Elias E. Colunga

Proverbs 4:7 🇺🇲

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Those who look to idols become like them (Psa 135:15-18).
Those who look to the Lord are radiant (Psa 34:5).
You will become like whatever you fix your gaze upon.

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

The glass is first emptied before you pour in wine. God first empties man of himself, before he pours in the precious wine of his grace.

—Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, Pg. 42

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

“A Christian’s falling does not have to be so blatant as to involve murder or adultery. It can be the kind of inward falling (leaving your first love) that no one but Christ notices.”

—Joel R. Beeke, The Lectio Continua | Expository Commentary on the NT: Revelation, Pg. 70

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

It is the glory of pagan morality that it can hide and cover men’s lusts and passions.

But the glory of Christianity lies in this, that it can, not hide, but destroy and really mortify the lusts and passions.

—Puritan John Flavel

[Creeds & Confessions @CreedConfession]

A Christian ought to be afraid to be afraid.

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

Continue to practice your devotions habitually ... Do not neglect this and do it to the best of your ability. Read the Word, even if you neither have the least desire to do so.

—Wilhelmus à Brakel

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.” Isaiah 59:2

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

Absolutely.

[Creeds & Confessions @CreedConfession]

Why do you exist?

[Thug Life Calvin🌷 @ThugLifeCalvin]

O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer
Gracious Savior of my ruined life
My guilt and cross laid on Your shoulders
In my place You suffered bled and died
You rose, the grave and death are conquered
You broke my bonds of sin and shame
You rose, the grave and death are conquered
You broke my bonds of sin and shame
O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer
May all my days bring glory to Your Name

[Mike Riccardi @MikeRiccardi_]

It amazes me how often non-Calvinists accuse Calvinists of pride simply for believing that God has chosen them (and not others) for salvation.

Calvinist teaching couldn’t be more explicit: divine election is unconditional. God’s choice to save some and not others is not grounded in anything in or about the sinner.

His choice was made when we “were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of [our] works”—nor even because of our faith—“but because of Him who calls” (Rom 9:11). God Himself is the ground of unconditional election. He predestined us to salvation “according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5).

Believing that God chose me and not my neighbor for salvation based on nothing in or about either of us is not prideful. It is the appropriately humiliating confession that there is nothing in or about me that would draw God to choose me—that the only way I’d ever be saved is by an exercise of God’s sheer grace. It makes no comment on why God did not choose someone else, except that it was His free and sovereign pleasure not to do so.