BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Let's use this power in a constructive way...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Let's use this power in a constructive way...

“You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole of civilization to bits...” Mahatma Gandhi

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Ephesians 6:17)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: I think that we have gotten so used to experiencing God in domesticated, tamed ways, that for many of us we have simply forgotten how powerful, dynamic, and untamable our faith truly is. Thanks for the great reminder.

Thanks also for the reminder that is often takes an outsider to point out what is most taken for granted.; 8/30/2007 9:28 pm
Anonymous said...: Pastor David

Your right. Sad to say I fall into this group of thinkers, from tiime to time.; 8/31/2007 3:23 pm
little david said...: I agree--we completely miss the radical nature of Jesus most of the time.; 9/01/2007 6:08 am
Paul said...: Thanks for the friendly comments, guys. Yes, these words are both inspiring and 'embarassing'... We have the best Book, we serve the eternal God of the Universe, our Saviour is the One and Only and He guides us daily by his powerful Spirit but sometimes we are still too shy to go out and claim the Victory for our King! Let's change that, okay?; 9/01/2007 11:15 pm

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)