His Leading: book of Romans

Sunday, May 1, 2011

[Be] Let Down

I have been disappointed by multiple people lately. Why does this surprise me? It really shouldn't. The only expectation of man that I should have is to be let down. If from time to time I am not let down, then great, but really, man is full of sin, we have a sin nature we cannot escape, so why should I expect man to preform perfectly? I am not at all saying the fact that we are sinners gives us the freedom to go on sinning without even trying to change (Romans 6:1&2) but we need to realize that the only One who will not let us down, who will never leave us nor forsake us is Christ (Hebrew 13:5), and in Him and Him alone we can put our whole selves without fear of being let down. This really is not new information for me, but maybe I really never thought upon it that much before. I knew it, so I left it at that without going deeper. But really, what a wonderful truth to rest upon, something great to be reminded of. I can complain all I want about people not being there for me but that was never a promise God gave us in the Bible. I think with being conscious of others not being perfect it will help with my attitude when others don't act as I expect them to. And really, I mess up all the time and yet God still loves me. What have I done to earn His love, forgiveness and grace? Absolutely nothing. So why do I expect others to earn my love, forgiveness and grace? That is not right one bit and I thank my Father in Heaven for making this truth visible for me to see.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Oh, How Beautiful

How gorgeous right?
These are some flowers I saw in Kenya...

For, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
How then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news."

Romans 10:13-15

How about that?
God thinks the feet of us who spread
His Word are beautiful...
even more beautiful than these
flowers of the earth,
for they will pass away.

Hakuna Matata

Overflowing Hearts

"He lived serenely, as a greater artist than all other artists, despising marble and clay as well as color, working in living flesh. That is to say, this matchless artist...made neither statues nor pictures nor books; he loudly proclaimed that he made...living men, immortals."
-Vincent Van Gogh, on Jesus

"Thus we are fully engaged in the world on realistic terms, but empowered by vision and energies from a world that is unseen but even more real and realistic."
-Os Guinness

"If I covet any place on earth but the dust at the foot of the cross, I know nothing of Calvary love."
-Amy Carmichael

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."
-Elisabeth Elliot

"It is probably impossible to love any human being simply 'too much'. We may love him too much in proportion to our love for God; but it is the smallness of our love of God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy."
-C.S. Lewis

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
-Mother Teresa

"Suffering is not the worst thing that can happen to us. Disobedience to God is the worst thing."
-Tom White

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
-Jim Elliot

"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord."
-Sir Francis Drake

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters - yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple."
-Jesus Christ