“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, Genesis 3:6a
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 1 John 2:15-17
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9
“But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” Micah 5:2
“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Genesis 8:20-21
“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Genesis 8:20-21
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;” Isaiah 61:1
All the trouble in the world today is due to the fact that man is not right with God, for it is because he is not right with God that he has gone wrong everywhere else. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Not collecting wood or tasks to work on but the glorious gravity of a place that inspires worship morning and evening with no evil or sorrow to interrupt.
Not a collection of saying from philosophers and sages, remedies and costumes that mask, or the hopeless pursuit of the best self you can makeup in your own mind but a transforming renewing grace that is powerfully sufficient for all of our days welling up into eternity.
How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb your surface level needs temporarily?
How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb you surface level needs temporarily?
What is the deeper gospel level reality to your longing that God wants to meet you in today and satisfy into eternity?
How or what are you gathering to try and satisfy that longing that the world has taught you or that will only numb you surface level needs temporarily?
What is the deeper gospel level reality to your longing that God wants to meet you in today and satisfy into eternity?