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Meditating on the love of God is faith-energizing, hope-building, and the opposite of wasting time. Comprehending God is impossible, but the little we can know will be health and life to our soul.
Recent Entries
Making Sense Of It AllJanuary 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
The Twelve Signs Of Grace
December 22, 2011
Self-examination is not easy to do. The tendency is to let ourselves off easy. But examine we must, for eternity is at stake.
"Ouch!!"
July 22, 2011
Spiritual pride is hard to detect. Jonathan Edwards gives some tips. The process can be painful, but necessary.
Think About His Love
March 3, 2009
The fool says in his heart, "there is no God." Psalm 14:1
Why a fool? Because if you think on the subject of God for even a moment, there dawns a sense of His greatness and our "dustness." Richard Baxter (the 1600's) the Puritan pastor shows us how this process of thinking on God can take shape.
If God be good, and infinitely good, then there is all the reason in the world that you should love Him; and there is no show of reason that you should love the world or sin before Him.
If He be faithful and true, His threatenings must be feared, and His promises must not be distrusted; and there is no reason that you should make any question of His word.
If He be holy....then He must be an enemy to sin, and to all that are unholy, because they are contrary to His nature.
Consider that He is almighty, and there is no resisting Him...in the twink of an eye can He snatch the guilty soul from thy body, and cast it where sin is better known.
A word of His mouth can set all the world against thee, and set thine own conscience against thee too....and if He be thine enemy, it is no matter who is thy friend; for all the world cannot save thee, if He do but condemn thee.
He was from eternity, and thou art but as it were of yesterday; thy being is from Him; thy life is always in His hands, thou canst not live an hour without Him, thou canst not fetch a breath without Him, nor think a thought, nor speak a word, nor stir a foot or a hand without Him.
No love can be great enough, and no praises can be high enough, and no service can be holy and good enough for such a God.
This is not a God to be neglected, or dallied with; nor a God to be resisted, nor proviked by the wilful breaking of His laws. O therefore dwell on the meditations of the almighty!
Extracted from A QUEST FOR GODLINESS by J. I. Packer
Whoever is wise let him heed these things, and consider the great love of the Lord. Psalm 107:43
Why a fool? Because if you think on the subject of God for even a moment, there dawns a sense of His greatness and our "dustness." Richard Baxter (the 1600's) the Puritan pastor shows us how this process of thinking on God can take shape.
If God be good, and infinitely good, then there is all the reason in the world that you should love Him; and there is no show of reason that you should love the world or sin before Him.
If He be faithful and true, His threatenings must be feared, and His promises must not be distrusted; and there is no reason that you should make any question of His word.
If He be holy....then He must be an enemy to sin, and to all that are unholy, because they are contrary to His nature.
Consider that He is almighty, and there is no resisting Him...in the twink of an eye can He snatch the guilty soul from thy body, and cast it where sin is better known.
A word of His mouth can set all the world against thee, and set thine own conscience against thee too....and if He be thine enemy, it is no matter who is thy friend; for all the world cannot save thee, if He do but condemn thee.
He was from eternity, and thou art but as it were of yesterday; thy being is from Him; thy life is always in His hands, thou canst not live an hour without Him, thou canst not fetch a breath without Him, nor think a thought, nor speak a word, nor stir a foot or a hand without Him.
No love can be great enough, and no praises can be high enough, and no service can be holy and good enough for such a God.
This is not a God to be neglected, or dallied with; nor a God to be resisted, nor proviked by the wilful breaking of His laws. O therefore dwell on the meditations of the almighty!
Extracted from A QUEST FOR GODLINESS by J. I. Packer
Whoever is wise let him heed these things, and consider the great love of the Lord. Psalm 107:43
