GLORIFICATION

“Glorification means full and entire deliverance from sin and evil in all their effects and in every respect – body, soul, and spirit.”

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Source: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, ROMANS, The Final Perseverance of the Saints, page two

To win a copy of Extreme Food, tell us the strangest thing you have ever eaten.

The strangest thing I have ever eaten was probably in Thailand.

And I am not the only one I have been told.

I am from Germany, but there was another missionary from America who helped himself generously to the bread spread.

I must have been warned to use the  spread sparingly, but he thought it was a chocolate spread and piled it on his sandwich.

No, I never found Thai food strange, I rather enjoyed it, but Marmite (a yeast and vegetable extract), which was brought from Britain into Thailand.

THE CROSS

“Children

John 1:13

Intr.:

born

1.  not of natural descent,

2.  nor of human decision

3.  or a husband’s will,

End:

but born of God.”

“THERE IS NOTHING MORE CHARACTERISTIC OF SINFUL MAN THAN RESTLESSNESS.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“THE TROUBLED SEA”

“But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.” – Isaiah 57:20

“STILL RESTLESS,” I saw written on the front of a campervan some time ago.” 

Reading is what I love. But whenever the author of a book is quoting hymns or lines of hymns, you can see them before you get to them, skipping comes to my mind and I don’t read the hymns.

“‘Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismay’d!

I, I am your God, and will give you aid.'”

Spurgeon quotes those two lines in his book MORNING AND EVENING Daily Readings (MORNING, January 16).

The text he is expounding on that day is from Isaiah and we find it in Isaiah 41:14: “I myself will help you, declares the LORD.”

Skipping came to my mind when I read the two lines, but those two lines are at the end of the page and I did not read them, but only glancing at the words was enough to make me pay attention.

What do I fear today? Is there something I am afraid of? Or are there even several things I am afraid of? What about making those phone calls and finding out how things are? And don’t forget to make that appointment. The sooner the better. Is that not our story?

It is so easy to get depressed and discouraged. Are you dismayed today? God is our heavenly Father and does not want us to fear. We are his children and he is with us.

In the second line it says twice “I”. Let us look to him and believe what he says. He will give us support. We want to remember that he is our foundation (First Corinthians 3:11). Let us encourage each other on our way.

And I know also that all that is easier said than done.

I am wondering now if I have learned to pay attention to the quoted hymns in the books I read. The author knows why he is putting the lines there.

“Smile More”

Having read a number of encouragements to smile, I asked myself some time ago the question, “Has our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ever smiled?” Not finding anything in my Bible concordance, I left it like that.

“A smile is a curve that puts a lot of things straight,” for example is written on one of our fridge magnets.

I know that “Smile! It improves your face value!” has been used as a church sign. “Smile if you love Jesus! Anyone can honk,” has also been used as a church sign.

I read also “Smile! It takes  72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile.” But I don’t know if that is true.

My last one-liner is about laughter, “Laughter is a tranquiliser with no side effects.”

“There is no record anywhere of our Lord having laughed aloud, “says D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones almost at the end of his book on ROMANS. Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17, The Sons of God. I am reading that today in the last sermon of the book.

Does that not answer my question with which I started this post?

SMILE

ROMANS

Today I finished reading the book “The Sons of God”.

All I can say is, “GET HOLD OF THE BOOK AND READ IT!”