The Inexhaustibility of the Word of God
The best compositions of men are soon exhausted; they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance, and you think you could hear them a hundred times over; but you could not: you soon find them wearisome. Very speedily a man eats too much honey: even children at length are cloyed with sweets. All human books grow stale after a time; but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases, while the more you know of it the less you think you know. The Book grows upon you: as you dive into its depths you have a fuller perception of the infinity which remains unexplored. You are still sighing to enjoy more of that which it is your bliss to taste.
~ Spurgeon
My God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 10:29).
What even!! these words actually blow my mind. Joy incomprehensible; thank God He gives me the Spirit to speak for me, for I have no words for this delight!!!! #Galatians4 #GodAdopts (Taken with instagram)
Such a good sermon.
When you’re reading and studying the bible, be so careful. Make sure that when you read something, you do it. When you’re convicted about something, you better do something about it. Because if you don’t the next time it’ll be easier to study the Word of God, be convicted, and do nothing about it. Then pretty soon it becomes a habit to hear the word of God, be convicted by something, and do nothing about it. It’s a dangerous habit to get into.
~ Francis Chan.
what truth.
love that tumblr has become a timeline of all the glorious truths God has taught me! What a blessing I can share these truths with others :) (Taken with instagram)
At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer’s love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus Himself.
Matthew 9:37-38 (Taken with instagram)
An understanding of the reality of our sins and God’s just demand for judgement “multiplies the mercies and exponentialises the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Redeemer.
The Self Sufficiency of God
Almighty God, just because He is almighty, needs no support. The picture of a nervous, ingratiating God fawning over men to win their favor is not a pleasant one; yet if we look at the popular conception of God that is precisely what we see.
Twentieth-century Christianity has put God on charity. So lofty is our opinion of ourselves that we find it quite easy, not to say enjoyable, to believe that we are necessary to God.
But the truth is that God is not greater for our being, nor would He be less if we did not exist. That we do exist is altogether of God’s free determination, not by our desert nor by divine necessity. Probably the hardest thought of all for our natural egotism to entertain is that God does not need our help.
We commonly represent Him as a busy, eager, somewhat frustrated Father hurrying about seeking help to carry out His benevolent plan to bring peace and salvation to the world
Too many missionary appeals are based upon this fancied frustration of Almighty God. An effective speaker can easily excite pity in his hearers, not only for the heathen but for the God who has tried so hard and so long to save them and has failed for want of support.
I fear that thousands of young persons enter Christian service from no higher motive than to help deliver God from the embarrassing situation His love has gotten Him into and His limited abilities seem unable to get Him out of.
A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
I’m going to memorise this. It blew my mind with the reality of this terrible truth, and convicted me to think about how I see the self-sufficiency of God.
best love letter ever written. #SongOfSolomon (Taken with instagram)
Seek God’s face evermore; His favour and steadfast lovingkindness; His smiling countenance, which beholds the upright; His gracious presence, and communion with Him; which is always desirable, ever to be sought after, and will be eternally and without interruption enjoyed in another world; our heavenly home. #Psalm105 (Taken with instagram)
The art of God is also within man:
“But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of Your Hand.” (Isaiah 64:8)
And what a work of art humans are.
The infinite value of each human soul is not a Christian doctrine. God did not die for man because of some value he perceived in him. The value of each human soul considered simply in itself, out of relation to God, is zero. As St Paul writes, to have died for valuable men would have been not divine but merely heroic; but God died for sinners. He loved us not because we were lovable, but because he is Love.
Missions is calling the world to do what they were created to do, namely, to enjoy making much of God forever. If missions does not reach a people with the gospel of the glory of God in the face of Christ, God will be dishonored and the people will be miserable—forever. Therefore we are driven by two motives (which turn out to be one): the glory of God, and the good of man. They are one because praise to God is the consummation of pleasure in God.
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