The Awe-Full Truth about Self-Denial
The essential thing is that SELF gives way altogether to CHRIST as the purpose and end of life.
The essential thing is that SELF gives way altogether to CHRIST as the purpose and end of life.
Recently, I have been going through a very difficult period of my life: things were on the verge of falling apart for my family and me. It seemed we had gone through storm after storm (financially)… and then came the whopper. We were taking on water and sinking fast. And just like the disciples, I wondered whether Jesus even cared…
A child of God simply cannot live their life with any contentment if we are not taking in God’s Word and applying it to our lives on a regular basis. We NEED God’s instruction fed to us through His very words. There just is no substitute for it.
To deny that God’s Word (The Bible) is truth is to say that Christ lied. To say, “well maybe not all of it was true”, makes Christ a liar and a fool because He said it was true.
Let my life be that which upon
You’re lifted up, that they be drawn
Unto Your mercy, deep and wide,
To find forgiveness at Your side.
I must diminish; Thou increase.
Bring others to this rest and peace.
God the Father has provided a structure for how husbands relate to their wives. Moreover, He models this structure through His own relationship with Christ the Son. The structured relationship between God the Father and Christ the Son did not diminish Christ; rather, through it Christ gained mankind’s salvation and was exalted. Similarly, the structured relationship between husband and wife does not diminish the wife. Rather, in it she is her most productive, and by it she glorifies God, and is herself exalted.
Forgiveness becomes a way of life for the one who is forgiven and made clean in the blood of the Lamb of God.
In the midst of struggle tinged with pain
I must never once forget
That the Son who made the brightest skies
will raise me up to them yet.
“…though we might suffer the consequences of our sins, God will pour out His blessings in our lives if we turn to Him: He will restore to us the years the locusts have eaten.” ~ Payback!
“…God does not measure the size or the celebrity of our ministry; God measures our faithfulness to the ministry He gave us.” ~ Faithfulness: Foremost for Followers