in my discipline to finish something to the end
3. To see different points of view
4. To understand how God is working in other people’s lives
5. To keep myself from other sinful activities
6. To increase my arsenal of examples when writing or speaking
7. To better my theology from those who know a whole lot more than me
8. To humble myself in knowing I have no knowledge to boast upon.
9. To be more satisfied in God by hearing his word through others.
May 12, 2008 at 9:22 pm · Filed under Book Review, John Piper, Romans
Woe to us if we speak of our existence, or our being, for its own sake. God has given us existence. It is a great wonder, full of trembling and awe. We exist by him, through him, and for him (Rom. 11:36). The ultimate and greatest good of the gospel is not self-admiration or self-exaltation, but being able to see the glory of God without disintegrating, and being able to delight in the glory of Christ with the very delight of God the Father for his own Son, and being able to do visible Christ-exalting deeds that flow from this delight. So being like God is the ground of seeing God for who he is, and this seeing is the ground of savoring and delighting in the glory of God with the very delight of God, which then overflows with visible displays of God’s glory.
John Piper in “God is the Gospel” pg. 162
May 8, 2008 at 3:08 pm · Filed under Andrew Case, Biblical Manhood, Commentary, Jude, Mark, Uncategorized
The council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has recently done an interview Andrew Case about his new book “Water of the Word”. It encourages men to pray for their future wife:
Perseverance on the narrow road is a miracle of grace. I don’t want “the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things” to enter in and choke the Word in my wife before or after I meet her (Mark 4:19). God must keep her in the love of Christ (Jude 1:1), and I am confident that He uses prayer as a means to that end. I am keenly aware of the propensity within my own heart that Robert Robinson described in song: “Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it-prone to leave the God I love.” Why not pray for her, as I pray for myself, that He would bind her wandering heart to Himself?
I want to read this book :). It is a great reminder to have prayer in my life and not just prayers for myself, but also for my future wife.
May 6, 2008 at 6:53 pm · Filed under Colossians, Commentary, Genesis
Today I when I woke up, I lingered. I stared at the ceiling pondering how tired I was and how I could use another hour of sleep. I lingered. I instantly put on hold my daily morning duties of meeting God and doing my devotions. I lingered in my sin.
The previous morning I had read about Lot and his lingering to God’s urgent commands:
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.
Genesis 19:15,16
God is telling Lot to hurry or be dead. To wake up and run or be swept away by the wrath that God was going to unleash on the sinful city. But what did Lot do? He lingered. This is much how we linger in our sins. We linger around in things that distract us from God.
How did God respond? He rescued Lot from his lingering. The LORD had mercy on him. In the same way, the LORD has mercy on us, who are believers. He rescues us from our sin. He rescues us through his son Jesus Christ who is propitiation for our sins.
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13,14
Let us thank God for His everlasting mercy and praise HIm for rescuing us from the wrath we deserve.
