Diligent Confirmation
“Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.”
Unknown God
I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Fairness
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
Devoted
“For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.”
Appealing
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
God’s Glory
Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me”
Something to Prove
“…that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.”
God’s Symphony
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
God’s Reputation
He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Asking Unknowing
…and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lᴏʀᴅ his God. And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.”
Sacrifices of God
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Enough
“Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
Mighty Have Fallen
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground.”
Resolutions
Honestly—I’m going to change. Next year. Soon. Again. I hope. Maybe.
God with Us
God with? Why would God ever desire to be ‘with’ us? Certainly not out of need but why and how and more why. Shouldn’t we be wanting to be with Him?
Legacy – When all that Remains, Remains
When his public arena grew small and simply personal, he continued to express Jesus. The size of the arena did not determine the intensity of his connections. In the final stages of his physical body poisoning him as it ceased to process life, he continued to touch lives simply by caring more about others than self…
Walking in Agreement
‘Once upon a time’ a man was drawing large crowds, had become quite popular, was being followed by way more people than most would expect. Do you think he feed that popularity, rallied the cause, catered to what would appeal to even larger throngs? No, not quite…
Measuring Life
“The natural person does not accept the things of the [Divine] for they are folly to him…” Man, left to create his own identity, may well create his own Hell…
Identity
Our current cultural fascination with creating our own identities is beginning to show the same weakness that my grandfather faced fifty-ish years ago. Creating our own identity rests upon the foundation of our inability to be God…
Religious in America
“Nearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not religious, and 2% volunteer they are “both.” Although the vast majority of U.S. adults have one of these orientations toward the nonphysical world, the 18% who say they are neither religious nor spiritual is twice the proportion Gallup measured when it first asked this question in 1999.”
Clarity of Vision
Pick your information source: newsprint, talk radio, television, social media or anywhere else that appeals to your sense of what is true. But – always the but – is it True?
Are Foundations Important?
In the parable, the two types of structures are completed, apparently enjoyed for a time, but then comes a time of evaluation of the quality of construction. While both looked good, were comfortable, appreciated, even praised by observers, there comes a time of evaluation of the merits of the basics.
You Live by Faith
We believe that we are generally safe from Chicken Little’s “the sky is falling” and do not live in fear that the ground we are walking upon will cease to support us adequately. We trust other drivers to use reasonable care in operation of their vehicles in proximity to us in traffic.
What is Truth?
Truth? Complete yet incomplete. What are the elements that must be present for Truth to be True? Is it Absolute, Universal, Consistent or is it fluid and you can make it what you want?
Quest for Truth
Truth must be consistent, universal, definable and several other elements discussed in other blogs and if these elements are true of themselves, they exist beyond our acknowledging them. They are determinate and not situational.