February 2012
7 posts
Beautifying His bride
I am coming to know more deeply that with great knowledge comes a great call to be a man of the Spirit, a man of character. With greater grasp and passion for Biblical truth and the depths of the knowledge of the Lord, I will be further held accountable by God for a greater love for Him and His people and the world.
The reason is because one who is theologically inclined and doctrinally wired can...
Conjunctions are important.
Call Him Sovereign Lord, God Almighty, who alone is worthy of all glory and honor, and call Him Abba Father, dearest Daddy, who calls me His beloved child!
Never replace the and with an or. They are not mutually exclusive. And don’t overlook the first statement just because there is a natural emphasis in the latter due to grammatical structure.
“The longer you meditate on the writings of the apostle Paul, the more clearly...”
– John Piper (excerpt from sermon What Must Happen Before the Day of the Lord?)
From Valentine to Victory
From God to infant. From infant to child. From child to man. From man to crucified. From crucified to death. From death to resurrection. From resurrection to ascension.
From anger to mercy. From debt to grace. From condemned to justified. From damned to loved. From wrath to glory.
From covenant to faithfulness. From Valentine to Victory.
“22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and...”
– Judges 8:22-23
Jesus Chooses and Uses Failures
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“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was grieved. Sitting on the beach after breakfast, Jesus had just asked him for the third time if he loved him. Peter had already wholeheartedly answered yes twice. What else was he supposed to say?
With these questions, the Lord was putting his finger on a very tender wound in Peter’s heart. Peter’s failure on the night of Jesus’ trial had...
It is good to tremble
2 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. Isaiah 66:2
26 I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God,enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be...
January 2012
7 posts
“The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to...”
– We may be too quick to separate our fear of Him from our friendship with Him. (via francisupdates)
Salvation for dead men
38 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus...
Don't equate teaching and loving correction with... →
A follow-up to the previous post. Thank You, God, for fiery young men like Bethke, who is also humble enough to be teachable and is a loud voice unto a generation in need of Your grace. Thank You, God, for wise(r) men like DeYoung, whose prime resolve is to see Christ magnified in an as unmistakable way as possible, lovingly teaching younger folks like Bethke and myself to find supreme joy in the...
Great read. Clarifications on Jesus. (link) →
Kevin DeYoung took the words right out of my mouth. I love that new viral video “Jesus hates Religion” because the infrastructure of its poetic verses is the amazing grace of God. It is a glorious reminder to myself, as I remember that those who do not abide by the law are cursed but that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us when he hung on that tree....
Magnificent, awe-striking beauty of Christ
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In a sermon titled “The Excellency of Christ” [Jonathan] Edwards took as his text Revelation 5:5-6 where Christ is compared both to a lion and a lamb. His point was that the unique glory of Christ was that such diverse excellencies (lion and lamb) unite in him. These excellencies are so diverse that they “would have seemed to us utterly incompatible in the same...
We were created for His glory
6 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
Isaiah 43:6-7
Love the Church, love her whole
1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—5 one Lord, one faith,...
December 2011
4 posts
Truth hurts
I find it hard to grasp that a Christian—one who loves Jesus above all else and bears His name for the sake of the glory of God—should look into the eyes of his nonbelieving friend and not be filled with immense sorrow.
This is right. Truth hurts. But one day, when I see Him face to Face, I will remember that every tear and heartache was worth it.
18 For many, of whom I have often...
Defend His glory; correct with love
Under the umbrella of my dearest and greatest love, the Savior Christ Himself, there is one thing I love more than anything: the accurate, Biblical teaching and preaching of His gospel through the foundation of Scripture alone that points all things to the indisputable glory of God. And under that same umbrella, there is one thing I hate more than anything: emerging claims of truth wrapped in the...
Justification and sanctification
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. 2 Corinthians 7:1
Every woman (and man) must read →
Yes! Ladies, do not shy away from theology. Written by a woman. This has become one of my favorite articles I’ve read online. Seriously.
November 2011
9 posts
Romans 8:38-39
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
Nor finals nor the stress of the end of the semester/quarter.
Friends, be loved by Him especially in the midst...
A woman of God
28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 29 “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
Proverbs 31:28-29
I await the day when those words come out of my own lips to the beautiful woman who has been beautified by the blood of Jesus. What a thing to say. “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them...
