At His Feet..

Weekly Twitter Update

RT @wakeupmyfaith: If you want to move a mountain you must first set up base camp in your prayer closet

 RT @aubreynb: “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another.” G.K. Chesterton

RT @PassionNetwork: There is no Broken Heart that God can't fix

RT @RevKevDeYoung: Don't be afraid to remind people of what you know they already know. We all leak the gospel.

 RT @erwinmcmanus "Love like a poet. Live like a warrior. Learn like an apprentice. Lead like a servant."

 RT @jameschoung: When you go into a community, ask: what would the Kingdom of God look like if it came here?

 Here's a bad prediction: "After I've been dead five years no one will read anything I have written." - CS Lewis / Glad it didn't come true!

RT @JustinBuzzard: What defines your life is not your imperfect past, but Christ's perfect past.

"We all agreed that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it."-- CSLewis (@CSLewisU)

The Valley is the Place...

This may have to be my new life motto:

"Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all, 
that to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision."

From The Valley of the Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers

Quoted by Trevin Wax, Holy Subversion, page 127

Just A Reminder....

...like me and you!

Contemplation of the Cross

Martin Luther on the True Contemplation of the Cross

"Let us meditate a moment on the passion of Christ....true contemplation is that in which the heart is crushed and the conscience smitten....You must be overwhelmed by the frightful wrath of God who so hated sin that he spared not his only begotten Son. What can the sinner expect if the beloved Son was so afflicted? It must be an inexpressible and unendurable yearning that causes God’s Son himself so to suffer. Ponder this and you will tremble, and the more you ponder, the deeper you will tremble.

The whole value of the meditation of the suffering of Christ lies in this, that man should come to the knowledge of himself and sink and tremble. If you are so hardened that you do not tremble, then you have reason to tremble. Pray to God that he may soften your heart and make fruitful your mediation upon the suffering of Christ, for we ourselves are incapable of proper reflection unless God instill it."

Hat Tip:- Desiring God

CRUX SOLA EST NOSTRIA THEOLOGICA!
 

He Neither Snickers Nor Sighs

I needed to hear this today:

"When our heavenly Father looks upon the broken mess of our lives, he doesn’t snicker or sigh. He ministers to us a sweeter comfort than any temporary and worldly comfort we’d sought before. We are told by the prophet, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” God doesn’t despise us in our brokenness; he comforts us in it. The greater the brokenness, the greater the impulse to trust him. The greater the trust in him, the greater the joy of his salvation. So, then, the further to the end of ourselves we go, the more of Christ we will enjoy."

From Jared Wilson at The Gospel-Driven Church: Our Father Neither Snickers Nor Sighs

Good News for Broken Hearts

"The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted."

- Martin Luther

Hat Tip: Monergism :: Law and Gospel