Too often when we ask for “more” we are looking for quantity. Breadth. God is apt to answer with quality. Depth ultimately yields greater quantity anyway, so we actually get a two-fer from our generous Lord!
“I can’t develop as Jesus did unless He takes out of me that which was never in him.” -Oswald Chambers, God’s Workmanship Luke 9:23, Galatians 2:20 Indeed death is the door to life. New life. His life formed and shaped in me. #goodnews
Owning a dog reinforces the wisdom of Scripture as I watched Tucker eat his own vomit & poo today: “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly”. So gross, why do we do that?! Jesus save us from ourselves.
Great Irony of Gospel: “The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts & puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man & puts himself where only man deserves to be.”
“Peace is found in resting in the wisdom & grace of the One who has it all figured out and rules it all for his glory and our good.” -Tripp’s New Morning Mercies
Have seen this with emergence of Neighborhood Church - plenty love the idea of authentic, simple, relationship but few will roll up sleeves and dig in... https://t.co/drqDN8tgae
"We will never get the freedom and long-term satisfaction we thought self-rule would bring." -@PaulTripp, New Morning Mercies
O Jesus free us from the lies of autonomy and self-sufficiency that enslave us from freedom & satisfaction only found in you.