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Monthly Archive for April, 2009
Most of the bumps we experience as Christians are those between our closest relatives and friends. Why? First is the obvious: proximity. We have more contact with these people. But second, we care more about what they think of us because of who they are. We can’t expect a bump-free life, but we can keep our wits about us and do what we can to ameliorate and navigate through those collisions.
One important thing to keep in mind is that we usually judge others based on their actions (and we attribute the motive), and we judge ourselves on our motives. We say, “But we had good intentions. We didn’t mean to come across that way.” So we can justify our own behavior, which may have been atrocious, and consider only our motives (which are pure, don’t you know). Continue reading ‘A Deeper Right’
Sometimes women feel a tremendous load of grief for past sins, and they can confuse this with guilt. There is a big difference between the two. Let’s say you married someone that you knew you should not have, you were warned about it, but you did it anyway. Then a few weeks or months into the marriage you saw first-hand that you had done the wrong thing and you confessed the sin to God and received His pardon for the sin. But ten years later you are still married and you continue to feel guilty over this. I believe that what you are feeling is not guilt, but grief. And as long as you continue to treat the grief like guilt, you will not be able to get relief.
Perhaps you had an abortion twenty years ago and you still feel horrible guilt about it. Have you confessed the sin to God? If you have, then you can have assurance that He has forgiven you, and He forgave you back when you first asked Him to. But now you feel Continue reading ‘Grief and Guilt’
If any of you are in or around Los Angeles, the L.A. Times Festival of Books is the happening place to be this weekend. To be more precise,find your way to the Target Children’s stage on Saturday at 4:40 pm to hear Mr. N.D. Wilson say all sorts of fabulous, insightful, funny, (did I mention funny?) things about books and writing. He’ll be signing books after his talk.
In active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does…It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both…
a little more from The Rare Jewel, by Burroughs
I can in all states cast my care upon God, cast my burden upon God, I can commit my way to God in peace: faith can do this. Therefore, when reason can go no higher, let faith get on the shoulders of reason and say, ‘I see land though reason cannot see it, I see good that will come out of all this evil.’ Exercise faith by often resigning yourself to God, by giving yourself up to God and his ways. The more you in a believing way surrender up yourself to God, the more quiet and peace you will have.
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, by Jeremiah Burroughs
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