THE CROSS
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Hebrews 10:39
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
SUNSHINE
Helen Keller says:
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
I want to do that, I don’t want to see the shadow, but I love the sunshine, I want to see the sunshine.
It is raining today here in Kaitaia, in the Far North of New Zealand.
Let me tell you about two people, who kept their faces to the sunshine, one came from Germany and the other from England. Both were not only writing about the sun, but also singing about the sun.
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Christian David, who lived from 1690 – 1751 was born in Maehren in Germany and went as carpenter with the Herrnhuter missionaries to Greenland.
He gave us the hymn “Sonne der Gerechtigkeit, gehe auf zu unserer Zeit!” (“Sun of righteousness, shine in our time!”) He says also, “Sun of righteousness ignite the fire of love for the world to see.”
In Malachi 4:2 we read, “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.”
John Keble was from England. For ten years he was a professor of poetry at Oxford university. He was also an Anglican minister. He wrote the poem “Sun of my Soul” in 1820. “Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear, it is not night if Thou be near,” is the first line of the hymn.
Psalm 84 is a psalm of the Sons of Korah and there we read in the verses 11+12
“For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.”
The writer of the letter to the Hebrews commands us: “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,…”
(Remember also the chorus by Helen H. Lemmel, 1864-1961
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in his wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.”
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
– Oliver Goldsmith
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
– Johann W. von Goethe
Life is a Predicament?
Yesterday I came across the quote “Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament,” by George Santayana.
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
Today is Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and I am reading again about “predicament”. In the “Daily Readings from the Works of Martyn Lloyd-Jones” selected by Frank Cumbers. Lloyd-Jones writes on November 5 that we are not only in a predicament, but that we are in a “terrible predicament”.
He points out that we are “victims of sin and of Satan,” and that we “must run to Christ.”
The Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior. We are saved “from” and “to”.
We are saved:
From the wrath to come – Romans 5:9.
From the curse of a broken law – Galatians 3:10.
We are saved:
To a relationship with God – John 1:12.
To eternal life – John 3:36.
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
Yes, life is a predicament!
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Wherever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.”
– Wilson Follett
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The politician who is confused about God will be confused about God’s world, which leads inevitable to a confused world view and inadequate political solutions.”
– D. Stuart Brisco
in his book on Romans
Running out of Everything
“…; there is nothing new under the sun,” says the Teacher in Ecclesiastes 1:9.
The quote “‘You run out of people to blame, places to run, places to hide,'” in the booklet called “Take a look …” about Family Violence reminds me of what the Teacher says.
FAMILY VIOLENCE