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Live!
Still, it’s what GOD had in mind all along, to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And GOD’s plan will deeply prosper through him.
Isaiah 53:10 The Message
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what you’ve done,
GOD bled his heart out for you because He loves you.
And He wants you to live.
Who Do You Have?
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot
Life with Pleasure is too silly to be of colossal importance.
Life with God is too important to be of colossal silliness.
When you stop breathing,
When your body fails you,
When Death has swept you away,
the question at hand wouldn’t be
Where will you go? or What next?
In the end, every human being would have to face the reality of life beyond Earth.
In the end, there will be no room for reasons or excuses.
In the end, the condition of Life will be measured by the absence or presence of a Person.
It is by these truths that I ask all of us the Question.
Who do you have with you?
He Started It
Man is not made godly because he chose to love God.
Man can be made godly because God loved him first.
Hymns from the Dungeon
Hope-bound faith is when you boast of what God can do
even if the world’s been throwing its bombs at you.
The One and The Only
His hand hath made this noble work which stands
His glorious handiwork not made by hands.
Who spake all things from nothing; and with ease
Can speak all things to nothing, if he please.
Whose little finger at his pleasure can
Out mete ten thousand worlds with half a span:
Whose might almighty can by half a looks
Root up the rocks and rock the hills by the roots.
~ Edward Taylor (poet)~
Who’s under the Spotlight?
Do you love the Cross because it makes much of you?
Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy an eternity of making much of God?
— John Piper
Tread Carefully
There is a thin line between religion and rebellion,
between religiosity and hypocrisy.
Choose
Even heaven is hell if somehow you were not there
~Disciple (band)~
Option A — Go and live in Heaven but be without God.
Option B — Go and live in an empty room but be with God.
Ctrl + Z
In our quest for immortal glory and glorious immortality,
we undo God from our lives as if He were a mistake,
only to end up much worse than we were before.
Grace Wins, Hands Down
Even at the face of oppression and death,
Christ still made every effort to say,
“Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.”
I Offer My Life to You
Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
— Romans 3:27-28 (NLT)
Reckless abandon trumps overconfident religiosity.
Worth Pondering…
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one
and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:26
…What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?
Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4
Our Desires is Our Undoing
One of the worst things that could ever happen to a man
is when God gives him over to his desires.
There are only two kinds of people in the end:
those who say to God, “Thy will be done,”
and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.”
— C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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