One of the things I have learned from the past months is that God works in His own perfect time. His timing is perfect. God makes no mistakes. There is no flaw in His schedule. Every affliction, every trial, every…
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
I’ve always prayed for His glory. But this time, I took my mind totally off myself, the world’s needs and even the needs of the church, and just prayed about His glory alone as He works through us and His bride. I prayed about everything in accordance to His perspective.
As I was praying today, the Lord spoke to me about my struggle in sanctification. He made me realize that I was the one making my problems more intense.
Joy in God is… to live Coram Deo, before the face of God. Delighting in my King, and He in me. To be my Beloved’s and the dear Beloved mine.
Today, I was just reminded by the Lord of His divine sovereignty. Its amazing how our minds can become dull from such an amazing reality! I’ve read about His sovereignty so many times and I believe it with all my heart. But it still strikes me hard every time I get a glimpse of it! Ah, how wonderfully deep and unfathomable is the character of our God!
A few weeks before the year 2010 arrived I resolved to read my Bible with focus and discipline, with delight and eagerness. It has been 6 months since that time that I began reading the Word of God systematically, and I have been immensely blessed. I cannot put into justified words my indebtedness to such inexpressible grace. What a joy it is to be blessed able to read the Word of God. And yet what are we but vile sinners worthy of Hell? Still in Christ, we are counted more precious than sparrows, more precious than the lilies of the field though we are but dust.
In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
You are my God, my light,
my sovereign delight.
My treasure, my peace,
my never-ending bliss.
Dear God,
Of late, my heart has wandered far from where it once was in it’s affections towards You. In my life of holiness and in my profession of faith in Christ, I am utterly in shame. Shamed for my…
“How then can man be in the right before God?
How can he who is born of a woman be pure?”
I know that the Lord is sovereign and all powerful. I know that every utterance from Him does not return empty. I know that no event happens on His universe without His consent or foreknowledge because He has ordained them in accordance to His pleasure and will.
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
For…
“We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.”
Give me a man saved from the depths of the horrors of Hell and the fierceness of the Wrath of God… He knows what I mean when I speak of the all sufficiency of God in Christ Jesus for joy, for peace, for strength. He knows what it means to stand still in heavenly bliss in the midst of heart-wrenching pain.
Whispers and rumors, a commotion in the holy sanctuary
A powerful knock shook heaven’s ancient doors
None has ever done that, angels rush towards the entrance
Hoping to see the One, or at least get a small glance
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways.
We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s Word, but by the open statement of the truth…
“The sparrows and squirrels do not labor
Yet your Father in heaven feeds them daily.
They live only today, but you will live for all eternity.
Are you not worth much more than sparrows?
Why envy such creatures,
When you have been redeemed beyond measure!
Man, the most wicked, became the most privileged
Shouldn’t your salvation be enough?
Or do you need more ego to keep you up?
You of little faith! Repent and rise from your tomb
And start looking at what’s ahead of you”
Oh, what a wonder. He knows us, dies for us, and He has again for us!
“…what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him?”—Psalm 8:4
A short poem on Solus Christus.
If you are a genuine Christian who has been regenerate, you are…
In the midst of trouble,
and in the midst of pain,
even at times when aches
subtle, with our joys inflamed
We must remember that
in every moment gone,
in the darkest of nights,
in the brightest of days
we are nothing but lost
condemned apart from His
mighty, sovereign grace.
“Jesus answered them,
‘I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name bear witness about Me, but you do not believe because you are not part of My flock. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and the follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.’”
—John 19:25-30
A repentant heart, a tender heart that is endeared to the Lord. I think that is what we desperately need, what I desperately need. I should not at all be that surprised that in my previous battles with sin I have been repeatedly met with failures for I had a heart that is estranged from my dear Beloved, estranged and emptied of the heavenly. It shouldn’t be a surprise that my mind’s attention and my heart’s affection is easily captivated by so many things. What opposition can temptations meet in a heart that clings so little to it’s Savior?
Jeremiah, in his despair and frailty, complained to God about the prosperity of the wicked. He questions God’s justice and argues that the wicked should perish.
What a tremendous blessing it is to have the living word of the living God in my hands. Yet who am I but a bucket of dust before him? Failing and falling each moment? Yet still not a single promise from that blessed Word will ever be blotted out.