Who Commands the Morning?

Today I received letter from a future Navy Seal. I am so proud of his vision, his heart to lead, to serve his country and foremost God.
Good news to hear he gets lead with a friend of mine in their training. I hope they will get to be friends.

I received a phone call from a sad friend last night. She believes her dating relationship is coming to an end possibly. I made a lasagna dinner with salad and garlic bread. I cried, prayed with her, and sat with her as we listened to music of encouragement to her soul. I was glad to help a friend and carry her burden for her. I wanted to obey God's command to "carry one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2). I am thankful that God will receive my worship with human imperfections; it is an offering.

So I have been thinking about that dreaded character flaw, PRIDE (is found popping up in my life many times). I helped someone move a couple of weeks ago that I thought was proud . She was responding to me like nothing I or others did was good enough. I felt like she was on pins and needles over nothing that went wrong. She never thanked anyone for the help or the free lunch and drinks that was provided. She was self absorbed and inward focused. I don't know her well so it may be that she isn't like this at all.
Not only this, I had another moment of confrontation/reflection in my own heart. I thought about 2 friends of mine that expressed that they were sick. I offered to drop by and leave Lemon Ginger Yogi tea on the front porch of their house because it is soothing and I have taken it to friends in the past and they said it made them feel better. But I believe these friends are so used to not anyone taking too much care of them. I feel like there is self sufficiency and pride going on their own lives when they don't allow someone to help them or receive help wether they believe it would help or not (found repeatedly in my life in past). When my friends refused to accept my help I then saw how it also takes away the blessing in my "giving". It simply one way of storing up your treasures in heaven. Maybe God rewards the "wanting to give" as a way of storing up eternal treasures for His glory.
These were good lessons for me because I now see clearer what the whole cycle of PRIDE and how it results in one sense prevent receiving blessing and hurting others.

I sent the following verses to my sad friend who received my care for her heart. Not my words but the words that bring LIFE and are like a sword penetrating to the marrow of her bones. There is no truer word to fill her woeful voids of her heart but Jesus word's himself.

I Peter 1:13
"Therefore gird your minds for action, keep sober in spirit , FIX your your hope completely on the grace tot be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ"

Job 38
"Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Now gird up your loins like a man
And I will as you, and you instruct Me!
Where were you when I lad the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding
Who set its measurements since you know?
or who stretched the line on it?
On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Or who enclosed the sea with doors,
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;
When I made a cloud its garment ,
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
And I placed boundaries on it,
And I set a bolt and doors,
And I said, Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
And here shall your proud waves
stop?"


"Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, and caused the dawn to know its place;
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?
It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand forth like a garment
And from the wicked their light is withheld
and their uplifted arm is broken.
Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked int the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been
revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this

Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is this place, That you may take it to its territory,
And that you may discern the paths to its home?
You know, for you were born then, And the number of your days is great!

Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
Which I have reserved for the time of distress,
For the day of war and battle?
Where is the way that the light is divided
Or the east wind scattered on the earth?....."

No Time Like the Present

I put "journal" down for a while. But I am thinking I should pick it up again and write. One, for the encouragement of other souls out there. People are lonely, want truth and someone to sit at the table and talk honestly, here and now with them. Two, purpose of working through my thoughts and reflection of past, present, and future.
I want to leave a mark and maybe a legacy of Hope that is not void and fills completely.

Today I was thinking about a book that I loaned to my girlfriend, Chasing Daylight by Eugene O'Kelly, CEO of KPMG. It was a very good book, moving and forces anyone to take a second look at how your living all your days on earth. I sometimes get weary living as if everyday were a "vapor". But the the good thing is, God gives me all that I need to live for today and each day. If I don't accomplish all that I hoped...God will still use my weakness or my inadequacies. God want to use weak people for doing Great things. That is the kind of God that we have. We all start as weak anyhow being the nature of creatures we are in comparison the great Creator of the Universe. I was reading 31 days of praise by Ruth Meyers just now (mom and dad gave me). "CH. Spurgeon wrote, Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise: they are simply the bass notes of our life song, "to God be the glory".

Is. 43:4 "You are precious in My eyes, and honored and I love you." This is what Jesus thinks of me!

