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Do You Thrill at Being Forgiven?

Posted on by under John Piper

One of the reasons that many Christians seem to have no thrill at being forgiven through the gospel is that they have not been broken hearted over their sin. They have not despared. They have not wrestled with warranted self-loathing. They have not grieve over their sin because of its moral repugnance, but have grieved only because of guilt feelings and threats of hell.

John Piper, God Is the Gospel (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2005), 105.

We Will Never Figure out God

Posted on by under Paul Tripp

The fact of the matter is that we will never figure God out. He will never do all the things that we were expecting. He will never stay on our agenda page. He will never be comfortably predictable. If we rest in God’s care only when we understand just what He’s doing, there will be many times and places where we won’t rest in his care. The danger in all of this is this: we simply do not run for help to someone whom we have come to distrust. It is in the moments of hardship when what God is doing doesn’t make any sense that it is all the more important to preach to ourselves the gospel of His unshakable, unrelenting, ever-present care. He is actively caring for you and me even in those moments when we don’t understand his care and can’t figure out what he is doing.

Original emphasis, Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 217.

Worship Is a Reflection of Our Perceptions of God

Posted on by under W. F. Adeney

The feelings of a worshipper will always be reflections from what he thinks he perceives its in the countenance of his God. They will be gloomy if the god is a sombre personage, and cheerful if he is a glad being. Now the revelation of God in the Bible is the unveiling with growing clearness of a countenance of unspeakable love and beauty and gladness. He is made known to us as ‘the blessed God’ — the happy God…. This same communication of gladness is seen in the life of our Lord, not only during those early sunny days in Galilee when His ministry opened under a cloudless sky, but even amid the darkness of the last hours at Jerusalem, for in His final discourse Jesus prayed that His joy might be in his disciples in order that their joy might be full.

W. F. Adeney in Peloubets Select Notes on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching: 1948 (Boston: W. A. Wilde Co., 1947), 145.