tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60009112011-09-16T13:06:29.721-05:00While involved in my pursuit of godliness I just wanted to share with other people why God's glory is so important in my life.J Lohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972332972425432328noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000911.post-1152769241672158462006-07-13T00:30:00.000-05:002006-07-17T20:13:17.336-05:00

I was talking with a friend this Sunday at church and he asked me how I was doing. I told him that it had been a really rough week. He then proceeded to ask me, "How has God revealed His grace to you this week." What a great questions. This really got me thinking later. I started thinking about how much grace there is in my life and how much of it I'm unaware of. I like the question because

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Well I've been learning about compassion a lot lately, well the lack of it in my life mainly. I'm dating this girl right now and we were talking about ways in which we complement one another. Her answer was something to the effect that I'm more on the blunt side and she's more understanding of where people are coming from. There is a time for bluntness, but not at the expense of the needs of

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II Corinthians 4:6-7 "For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us."Paul is talking about how the Gospel is veiled to those who are perishing and that Satan blinds them to the

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II Corinthians 3:7-11 "Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of the condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in

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Paul's command to us in I Corinthians 14:1 that we "pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts" makes me wonder if I really desire these gifts. My spiritual gifts are exhortation and wisdom, I believe, and I look for occasion in which I can use these gifts, but I don't pray for God to give me more wisdom or for any ability in exhorting one another. I'm not earnestly desiring them,

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After reading I Corinthians 13 I was really impacted by how love never ends. Paul's talking about spiritual gifts and moves into chapter 13 explaining that if you do these things but don't have love your works are worthless. Then he moves on describing what true Biblical love is, but ends it by saying, "Love never ends." How awesome is it to consider the fact that we won't need so many things

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I was reading in Truth Matters by John Macarthur this morning and hew as talking about God's holiness and man's response to being in the His presence. He talked about Isaiah and other's who's response was to fall on their face and tremble before a holy God. I saw that stuff coming, but I haven't ever thought about this attribute belonging to Christ (at least not in the same sense). I had never

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I received a word of encouragement from Christ the other day, he told me he was reading in Proverbs and that he was reminded of me. He couldn't remember the verse but his recollection of it was something to the effect that " A wise man overlooks transgression." All I could find in Proverbs that reminds me of this is 29:11 "A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back

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If you consider yourself a Christian, then you are a part of the body of Christ, and whatever part of the body of Christ you may be, you are here for the rest of the body. We are here so that the body of Christ might be better; so we need to be making ourselves better by knowing Christ more and pursuing God more heartily. The closer we are to God the better we will be able to dispense my gifts

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This is my response to someone that I know on the issue of Lordship. I wrote this for him, but I know that anyone that reads this may benefit from this so please be patient and read the whole thing if you're going to read it at all. I am sorry for the length, but it's a big issue and I think that this is a pretty good response. The question I'm responding to is, "Can Christians (believers in

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I listened to a sermon by C.J. Mahaney last week and he was talking about legalism. He was in Galatians and talking about how we nullify what Christ accomplished on the cross, either through legalism as we’d know it or other means, of which I hadn’t thought about. I would normally look at legalism and see someone that would say that you have to do this or that in order to be saved. Or they

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Well it's been a while since I've done anything with this blog, I originally thought it would be a great tool for me to write a journal. I think it would be great tool for me to keep a journal with, but I just need to use it. It's been about a year and a half since I've used this site, much to my dismay. There's so much that God has done in my life that I can share with you, but my human mind

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I thought that I would give everyone the priveledge of hearing my testimony. God has worked in my life in so many ways and I just wanted to share with as many people as possible the goodness and wonders that He has worked in my life.I was lucky enough to be one of the individuals who had the chance to grow up in a loving Christian home. Unfortunately, stupidity won and I didn’t recognize this

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