Today’s Quote (10/19/08)

Amy Carmichael: And shall I pray to change Thy will, my Father, until it accord to mine? But no, Lord, no; that shall never be. Rather, I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. (HT: John MacArthur)

Today’s Quote (10/18/08)

Edmund Clowney: Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God’s good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny. (HT: CQOD)

Today’s Quote (10/17/08)

John Piper, Desiring God: The purposes of God cannot be frustrated; there is none like God. If a purpose of God came to nought it would imply that there is a power greater than God’s. It would imply that someone could stay his hand when he designs to do a thing. But ‘none can stay […]

Today’s Quote (10/16/08)

H. C. Leupold, Psalms: With God things in this world never get out of hand.

Today’s Quote (10/15/08)

Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned. This is the essence of God’s sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, […]

Today’s Quote (10/14/08)

Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (Lamentations 3:37).…God is in control, but in His control He always allows us to experience pain. The pain is very real. We hurt, we suffer. But in the midst of our suffering we muct believe that […]

Sunday Leftovers (10/5/08)

In 1859, Anna Warner published a little-known book entitled Say and Seal in which one of the characters in the story comforted a dying child by singing a song which had been penned by Anna just for that book. Three years later, William Bradbury came across the book and the song and wrote a tune […]

Controlled by God’s love

May I ask a straight-forward question? Why do you do what you do? That is, what is the motive for your actions? What drives you and compels you? Specifically, when you think about how you serve God, can you also determine why you serve God? Some serve God from a sense of “holy ought.” He […]

Today’s Quote (9/23/08)

A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy: The certainty that God is always near us, present in all parts of His world, closer to us than our thoughts, should maintain us in a state of high moral happiness most of the time. But not all the time. It would be less than honest to […]

Sunday Leftovers (9/21/08)

Many thoughts remained in my mind (and in my notes) following yesterday’s sermon. Belief in the omnipresence of God is not new for me. I have thought about it many times. But the significance of God’s continual presence with me (and all men) weighed on me in new and fresh ways this week. What follows […]

Sunday Leftovers (9/14/08)

Once upon a time there was an athlete. He was not the biggest, or the fastest, or the strongest, or the most athletic, but there had never been another athlete who was both bigger and faster, or both stronger and more athletic. He was the athlete’s athlete. He was a star in college; he became […]

Today’s Quote (9/15/08)

A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God: “There is infinitely more power lodged in the nature of God than is expressed in all His works.”

God knows

He knows. I know he knows. At least I thought he knew. My friend Ned has eyes that not only see you, but pierce you. They don’t blink. They don’t wander. They cut through you and seem to examine your heart. And so it was that when I met him my first thought was, “He […]

Sunday Leftovers (9/7/08)

Psalm 139 begins with David’s delight in God’s omniscience: God knows David’s past (v. 1) God knows David’s every present activity (vv. 2-3) God knows David’s every future word (and thoughts, v. 4) God knows David as if to surround him perpetually (v. 5) God’s knowledge of David is a delight to David (v. 6) […]

Today’s Quote (8/30/08)

Oswald Chambers, The Highest Good: The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.