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Your daily David Powlison wisdom:
"One of the joys of biblical ministry comes when you are able to help turn on the lights in another person’s dark room. People usually don’t see their desires as lusts. Our souls awaken as the light of God’s analytic gaze disturbs our ignorance and self-deceit. Souls are then comforted and cured by the love that shed substitutionary blood to purchase the inexpressible gift.”
When people push back against the political or moral teachings that flow from Christianity—say, on issues like life, marriage, or justice—they often justify their opposition in political or ethical terms, but that’s not the real source of their discomfort. The real problem isn’t that they find Christian ethics politically inconvenient or morally restrictive; it’s that they reject the authority of Christ himself.
In short: political disagreement is often a smokescreen for spiritual rebellion. The rejection of Christian ethics is ultimately a rejection of Christ’s lordship, not merely a difference of political philosophy or moral opinion.
RC Sproul in his commentary on the gospel of John:
"It has been said that the church in the United States of America has been placed on a reservation. We're still allowed to exist; we're still allowed to practice our faith; we're still allowed to pray in our churches. But we are tacitly forbidden from moving off the reservation and into the public square to make public proclamations of faith. For instance, if a Christian is asked to pray at a public event and then prays in Jesus' name, he is almost certain to be excoriated for having the audacity to pray publicly in the name of Christ. We're simply not allowed to do that today.
But I have noticed that it isn't just secularists who howl when a Christian wanders off the reservation and proclaims the gospel in the public square. Other Christians also make a fuss. Why? Because when some Christians draw the ire of secular society, everyone who enjoys peace on the reservation becomes frightened that they will become targets of the enemy. Many who claim the name of Christ would rather live peacefully on the reservation than disturb the world with the good news."
Think about how much of your life takes place in your mind—your hopes, your fears, your desires, your plans. Got intends all of that to be shaped by the gospel.
- Mike Bullmore
Daily David Powlison Wisdom: "The Bible is what someone else is thinking about us, what someone else is doing in us and through us."
The Bible is no mere book. It's a living and active word. It gets inside you and changes you in ways you could not imagine and would never dare to dream.
"The most miserable person in the world is the half committed Christian; just enough into God to be miserable in the world, but just enough into the world to be miserable in God."
-Charles Spurgeon