Earth day

March 24th, 2010
Woke up early to the morning rain. Ran 5k race in Downtown Greer. Perfect conditions and great course. I surprisingly won 1st place with a time of 22:30 (I even stopped to tie my shoe lace).
Helped a man who collapsed by the wayside in the 1/2 Marathon and comforted his wife as they EMS helped them to the ambulence. Then I went to one of my favorite Breakfast spots, Tommy's Ham House (off of Poinsett Highway). Studied for a Pediatric Certification Test. Had Brooke over to watch Lost (like a horror movie on an Island of Paradise).
Now, here I am winding down to the sound of the rain falling outside my window. I love the rain!! Has a been an enjoyable day in so many ways.

Church is tomorrow. I want to prepare my heart for whatever God has for me. "Speak Oh Lord..." We are studying I John 2:28 right now.
In Care group we studied What it means to be Born in God. It means it exhibits itself in Living like HIm, practicing righteousness, hoping in Him. God's seed lives in me. It is like spring when you see all your plants and trees go dormant over the cold winter months and thinking it impossible new growth will return. Each year it amazes me that God brings growth for new flowers and buds and more abundantly than years before. ie.i had to divide my daylilies.
I once opposed God in everyway. How great my Father loves me when he chooses to place all His righteousness on me, take me as His child, and claim me with overflowing, lavish love for eternity. Why would the Father choose to love me, who did not choose Him and I OPPOSED Him? I could never love God with any small ounce of myself. He broke through and shattered my darkness (as it seems like a song I heard) and He made a dead man/women Live!

This sermon reminds me of a time when I read the book of Hebrews. I felt my heart challenged...what I was reading was asking me questions and testing my faith in God....leaving somewhere around Chapter 8 with tears....I think I felt conviction. What life am I living in relationhip to God? How am i living in eternal sense? If I am going to live....why live it partial? Whey not live fully? Will I look back with regrets?

Also on another note I was reminded the other night as I was talking to my friend to remember to view life from day-to-day of what are the possibilities of living life outside the box. It does not have to be the same old daily grind but it can be fun and playful and hard work too.

Meditations and C.S. Lewis Biography by John Piper

My Meditations

Colossians 3:1-5
"If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of the God. Set you mind on things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed which amounts to idolatry. "
I need to hear this.

Revelation 4
Scene of Heaven-John's Vision on the island as an old man about to die.

“The sweetest thing of all my life has been the longing . . . to find the place where all the beauty came from.” But when Lewis was born again to see the glory of God in Christ, he never said again that he didn’t know where the beauty came from. Now he knew where all the joy was pointing. On the last page of his autobiography, he explained the difference in his experience of Joy now and before.

I believe . . . that the old stab, the old bittersweet, has come to me as often and as sharply since my conversion as at any time of my life whatever. But I now know that the experience, considered as a state of my own mind, had never had the kind of importance I once gave it. It was valuable only as a pointer to something other and outer. While that other was in doubt, the pointer naturally loomed large in my thoughts. When we are lost in the woods the site of the signpost is a great matter. He who first sees it cries, ‘Look!’ The whole party gathers around and stares. But when we have found the road and are passing signposts every few miles, we shall not stop and stare. They will encourage us and we shall be grateful to the authority that set them up. But we shall not stop and stare, or not much; not on this road, though their pillars are of silver and their lettering of gold. ‘We would be at Jerusalem.’

No Good Does God keep from me

Today is such a Beautiful Day. Shortly I will go outside and enjoy this blue sky, warm sun, and dusting of clouds.
I woke up this morning, went to boot camp-did our challenging workout (crunches, running, pushups, running, climbers, running, flutter kicks, running, planks, running, and so on for a full hour) I know it is good for me. I am so thankful that Rick and Lucia offer to do this for free.

I don't have much time to write what is all on my mind....but for now all I can do is write in these words that I am Trusting the Lord to take all that I have into His loving Hands...the same hands that were nailed to the Cross. The same Heart that chose to love me first. He is my Father and I will never understand more than my Father. That is the design and order of life as God of all Heaven and Earth is Sovereign and is the Creator of all the Universe. I know His mind is far beyond any comprehension or understanding that my frail, small, peon speck of dust of matter will ever grasp in this life on earth.

