Monday, February 10, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
God's mercy Is greater Than The Mess You Make
“It
is certain that God blesses believers precisely and invariably by
blessing to them something of his truth and that misbelief as such is in
its own nature spiritually barren and destructive.
“Yet anyone who deals with souls will again and again be amazed at the gracious generosity with which God blesses to needy ones what looks to us like a very tiny needle of truth hidden amid whole haystacks of mental error. . . .
“Every Christian without exception experiences far more in the way of mercy and help than the quality of his notions warrants.”
—J. I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit, 2d ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 21-22.
Ain't that the truth! Thank God for his mercy which is abundant and endures forever. How little each day do we think about or realize how much of what happened that day is because of God's mercy.
“Yet anyone who deals with souls will again and again be amazed at the gracious generosity with which God blesses to needy ones what looks to us like a very tiny needle of truth hidden amid whole haystacks of mental error. . . .
“Every Christian without exception experiences far more in the way of mercy and help than the quality of his notions warrants.”
—J. I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit, 2d ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 21-22.
Ain't that the truth! Thank God for his mercy which is abundant and endures forever. How little each day do we think about or realize how much of what happened that day is because of God's mercy.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
C. S. Lewis, 'On Forgiveness'
To be
a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven
the inexcusable in you. This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to
forgive a single person great injury. But to forgive the incessant
provocations of daily life--to keep on forgiving the bossy
mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish
daughter, the deceitful son--how can we do it? Only, I think, by
remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say our prayers
each night 'forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass
against us.' We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse is
to refuse God's mercy for ourselves.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
How Did You Become A Christian?
The
thought struck me, How did you come to be a Christian? I sought the
Lord. But how did you come to seek the Lord? The truth flashed across my
mind in a moment—I should not have sought him unless there had been
some previous influence in my mind to make me seek him. I prayed,
thought I, but then I asked myself, How came I to pray? I was induced to
pray by reading the Scriptures. How came I to read the Scriptures? I did read them, but what led me to do so?
Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that he was the Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this my constant confession, “I ascribe my change wholly to God.”
--Charles Spurgeon, as quoted in Dave Harvey, Am I Called? The Summons to Pastoral Ministry (Crossway, 2012), 38
Has the whole doctrine of grace opened up to you? Can you make the confession Spurgeon made? "I ascribe my change wholly to God" This is the beauty of the Lord's salvation.
Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that he was the Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this my constant confession, “I ascribe my change wholly to God.”
--Charles Spurgeon, as quoted in Dave Harvey, Am I Called? The Summons to Pastoral Ministry (Crossway, 2012), 38
Has the whole doctrine of grace opened up to you? Can you make the confession Spurgeon made? "I ascribe my change wholly to God" This is the beauty of the Lord's salvation.
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