Psalm 37:4-5 NLT
[4] Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires. [5] Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you. …
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“Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.
Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees!”
Psalms 119:2, 5 NLT https://t.co/i9UJPvqk6z
“There is a twilight zone in our own hearts that we ourselves cannot see. This is a very good thing. The way we are seen and understood by others is different from the way we see and understand ourselves.” -Henri Nouwen
“For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.”
Galatians 5:13 NLT https://t.co/275bH83mD2
“My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Galatians 2:20 NLT https://t.co/At2JQDMiSs
“‘What are we going to make of Christ?’ There is no question of what we can make of him, it is entirely a question of what he intends to make of us. You must except or reject the story [of his resurrection].“ -C.S. Lewis
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable fact at the same time that it is the most intellectually resisted.” -Malcom’s Muggeridge Thank you, God, for your incredible gift of Good Friday!! ✝️
Lenten thought: “God reveals himself in Jesus as the one who waits for our response. Precisely in that waiting the intensity of God‘s love is revealed to us. If God forced us to love, we would not really be lovers.“ -Henri Nouwen
Lenten thought: “Sin is such a pain to God, it saddens him so much, that he would himself be tortured and bodily die so that he might thereby wipe out a person’s sin. For God feels more pain over our sin and it gives him more grief than his own torture and death.” -Martin Luther
“It is not just a question of giving up sin, but of giving up my natural independence and self-assertiveness, and this is where the battle has to be fought ... Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.” O. Chambers
“The purpose of Lent is not to escape the conscience, but to create a healthy hatred for evil, a heartfelt contrition for sin, and a passionately felt need for grace.” Edna Hong