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“Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight. Be intoxicated (other translations read “enraptured” or “infatuated”) always in her love.” Continue Reading »

We would think it strange if a baby, soother in its mouth, had the same soother three years, six years, twenty years, or fifty years later. We would be right in saying, “this person has some serious troubles.” But how different is it when the baby’s soother simply takes another form, but is still very much a soother?

What is alcoholism, drug use, sexual immorality, obesity, workaholism, or the abuse of the television, cigarettes, coke, coffee, a fancy home, a fancy car, excessive exercise, ETC ETC…what are these for many people, but the adult version of the baby’s soother?

We are still far too easily pleased, and will continue to be unless and until Christ becomes the superior satisfaction of our souls.

We do not forgive well when we are wronged, and we are not quick to forgive either. Does this natural inclination stem from our “old man” nature which at one point did not think it needed cosmic forgivenness? I think so.

Forgiveness is not on the radar of the Christless, but the awakening heart does become alive to its need of it. The lack of a sense for the need of forgiveness comes from a low view of sin, which in turn, and most importantly, flows from a very low view of God. A low or false view of God gives a minimized sense of sin and therefore a minimized sense for the need of forgiveness. And because we have no sense of the gravity of our sin, our heavy need to be forgiven, we naturally are casual about extending forgiveness to others.

For some reason this post did not appear on June 6th when I first submitted it. So let’s try again.

Proverbs 7:1 “My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you.” Continue Reading »

Went to the retreat center in Schuyler, NE on Thursday to spend 24 hours with some friends to discuss how best to Continue Reading »

If we could see as God sees, I wonder how many people would be fish-like in appearance, having swallowed much bait, hook, line and sinker. Continue Reading »

D.A Carson comments, “The one thing we most urgently need in Western Christendom is a deeper knowledge of God. We need to know God better.” p.15  A Call to Spiritual Reformation Continue Reading »

“Blessed is the one who finds wisdom.” Proverbs 3:13

What characterizes the one who finds wisdom is the very pursuit of that wisdom. He is actively hunting after God and the great gift of wisdom. He therefore does not “find wisdom” as he might find a penny on the sidewalk. People do not walk on the sidewalk with the express purpose of finding pennies, but rather happen to bump into them. If our pursuit of wisdom is like that, then we will not become very wise, in the same way that a person will not become rich collecting pennies he happens to find on the sidewalk. So there must be an intentional hunt for wisdom if it is to be found.

Where are you hunting?

Who is the treasure of the universe but Jesus Christ? “In Him all the fullness of deity was pleased to dwell.” (Colossians 1:19) He is the one who “upholds the universe by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3) and in Him all things hold together.”(Colossians 1:17)

And He has revealed Himself in a book!

“He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,” (Proverbs 2:7)  and for those who do not walk in integrity the shield of God’s protection comes down. So seek Him in the smallest of the day’s labors through the pursuit of your own integrity in all things, and enjoy His shielding.

Proverbs 1:33
“…but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”

What a clear call to read and meditate upon sacred scripture. What a gift, to dwell secure in the promise of eternity with God, beginning when He saved us, giving us a heart’s ease we never had before when we were held in death’s grip, sin and fear holding us tightly. What a gift to live without the dread of disaster, to live in the knowledge that disaster may come, but to still live in peace because you know that King Jesus awaits you in and on the other side of disaster.

Therefore “we can confidently say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?’” Hebrews 13:6 and also “O death, where is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55

Amen.