Love
Love is preached powerfully where sin is preached accurately.
A glimpse of Biblical manhood and womanhood →
Good read.
A poem
I wrote this poem back in March of this year. I don’t think it’s supposed to be particularly good. I say that because I don’t know anything about how to write a good poem, and this is probably the first poem I’ve ever written. Seriously. I’m an engineering student. But I like words and I like putting them together to remind myself of the richness of the glory of...
A popular quote
“What you are is God’s gift to you; what you become is your gift to God.”
This is a popular quote. It’s an inspirational, motivational, feel-good, fist-pump invoking, triumphant quote that stirs up morale of the human heart to do wildly successful things in this world—whether it be in small-scale things in the present time, such as performing well on a college exam or in the grand scope of the...
Purity
I would rather marry a once prostitute who was found by Jesus and is in love with Him than marry a pure and spotless virgin who is merely a good church-goer.
It is the blood of Christ that makes us pure, not our deeds or accomplishments.
Glory and tenderness
The majestic glory of God, in whom all things live and move, to whom all praise is due, for whom all things were created.
The sweet tenderness of the Father, in whom all tears are redeemed, to whom all affections and adorations are directed, for whom there is our salvation that we might be held in His embrace that He would look glorious.
We need both. He is both.
October 2011
10 posts
Reblog
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Ephesians 2:10
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Seriously SMH at the girls that use “HALLOWEEN” as a license to dress skanky. Why do they have to show off to others to find satisfaction or to fit in.I dont know. Am i being too critical?
I praise God for a brother like him, who says...
This might be redundant
It might be a repost of my last one. But I can’t put to words the awe in knowing that I am a son of the living God. I was an orphan in my sin with the sure future of death and He adopted me.
It costs about $20,000-30,000 to adopt a newborn baby and approximately $3,000-4,000 to adopt a Foster child in the United States of America.
It cost God the blood of His sinless, spotless, glorious...
An amalgam of words
When you are reminded how Jesus Christ on His throne in heaven is crazy about you, nothing else in life really matters anymore. God delights in me for who I am and the way I am. True? True. Perfectly true.
But God, if You delight in me for who I am and the way I am, it’s only because You made me that way. You must have made me a certain way so that You could delight in me.
No.
He...
Prayer
The prayer of one righteous man can move mountains.
I have to believe that more.
Words fail
Attempting to describe God and all of the splendor of His glory with words is like trying to write a master’s thesis using only three letters of the alphabet. Impossible.
Words do injustice to the beauty of our King.
Real Hope
My heart’s every burden and anguish is more than worth it when I get to see people supremely satisfied in the fullness of God’s glory. (May I remind you, lest you forget, that in all things that are good, it is completely the Holy Spirit in me. I’m convinced of this. If there is anything good about me, You are literally seeing His Spirit living inside of me.)
On September 15,...
Neither do I condemn you
3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his...
God doesn't need us
It’s true. Let that not lead you to feeling insulted but let it amaze you at just how great He could possibly be if He really were to not need us.
As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the...
September 2011
5 posts
Glorious
“Great is Your faithfulness.” That truth strikes home for us when we see with the eyes on our faces and the eyes of our hearts just how great indeed is His faithfulness. And we see it happen when we ask God to do things—some impossible things. We long to see God be faithful. We long to know just how immeasurable is His grace and goodness toward us. We long to see God be so...
But as for me
But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds. Psalm 73:28
Greatest Romance
The greatest romance is not when a man travels thousands of miles for hundreds of hours through triumph and turmoil to pursue a woman whom he calls his beloved, as per Hollywood. It is how Christ loved and pursued the church and gave Himself up for her. “Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her...
Hope
If there even were one bad thing about being saved by God’s grace, it would be this: the anguish placed on your heart for those who are in desperate need of Jesus. But if all of my sorrows make Jesus look as awesome as He is, then let my life be immersed in tears and a heavy heart, for Christ always takes them all upon Himself anyway. Dear, precious friend: I do not hope that Jesus becomes a big...
Preface
I wrestled with this very much—if I should create a tumblr or not. But if I write a thousand posts with millions of words and just one person can be reminded of the glory of God in Christ Jesus, no word would have been written in vain. If the Holy Spirit will weave together my words into a mosaic that displays His beauty and makes Him look as great as He really is, I will be humbled and amazed....