“My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep Your law. Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules. You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness. My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words.
Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it. I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts. Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true. Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.
With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes. i call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise. Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.” psalm 119: 136-149
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RSSI know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
- Charles H. Spurgeon (via cafespirit)
(Source: bearyourcross)
whether it be at work or in my personal life.. whenever God shows me other peoples sin & it’s like blatant, it’s always awkward and makes me super nervous bc I knw I’m about to have this gargantuan LOG taken out my own eye. happens EVERY time. and surgery is quite painful. it seems being humbled is pretty nice, but I only realize that after I’ve been humbled. the process is atrocious. you’d think going thru this process daily would get one acclimated to the pain. well it doesn’t. the pain gets worse with every log removed but the joy at the end is always an intensified joy. #nopainnogainvalidity.
Some preach obedience as a means of justification; we preach justification as a means to obedience.
- Daniel Chamier (via solideogloriaa)
(Source: chopstickgirl)
This faithfulness of God is the foundation and cornerstone of our hope of final perseverance. The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
- Charles Spurgeon (via peacenotwar)
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.
- Elisabeth Elliot (via set-apartgirl)
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. Presently he’ll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones; and he will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. His whole way of life will be changed. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Duties too. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg. But I shall never be a biped again.”
“His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, nor from Him. We could almost say He sees because he loves, and therefore loves although He sees.”
-cs lewis. a grief observed.
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faith isn’t believing, it’s reminding yourself of what you once believed when you were level-headed…
“that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.” -psalm 48:14
“for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” -revelation 7:17
“He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of His people, He will take away fro all the earth, for the LORD had spoken.” -isaiah 25:8
“For this is what the LORD says: ”I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.” When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass; the hand of the LORD will be made known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his foes.” -isaiah 66:12-14
“blessed are the dead in who die in the Lord from now on. blessed indeed, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!” revelation 14:13
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, and remain until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
dad’s freestyle.
…all three words.
We long to see our fellow-men turned from darkness to light, and we love Him as the sun of righteousness, who can alone illuminate them. We hate sin, and therefore we rejoice in him as manifested to take away sin. We pant for holier and happier times, and therefore we adore him as the coming Ruler of all lands, who will bring a millennium with him in the day of his appearing. Love the soul of every man with all the intensity of thy being.
- spurgeon devo. 12may12
"there is no other Stream."
- "Are you not thirsty?" said the Lion.
- "I'm dying of thirst," said Jill.
- "Then drink," said the Lion.
- "May I—could I—would you mind going away while I do?" said Jill.
- The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. . .
- "I daren't come and drink," said Jill.
- "Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.
- "Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer. "I suppose I must go, and look for another stream then."
- "There is no other stream," said the Lion.
How sweet it was for me to rid myself of those fruitless pleasures that I once feared so much to lose…You drove them from me. You the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place. You who are sweeter than all pleasure.
- Augustine (via martelthechristianrapper)
(Source: cencis)
The fullness of Your grace is here with me
The richness of Your beauty’s all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied
For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love
A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it’s filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
In Your presence God I’m completely satisfied
-divine romance // phil wickham
Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist.
- Mark Driscoll (via evenso-itiswell)
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