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Isaiah 1:1-2:22 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:1-18 ~ Psalm 52:1-9 ~ Proverbs 22:26-27
So David is speaking here and he says God’s justice continues forever. Don’t you realize that? It is a foreboding statement in the context. Yet, as we read it today, I thought, well, that is actually a very, very good thing. That is incredibly good news. God’s justice continues on forever because Christ’s sacrifice once and for all paid the penalty of sin, set the scales right. It was the just thing. He, as sin...[More]
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Created by
Chet
on
9/8/2010
"When did I become a leader?"
I had that question asked to me via text message last night by a teenage friend of mine. I had mentioned to her about how a little prayer ministry she was championing didn't have anybody except little old me show up this past week while she had been away. "But I don't want people doing something just because I want them to do it," she said. "I want them to want to do it themselves!"
How common is that desire in the heart of so many people. We find something we a...[More]
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As I ponder the phrase, "Create a Clean Heart in Me", these things stand out to me:
"Create a Clean Heart"
As the fourth verse indicates, sin is always ultimately against God. Even one's sin in a lateral sense, towards others, is always ultimately against God - because He is the Creator and Sustainer of all things.
Having said that, however, sin wreaks havoc with our heart! Like rust on an automobile, and a limb eaten away with a deadly disease, it can never be restored to what it had b...[More]
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Ah! Here God shares His heart about one of the basic struggles of leadership – keeping those who follow and have appreciated our example, from making their love for us into something robotic, mechanical, unresponsive, unfeeling, humorless, unemotional, cold, lifeless, boring, dull, and uninteresting!
As I wrote in an earlier journal entry, Jesus modeled an excellent plan to keep love alive, by using his last meal with his disciples on earth to actually picture his sacrifice of love, in obedienc...[More]
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