For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. - 1 Timothy 2:5-6
"Simon, Simon, look out. Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed that your faith may not fail." – Luke 22:31-32
In their weakness, the Lord Jesus prays for his children.
"If it be not strong upon thy heart to practise what thou readest, to what end does thou read? To increase thy own condemnation?" – Thomas Brook, "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices"
IOW, to read more for knowledge's sake rather than for practice *increases* condemnation.
"The King of love my shepherd is
Whose goodness faileth never
I nothing lack if I am His
And He is mine forever."
"The King of Love My Shepherd Is," Henry Williams (1868)
“And what is the rising of the new man? It is hearty joy in God through Christ, and a desire and love for living in all good works for God’s sake.” – Bavinck, “Wonderful Works”
“What is the dying of the old man? It is a hearty sorrow that we have by our sins provoked God’s wrath and in which we more and more hate those sins and flee from this….”
"Because Christ has come, our job is not to tell the unholy and unqualified, 'Keep out, lest you die.' It is to tell them come to Christ, for he has died." – Iain Duguid, on Numbers 3.
"Legalism is a peculiar kind of submission to God's law, something that no longer feels the personal divine touch in the rule it submits to." – Geerhardus Vos
“The greatest earthly monarch would soon be poor if he was to give a little (though but a little) to all his subjects.
But Jesus has unsearchable, inexhaustible riches of grace to bestow.”
—John Newton, The Works of John Newton (Carlisle, PA: @BannerofTruth, 1988), 2: 194-195.
“Because the Spirit possesses all things in the infinite treasury of God’s being, the Spirit is able to share all things with God’s people, indeed to fill them up ‘with all the fullness of God’ (Eph. 3:19).” – Scott Swain, “The Trinity”
@gavinortlund A helpful reminder to me even as it relates to personal spiritual disciplines. Rather than assume my effort & time given to PSDs will produce love, I need to be wholly dependent upon God in prayer..pleading w/ him to produce in me a love for Himself through them. Thanks, brother!
Two emotions in hearing of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
First, relief. Something deeply crooked has been made straight.
Second, hope. Progress can be made. It's an encouragement to keep pushing forward for justice.