Mark's Blog

"We who preach & write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress. We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding…If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly." Augustine
Grace to all, Mark Hamby

Contributors

Monday, December 31, 2007

Galatians 5:14

Mark

posted by The Lamplighter | 9:33 PM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

as John Eldredge has explained...I am beginning to see more clearly now that the the story of life is that story of the long and brutal assault on our heart by the one who knows what it could be and fears it. Praise the Lord, my strength comes because his loving arms are around me. Yes, I was empty and now, through God's grace, my heart is filled with the Spirit's guidance; with his word! I pray for his mercy. My faith and fellowship continues to grow and I am blessed. I aspire to be worthy of his trust and seek his plan to serve. I pray for your dear family and thank God that he brought me to my neigbour who loves "thy neighbour as thyself."

1/01/2008 7:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Psa 56
To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;
my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.
For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?
I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

1/03/2008 9:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daily Readings from ransomedheart.com

The Heart Is Central
1/8/2008

The heart is central. That I would even need to remind you of this only shows how far we have fallen from the life we were meant to live—or how powerful the spell has been. The subject of the heart is addressed in the Bible more than any other topic—more than “works” or “serve,” more than “believe” or “obey,” more than money and even more than worship. Maybe God knows something we’ve forgotten. But of course—all those other things are matters of the heart. Consider but a few passages:

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deut. 6:5) [Jesus called this the greatest of all the command-ments—and notice that the heart comes first.]

Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Sam. 16:7)

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Luke 12:34)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. (Prov. 3:5)

Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You. (Ps. 119:11 NASB)

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. (Matt 15:8)

For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. (2 Chron. 16:9)

(Waking the Dead, 39-40)


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1/08/2008 11:10 AM  

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home