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14 Is
anything too hard for the Lord? Genesis 18:14 (NIV)
11 “Who
among the gods is like you, O Lord?
Who is like you-- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working
wonders?” Exodus 15:11 (NIV)
8 Moses
bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. 9 “O Lord, if I have found favor
in your eyes,” he said, “then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a
stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your
inheritance.” 10 Then the
Lord said: “I am making a covenant
with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any
nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the
work that I, the Lord, will do for
you. 11 Obey
what I command you today.” Exodus
34:8-11 (NIV)
3 Moses
then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord
spoke of when he said: ‘Among those who
approach me I will show myself holy; in the sight of all the people I will be
honored.’” Aaron remained silent. Leviticus 10:3 (NIV)
12 But
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because
you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the
Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.” Numbers 20:12 (NIV)
39 Acknowledge
and take to heart this day that the Lord
is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. 40 Keep his decrees and commands,
which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children
after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time. Deuteronomy 4:39-40 (NIV)
26 Lift
your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the
starry host one by one, and calls them each by name. Because of his great power
and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and
complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God"? 28 Do you not know? Have you not
heard? The Lord is the everlasting
God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and
his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power
of the weak. 30 Even
youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They
will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will
walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:26-31
(NIV)
18 “Of
what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image that teaches
lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that
cannot speak. 19 Woe to
him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give
guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it. 20 But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the
earth be silent before him.” Habakkuk
2:18-20 (NIV)
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“The Holy Spirit gives the soul a natural
relish for the sweetness of what is holy and for everything that is holy as it
comes into view. He also intensifies a dislike and disgust of everything that
is unholy.” Jonathan
Edwards
“Lord, high and holy,
meek and lowly, You have brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in
the depths but see You in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold
Your glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be
low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite
spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the
crown, that to give is to receive, Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from
deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter Your stars shine; Let me
find Your light in my darkness, Your life in my death, Your joy in my sorrow, Your
grace in my sin, Your riches in my
poverty, Your glory in my valley.” The
Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions
“The
only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is
through the Cross of Christ. There is no
other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy
for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary.
We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy
Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous
cost to God that made all of this ours.
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God,
this price had to be paid. Never accept
a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. The revealed truth of God is that without the
atonement He cannot forgive – He would contradict His nature if He did. The only way we can be forgiven is by being
brought back to God through the atonement of the Cross. God’s forgiveness is possible only in the
supernatural realm……Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you
will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.” Oswald
Chambers
“It is natural for us to wish and to plan, and it is
merciful of the Lord to disappoint our plans and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe or happy until we are
weaned from our own wills and made simply desirous of being directed by His
guidance. Although we understand this we
seldom learn to put it into practice without being trained for a while in the
school of disappointment. The schemes we
form look so plausible and convenient that when they are broken we are ready to
say, ‘What a pity!’ We try again, and
with no better success; we are grieved, and perhaps angry, and plan another,
and so on; eventually, in the course of time, experience and observation begin
to convince us that we are no more able than we are worthy to choose correctly
for ourselves. The Lord’s invitation to
cast our cares upon Him, and His promise to take care of us, appear valuable;
and when we have done planning, His plan in our favor gradually opens, and He
does more and better for us than we could either ask or think. I can hardly recollect a single plan of mine,
which if it had taken place in the time and the way I wanted would, humanly
speaking, have proved my ruin; or at least would have deprived me of the
greater good the Lord had designed for me.
We judge things by their present appearance; but the Lord sees them in
their consequences. If we could do the
same we would be perfectly of His mind; but since we can’t, it is an
unspeakable mercy that He will manage for us, whether we are pleased with His
management or not; and it is regarded as one of His heaviest judgments when He
gives any person up to the way of their own hearts, and to walk according to
their own wisdom.” John Newton
HEART SAVOR
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God is God and there is no other.
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How foolish to serve something created rather than the
Creator, Who is to be eternally praised.
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We are so prone to idolize the lesser things of nature.
