Ooopss - forgot I was posting them all. I'm up to no. 10 of 'Godcrastination' at the moment. I'll be posting them over the next few days. :)
This is number 2!
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“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases…Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death, jealousy as fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.”
Songs of Solomon 8:4, 6-7 (ESV)
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“If the kingdom is ever to come to our Lord–and come it will–it never will come through a few ministers, missionaries, or evangelists preaching the Gospel. It must come through everyone one of you preaching it, in the shop and by the fireside, when walking abroad and when sitting in the chamber. You must all of you be always endeavoring to “save some.” . . . Make this your resolve, every one of you, that if men perish they shall not perish for lack of your prayers, not for want of your earnest and loving instructions. God give you grace, each one of you, to resolve by all means to save some, and then to carry out your resolution!”
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner, 248-49.
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"The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.
Matthew Henry" ~ Unconfusing
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“Legally pronounced just and claimed by God, engrafted into his Son, believers bear fruit that is not the result of their imitation of Christ’s life but of their being incorporated into Christ and his eschatological resurrection-life in the Spirit.”
— Michael Horton
The Christian Faith
(Grand Rapids, Mi.: Zondervan, 2011), 591
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19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon,
so that I too may be cheered by news of you.
20 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.
21 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
22 But you know Timothy’s proven worth,
how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me,
24 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.
- Philippians 2:19-24
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“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” - Psalm 119:103 :D
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' For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?
So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:9-12
Teach me to number my days, my hours, that each moment may be worthy of a life lived unto Christ.' ~Unconfusing.
What would we do differently if we knew we were not going to wake up the next morning?
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Oh ... and look what else I found. :D
'Another sign you’re growing in grace. You’ve actually read Nahum and Obadiah. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You catch people “doing it right” in a 3 to 1 ratio to “doing it wrong”. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You don’t try to take 23 items through the 10 item speed check out line at Publix. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You’re in your seat in the worship center 7 minutes early to pray for the service. Another sign you’re growing in grace. On a 2-lane-becoming-1 road, you don’t speed up just to jet around 3 extra cars. Another sign you’re growing in grace. Your repentances come quicker with less pouting, excuses and vain promises. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You throw less pity-parties, because you go to Jesus quicker than to self-contempt. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You talk about your justification 10 times more than your victimization. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You quote Jesus more than you quote Tim Keller.
A sign you’re growing in grace is a commitment to give your spouse focused, unrushed attention at the END of the day. A sign you’re growing in grace is just grabbing a brownie without looking for the biggest or best crust-edged brownie. A sign you’re growing in grace is when you use less labels to dismiss people or marginalize their comments. A sign you’re growing in grace is still being gracious to telemarketers when they call your protected phone number. A sign you’re growing in grace is a commitment to pray for people you’d really rather gossip about. A sign you’re growing in grace is not texting or reading emails on your pda while driving, with or without kids.
Another sign you’re growing in grace. You no longer simply assume if you can pay for something you really can afford it. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You recognize the subtle ways you’re living justification by sanctification. Another sign you’re growing in grace. Your spouse and children are the first to notice the signs. Another sign you’re growing in grace. You get sucker-punched by condemnation for sin less often, but convicted much more.
A sign you’re growing in grace. You don’t use your car horn to curse bad drivers, but appropriately caution & warn them. A sign you’re growing in grace. The gospel still astonishes & humbles you. It’s not just cliche or the name of your tribe. A sign you’re growing in grace. If you USED to be a Dispensationalist, you’re not cynical about those who still are. A sign you’re growing in grace. If you USED to be a Charismatic, you don’t atrophy into dead or dry orthodoxy. A sign you’re growing in grace. If you’re “finally” Reformed, you don’t confuse knowledge with spirituality. A sign you’re growing in grace. You realize that Presbyterian and Reformed types are .07% of the entire Body of Christ. A sign you’re growing in grace. The more you learn about Jesus & the gospel the more you realize how little YOU know.'
Though the spouse and children signs may be a little bit irrelevant to me lol...
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46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.” 47 So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
48 And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
—Numbers 16:46-48 (I know the chapter I'm checking out tonight - not very familiar with this particular story...)
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“A man does not possess Christ by faith in the way he possesses money in his cupboard or deeds of land, which he takes for granted that he has and yet perhaps never looks at once in a year. No; Christ is as meat that a man feeds on, chews, and digests, and whose stomach works on continually.
Faith is not a sleeping thing, nor merely not doubting that Christ is mine, but a continual active whetting of my thoughts on Christ as mine. It is living on Him and in Him.”
— Thomas Goodwin
A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin, ed. Joel Beeke and Mark Jones
(Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2009), 79
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2xOvKFFz4&feature=player_embedded
(The World's most Typical Person by National Geographic)
Interesting. Not as 'spiritual' as most but worth a glance
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http://calebyap.tumblr.com/post/3620975755/this-young-boy-is-amazing-he-preaches-it-like-he
This one was really exciting. Though a friend later pointed out to me that it was probably scripted I still have massive amounts of respect for the kid that memorised it - as well as the person who would have written it originally!
I liked it. Watch it - check it out even if you don't read anything else!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9dpmp_-TY0&feature=player_embedded
Also - this is what it's like when a community receives the new testemant for the first time. Amazing. They have such reverence for the Bible
'A lady has memorised several of the books, and when you're just talking to her she will sometimes recite three, four, five verses in a row.' :) If only we had the same amount of respect for it as they do.
Enjoy!!!
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