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“Humility” always seems like something we do in order to get what we want. I don’t think this is what Jesus has in mind in the Beatitudes.
To flinch, to turn away, to ignore is only an option for the privileged.
To behold something is to “hold”
something in our vision, to let the weight of it rest on our mind and heart.
This is really the point of following Jesus—to become like him. And in order to become like him, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:18, we must behold his glory.
We are parched. We are starving. We are thirsty and hungry for the glory of Jesus.
Before you become numb to this battle and stop fighting it you must ignore the clapper of conscience clanging against the walls of your soul and push through it.
The most powerful “catalyst” for moving people through stages of spiritual growth, the survey revealed, was reading and reflection on Scripture.
If he is before all things and holds all things together, he’s probably in a lot of the Scripture passages we read regularly but don’t take the time to see him in.
Continuing steadfastly in prayer speaks to commitment, to routine practice, to endurance, and even to duty. Being watchful in prayer speaks to focus, clarity, and awareness.
But when we think of duty as a worshipful prayer, the tables get turned on the entire concept of obligation.
You can’t be good friends with someone you don’t listen to, and you can’t be good friends with someone you don’t talk to.
The church has got to be a place where it’s okay to not be okay.
Our faith, like our sins, is personal. But this doesn’t mean that our faith ought to be private.
Paul’s way of saying that the fruit of the Spirit is how we demonstrate the law’s fulfillment and the gospel’s freedom.
Your true self is hidden with Christ in God.
Do you see the love God has for you in the sacrifice he did not spare?
As Charles Spurgeon said, “Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
That the holy God of the universe, to whom I owe my very life, would punish his own Son so he wouldn’t have to punish me is staggering. Because he loves me.
It is true that sometimes God doesn’t become our only hope until God becomes our only hope.
want to, by God’s grace, give you the freedom to own up to your not having your act together.
You are not your ability to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. You are not the sum of your spiritual accomplishments and religious devotion. You are a great sinner, yes. But you have a great Savior. Child of God, you are a child of God. And he will never, ever, ever leave you or forsake you.
