I'm getting married in 41 hours. Oh my gosh. I want to write a profound post on the topic, but right now I'm so frazzle-brained I can hardly think straight. I'm getting married in 2 days. 2 days!
After that, a week in Hawaii.
Then it's back to work, back to the Daily Verse Online, back to blogging... but now I'll have a wife. Sweet.
Pray for me!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Justice
I've been thinking lately about a question I hear posed a lot: how can God punish our finite sins with an infinite punishment (hell)? How is that fair? Here is an analogy that I have used, that even kids can understand.
If your big brother says to you, "Go and do this for me," and you say, "No! I want to do what I want to do," you'll probably get punched or yelled at. But that's it... because he's just your big brother, and disobeying him isn't that big of a deal.
If your parents say to you, "Go and do this for me," and you say, "No! I want to do what I want to do," you'll probably get sent to your room, or spanked. The punishment is greater, because it's important to obey your parents.
If there was a king, and he called you and said to you, "Go and do this for me," and you said, "No! I want to do what I want to do," what do you think would happen then? You would probably get thrown in the dungeon or beheaded, because it's the KING, and you must never disobey the King!
So what do you think should happen to us when the omnipotent, glorious, eternal Sovereign God, King, and Judge of the entire universe, who is infinitely holy and pure and beautiful, who created us for himself, says to us, "Go and do this for me," and we say, "No! I want to do what I want to do!" Surely, infinite woe must be the portion of any soul who would dare to insult the King of the universe to His face.
The severity of the transgression increases with the glory of the One transgressed against. As J.I. Packer wrote, "There can be no small sins against a great God."
Praise God that we have an atonement great enough to cover the height of our iniquity!
If your big brother says to you, "Go and do this for me," and you say, "No! I want to do what I want to do," you'll probably get punched or yelled at. But that's it... because he's just your big brother, and disobeying him isn't that big of a deal.
If your parents say to you, "Go and do this for me," and you say, "No! I want to do what I want to do," you'll probably get sent to your room, or spanked. The punishment is greater, because it's important to obey your parents.
If there was a king, and he called you and said to you, "Go and do this for me," and you said, "No! I want to do what I want to do," what do you think would happen then? You would probably get thrown in the dungeon or beheaded, because it's the KING, and you must never disobey the King!
So what do you think should happen to us when the omnipotent, glorious, eternal Sovereign God, King, and Judge of the entire universe, who is infinitely holy and pure and beautiful, who created us for himself, says to us, "Go and do this for me," and we say, "No! I want to do what I want to do!" Surely, infinite woe must be the portion of any soul who would dare to insult the King of the universe to His face.
The severity of the transgression increases with the glory of the One transgressed against. As J.I. Packer wrote, "There can be no small sins against a great God."
Praise God that we have an atonement great enough to cover the height of our iniquity!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Fatherhood
"We fathers need to step up, to realize that our job does not end at conception, that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one." ~Barack Obama
I strongly disagree with our President on many critical issues, but I rejoice at his statements like this one. Thank you, President Obama, for your vocal commitment to supporting fatherhood. Christians: statements like this from our elected leaders deserve your applaud and support and thankful prayers.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. ~Romans 13:7
I strongly disagree with our President on many critical issues, but I rejoice at his statements like this one. Thank you, President Obama, for your vocal commitment to supporting fatherhood. Christians: statements like this from our elected leaders deserve your applaud and support and thankful prayers.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. ~Romans 13:7
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