Let's stop pretending -- no matter how good we think we are, we are all sinners -- as Paul tells us our throats, tongues, lips, and mouths convict us. Even if no one heard it, what words have you spoken or thought need to be forgiven?
From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest –seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.
~John Piper~
The history of religion would say a man is out seeking God -- therefore religion, in general, must be man's search for God. The Bible says it isn't. Man hasn't found out very much about God on his own -- the reason: Because he's been going in the wrong direction -- away from God.
“Now I should like to know whether your soul, tired of its own righteousness, is learning to be revived by and to trust in the righteousness of Christ.”
~Martin Luther~
There are millions of men and women with an understanding of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, who are still not willing to receive and commit themselves to Him whom the very angels and stars and rivers receive. A. W. Tozer
My brethren! We have rejected Him from our lives because we must have our own way. But until Jesus Christ is sincerely received, there can be no knowledge of salvation, nor any understanding of the things of God. A. W. Tozer
The little, selfish, sinful man rejects the Son of God. While he is still enumerating the things he deserves, the Son of God stands outside. My brethren, I repeat: this is the great tragedy of mankind! A. W. Tozer
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light. ~John Calvin~
Jesus is my best friend, HE is in my thoughts first every morning, I speak to HIM throughout my day in prayer and try my best to deepen my relationship with HIM daily... I go to HIM as I prepare to rest at night in Gratefulness. Jesus has never let me down...
There are two factors when it comes to the church, the natural, and the Spiritual. You must choose how you will see. Through the eyes of God is the spiritual and through your own is the natural.
Don't give up, Don't give in, Rather give it all you got to the Lord!
ASK YOUR SELF ARE YOU WILLING. ARE YOU CALLED? THEN WHY NOT TODAY? WHATS STOPPING YOU?
Apathy is Satan's most powerful weapon!
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God has called and is calling you for His purpose, for the furtherance of the Gospel.
So often we think that God is only at church, or only interested in Christians, or supports only an American agenda. God is as interested in your son or daughter's salvation as He is in the salvation of a drug dealer in Colombia, a prostitute in Paris, or a child with AIDS in Africa. God doesn't have boundaries and no one is a waste of time or effort for God.
"God is God and nothing but God is God." –– William Desmond
“… we cannot look on personal holiness, or good works, as properly federal and conditional means of obtaining the possession of heaven, though we own they are necessary to make us meet for it.” — Edward Fisher, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, 376. “The journey of Christ to Jerusalem led to the journey of his gospel to the nations, and to us. Now we are on a journey to bring that same gospel to others.” — Sinclair B. Ferguson, To Seek and to Save 147.
“[Justification] is the article on which the church stands or falls because it's the article on which I stand or fall and the article on which you stand or fall.” — R. C. Sproul, Luther and the Reformation, 99.
Will you exchange the comforts of this world for the glory of the next? The things of this world will pass away, but the love of the Lord will last forever. –– Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 71.
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