BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Not without you

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Not without you

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.
(Max Lucado, And the Angels Were Silent - Source picture)
Satan dares to enter yet another garden, but God stands and Satan hasn't a prayer...
(Max Lucado, A Gentle Thunder)

4 comments:

Vicki said...: I am so thankful that He did.

That knowledge, along with the photo you've used here, gives me goosebumps.

Praise God!; 4/05/2007 9:32 pm
Carolanne said...: Amen!; 4/06/2007 11:48 am
Anonymous said...: Maybe it's not about Jesus choosing to go to heaven with me. Could there be something even deeper? Is it about Jesus bringing glory to GOD through his actions.
Thanks for this post it got me thinking; 4/06/2007 7:40 pm
Paul said...: I agree with you, Mike. Jesus brings glory to God, the Father brings glory to the Son, the Spirit brings glory to both of them... Maybe they all want to have us in heaven to share in this eternal celebration of love and glory?; 4/06/2007 7:46 pm

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God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)