Saturday, July 28, 2012
Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and
deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled
the accounts. The good news of the gospel is NOT that good people get
good stuff. It's not that life is cyclical and that "what comes around
goes around." Rather, it's that the bad get the best, the worst inherit
the wealth, and the slave becomes a son (Rom.5:8).
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
if you know me. you know that i walk around a bit carelessly.
maybe a little too careless.
today as i was walking to the subway to go home from work,
i almost got hit by a car,
my co-worker gave a shout and pulled me towards the sidewalk.
she was pretty frightened but i was pretty nonchalant
and she was surprised and remarked at my calmness.
truthfully, i didn't think much of it.
i think that's when i realized i need to be more careful.
there are countless moments when im with friends, people, even visitors
and almost get ourselves run over.
i'm not afraid at moments like that.
thinking im superman or something.
that cars will stop and avoid me.
that God wont let a car hit me.
but must be alert.now.
maybe a little too careless.
today as i was walking to the subway to go home from work,
i almost got hit by a car,
my co-worker gave a shout and pulled me towards the sidewalk.
she was pretty frightened but i was pretty nonchalant
and she was surprised and remarked at my calmness.
truthfully, i didn't think much of it.
i think that's when i realized i need to be more careful.
there are countless moments when im with friends, people, even visitors
and almost get ourselves run over.
i'm not afraid at moments like that.
thinking im superman or something.
that cars will stop and avoid me.
that God wont let a car hit me.
but must be alert.now.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Jul
03
2012
"Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips . . ." —Isaiah 6:5
This experience of our attention being directed to our concentration of personal sin is true in everyone’s life, from the greatest of saints to the worst of sinners. When a person first begins climbing the ladder of experience, he might say, “I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong,” but the Spirit of God will point out some definite and specific thing to him. The effect of Isaiah’s vision of the holiness of the Lord was the directing of his attention to the fact that he was “a man of unclean lips.” “He touched my mouth with it, and said: ’Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged’ ” (Isaiah 6:7). The cleansing fire had to be applied where the sin had been concentrated.
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