Tag Archives: Christianity
Making Music with Broken Reeds
It is possible for God to take a second best (or a sixty-fourth best!) and make it into something very wonderful when it is accepted as being the present condition in which a man finds himself, and when he moves toward God to develop it to the fullness of its possibilities in blessing and submission to His will, there cannot fail to be a great blessing. One of the glories of God in Christ is that He is able to make music from bruised reeds, and set smoking flax on fire (Matthew 12.20).
Easily Bored with Spiritual Things
The greatest sign that believers are not illuminated is that there is no delight and savor of spiritual things. They can logically defend their salvation… but they have never seen the beauty and glory of their salvation…. most believers are easily bored with spiritual things. That is never the condition of a believer who has seen a particular truth with illuminated eyes.
Worship 24-7-365
If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.
HT: Challies.com
The Essence of Christianity
The essence of the Christian religion consists in this, that the creation of the Father, devastated by sin, is restored in the death of the Son of God, and recreated by the Holy Spirit into the kingdom of God.
Don’t Walk around Church with a Chip on Your Shoulder
It would be a great contest amongst Christians, on to labour to give no offense, and the other to labour to take none.
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2011), 22.
God, the Artist
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted.
HT: @CSLewisDaily
Make It Your Business to Study Christ
My desires to you are–That you would make it your business to study Christ, his Word, your own hearts, Satan’s plots, and eternity–more than ever. That you would endeavor more to be inwardly sincere than outwardly glorious; to live, than to have a mere name to live. That you would labor with all your might to be thankful under mercies, and faithful in your places, and humble under divine appearances, and fruitful under precious ordinances. That as your means and mercies are greater than others–so your account before God may not prove a worse than others. That you would pray for me, who am not worthy to be named among the saints, that I may be a precious instrument in the hand of Christ to bring in many souls unto him, and to build up those who are brought in, in their most holy faith; and “that utterance may be given to me, that I may make known all the will of God” (Eph. 6:19); that I may be sincere, faithful, frequent, fervent and constant in the work of the Lord, and that my labor be not in vain in the Lord; that my labors may be accepted in the Lord and his saints, and I may daily see the travail of my soul.
Beware of Empty Orthodoxy
You can be as straight as a gun barrel theologically—and be as empty as one spiritually.
HT: challies.com
What Makes Christianity Different?
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
HT: @challies
Life Is Worship 