January 2010
16 posts
Christianese #8
chrislazo:
grace |grās|
noun
1 (theology) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.
2 (christianese explained) when God in His reckless and bizarre compassion effectively turns you back from the destructive course you keep choosing, and opens your eyes to the pleasure of His infinite worth (without which you would...
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Remember the Word
Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. - Psalm 119:49,50
We whom are in the Lord have many promises, the greatest and most amazing of all is the Grace of God that we are promised Eternal Life.
Let us not forget and not put that promise to waste.
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Seek Him
“I sought him, but I found him not” - Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and fin him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy...
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a...
– Jeremiah 17:7,8 (ESV)
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Dismantled and Repaired
“Hands, like secrets, are the hardest thing to keep from you Lines and phrases, like knives, your words can cut me through Dismantle me down (repair) You dismantle me You dismantle me”
-Anberlin “Dismantle/Repair”
Amazing song, and this part is always my favorite.
Reminds me of Hebrews 4:12,13 - For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged...
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Thus says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the...
– Jeremiah 9: 23,24
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Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free....
– Psalm 118:5-6