“‘And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
20-something guy wandering through this world. Pulled up stakes from Los Angeles after having lived virtually most of my life there, and am now in the heart of Washington DC. I'm not really sure where I'll be in a year or so, but wherever God leads, there I'll go. Life is a grand adventure and I aim to make the best of it. I know I am not here to amuse myself or live life on my terms; I am on a mission to glorify the Lord in word, thought, and deed. I am a sojurner, not of this world, longing for the day when I finally rest my head in the Heavenly Country.
Once I passed through the Wicket Gate, or more accurately, was dragged kicking and screaming through it. Only afterwards was it made manifest the great mercy that had been shown to me, and how a life of slavery to Him who loved me first was true freedom indeed. It is a marvelous, unfathomably awing and humbling experience to be in the presence of the Almighty, and to be called His own. I am far from perfect, and am daily reminded of my fallibility and sinful nature, yet my hope is in Jesus Christ alone, the spotless Lamb of God, my great and wonderful Savior. All praise and honor and glory be unto Christ alone, my Lord and my God, forever and ever! Ask me anything Submit
Once I passed through the Wicket Gate, or more accurately, was dragged kicking and screaming through it. Only afterwards was it made manifest the great mercy that had been shown to me, and how a life of slavery to Him who loved me first was true freedom indeed. It is a marvelous, unfathomably awing and humbling experience to be in the presence of the Almighty, and to be called His own. I am far from perfect, and am daily reminded of my fallibility and sinful nature, yet my hope is in Jesus Christ alone, the spotless Lamb of God, my great and wonderful Savior. All praise and honor and glory be unto Christ alone, my Lord and my God, forever and ever! Ask me anything Submit
June 15, 2011
Weaker Vessel: "be killing sin or it will be killing you"
June 15, 2011
Love of Money
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
(Hebrews 13:5 ESV)
June 1, 2011
Marriage
I want a woman who loves the Lord and who would care for me, as I would care for her. There are plenty of nice, godly girls at church whom I get along with great, but I don’t feel anything beyond the brotherly ties of affection for them. I’ve prayed about it but I am not attracted to any of them in that way, I guess. Does this mean I should be looking elsewhere? At any rate, I need to be patient and keep waiting upon the Lord. Please pray that I be content with my life circumstances and not allow myself to get discouraged or lose sight of all the ways that God has abundantly blessed me. Also, please pray that, God’s purpose for my life, marriage-wise would be made abundantly clear to me.
May 25, 2011
awesome movie. why can’t they make more quality films like they did back in the day?
(Source: thephantomasthmatic)
May 25, 2011
May 25, 2011
Psalm 86
A Psalm of Supplication and Trust.
A Prayer of David.
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me;
For I am afflicted and needy.
Preserve my soul, for I am a godly man;
O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You.
Be gracious to me, O Lord,
For to You I cry all day long.
Make glad the soul of Your servant,
For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.
Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;
And give heed to the voice of my supplications!
In the day of my trouble I shall call upon You,
For You will answer me.
There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord,
Nor are there any works like Yours.
All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord,
And they shall glorify Your name.
For You are great and do wondrous deeds;
You alone are God.
Teach me Your way, O LORD;
I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your name.
I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
And will glorify Your name forever.
For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Oh grant Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.
Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
May 25, 2011
On Being Human
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence
Behold the Forms of nature. They discern
Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities
Which mortals lack or indirectly learn.
Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying,
Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear,
High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal
Huge Principles appear.
The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of
Arboreal life, how from earth’s salty lap
The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness
Enacted by leaves’ fall and rising sap;
But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance
Of sun from shadow where the trees begin,
The blessed cool at every pore caressing us
-An angel has no skin.
They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it
Drink the whole summer down into the breast.
The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing
Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest.
The tremor on the rippled pool of memory
That from each smell in widening circles goes,
The pleasure and the pang —can angels measure it?
An angel has no nose.
The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes
On death, and why, they utterly know; but not
The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries.
The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot
Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate
Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf’s billowy curves,
Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges.
—An angel has no nerves.
Far richer they! I know the senses’ witchery
Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see;
Imminent death to man that barb’d sublimity
And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be.
Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior,
This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares
With living men some secrets in a privacy
Forever ours, not theirs.
-C.S. Lewis
May 25, 2011
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
— Matthew 6:33
May 25, 2011
May 25, 2011
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