Believer:
Upon facing difficult circumstances, put effort into hourly checking your heart and joyfully driving your will to act and think more like Christ.
In the end, this is God's will and intention for every circumstance: your sanctification. So don't fight it. Pain will be lessened if effort is put into conforming to the image of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
Philippians 2:12-13
15.5.12
Thoughts on Proverbs
"The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor."
Proverbs 15:33
Implications:
Step 1: Cultivate fear of the Lord
Step 2: Make hourly choices that express my fear of the Lord
Proverbs 15:33
Implications:
Step 1: Cultivate fear of the Lord
Step 2: Make hourly choices that express my fear of the Lord
7.5.12
Spurgeon
"You have no place in which to pour your troubles except the ear of God. If you tell them to your friends, you but put your troubles out a moment, and they will return again. Roll your burden unto God, and you have rolled it into a great deep, out of which it will never by any possibility rise. Cast your troubles where you cast your sins; you have cast your sins into the depths of the sea, there cast your troubles also. Never keep a trouble half an hour on your own mind before you tell it to God. As soon as the trouble comes, quick, the first thing, tell it to your Father."
-Charles Spurgeon
-Charles Spurgeon
2.5.12
New topics preview
New blog topics have been mulling around in my brain for weeks now. The next few days are looking busy so I will not take the time to sit down and organize each topic but rather take advantage of the caffeine racing through my body at 1am to preview what I'd like to hit... eventually.
1. Today I finally understood Romans chapter 6. I've struggled with this passage for years and I can tell that this understanding is going to have a life changing effect on me. I really want to write about this revelation because I think it deals with something that many Christians misunderstand.
2. Needs I think need to be met (and potentially could be met by me): biblical and logical dialog on feminism vs. femininity commenting on specific feminist writers of books and columns that I've recently read, a how-to encourage single women and an explanation of the choices they face in the Christian realm - modern day-, & who's ministering to the Pastor's wives? blog & networking resources
3. My future plans with international missions, etc. but also my understanding of what to do with plans and direction. And how God is turning everything upside down.
4. Where the new blog title and sub title came from and how it's permanent (finally) and my new ambition for this blog.
Hopefully this will stir up accountability for me to write about each idea.
1. Today I finally understood Romans chapter 6. I've struggled with this passage for years and I can tell that this understanding is going to have a life changing effect on me. I really want to write about this revelation because I think it deals with something that many Christians misunderstand.
2. Needs I think need to be met (and potentially could be met by me): biblical and logical dialog on feminism vs. femininity commenting on specific feminist writers of books and columns that I've recently read, a how-to encourage single women and an explanation of the choices they face in the Christian realm - modern day-, & who's ministering to the Pastor's wives? blog & networking resources
3. My future plans with international missions, etc. but also my understanding of what to do with plans and direction. And how God is turning everything upside down.
4. Where the new blog title and sub title came from and how it's permanent (finally) and my new ambition for this blog.
Hopefully this will stir up accountability for me to write about each idea.
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