I pray the following in the example of George Mueller as he also faced multiple crossroads of His life. "God I don't have Faith unless you give it to me now. I pray for Grace to Trust YOU, Oh Sovereign Father of my life. You are Trustworthy Lord. You are good in feast and famine. Will I only see your goodness when I think it is good that I see? Will you give me "_________" that it may Honor and give you Glory to your name for the rest of our days? As long as you have given us breath will you allow us to serve You with all our hearts, soul, and mind.... nothing less than full sacrifice of love for You, others, and our family. May your Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!"

"a man plans his ways, but the Lord directs His paths." Words of encouragement given Yesterday by my dear Pastor and "Bro" Matt, whom God has chosen as one to Shepherd my heart.

Love Note

Dear God...You loved me first with an everlasting love. I don't know why because I am just a little spek or dust mite compared to you. Thank you for everlasting life. The "New heaven and New earth". You will bring me into a perfect blissful state when I gaze forever on you face for eternity. You gave Your Son to me as a Full atoning sacrifice. A one time sacrifice. You perfectly unite me to you Lord. Spirit and Truth. Lord, I desire Truth in all parts. To live a glimmering resemblance of you. Will you be my husband all my life? I take you, I accept you.

John Vision

Oh God, your Temple is here...you came as a Person in your fullness to earth and lived a perfect spotless life. Your Power to save me and all men now to the uttermost. Your Proclamation of the gospel raises the dead alive and forever. Your People gather as the remnant that remain.



I love this....Revelation 21:1&22
v.1 "Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea."

v.22 "But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple."

meditation on Jim Britt's sermon.

Worship the Lord

Sunday Sermon
When we look at the Sun, we are awaken by the Sun.
We could say the same about God. When I look at the Son, I am awaken by the Son.
Right thoughts about God should evoke a right response.
Revelation 4:10 "Elders will fall before Him, who sits on the throne and will worship HIm who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Worthy are Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou didst create all things , and because of Thy will they existed and were created."

Book-Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoffer- "Jesus said, 'ye are the salt of the World'...It is not for the disciples to decide whether they will be salt of the earth, for they are so whether they like it or not, they have been made salt by the call they have received."

Thanksgiving Day

Listening to David Barton speak on Focus on the Family

Thanksgiving started because of the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth, Ma. It was a very cold winter and they lost about half of their colony. The Indians gave them food and supplies. They wanted to always remember a Day of Thanksgiving to God specifically because of providing and bringing them this far. They refer to multiple scripture passages on how they want to be like the Israelites before entering the land of Canaan. Moses warned them to always remember what God has done for them so that they would not live unfruitful lives.
Listening to the story of the Pilgrims settling, the forming of our Nation, Congress, Letters that John Adams wrote to his Abigail, and the careful thought of establishing Independence from Britain. America started with leaders revering and crediting God for His protection and blessing on America.
We are the most blessed nation in the World (I am truly convinced) and I believe that our Founding Fathers are the reason for all that God has given us today.

I am Thankful for:
1.Free country: worship and learn of God where i choose, have a job in the career path I choose, Go to the doctor and dentist I choose
2. Family
3. Church
4. My Salvation: Christ died for me to have a relationship with me, saved me, loves me. (I realize I did not list this first but I will leave it in this sequence to remind me that I take Him for granted and that I don't know enough what Christ saved me from and did for me and that I more than likely I need to spend time reminding myself about that in comparison of owning anything else in life or its treasures)

A white porch swing

There is something wonderful about a white porch swing. You never know what memories may be built with your friend on a bench that swings back and forth.
I have looked high and low for a great bargain on a swing. I found a man selling swings on Craig's list. So I went to Spartenburg to pick it up for $75.00. I painted it white and hired my friend to hang the swing.
I swung on it tonight and thought about all the friends I will get to spend time sharing thoughts, talking, laughing, and spend quality time fellow shipping. I thought about how wonderful to be outside on a summer night talking to a friend, I thought about maybe one day I will sit beside my husband sharing hours of thoughts dreams, and enjoying the hours of life together. I thought about the crickets at night that will chime as I sit and unwind on my swing.

I am thankful for my white porch swing. :)

Philippians 3

It is 1049 at night.
I am thirsting for HIM, the all sufficient loving Father and Saviour of the world, can ONLY satisfy my life. It is the unending, deepest ocean of Christ's love that is a depth without bottom and without shores(thought from a J.Piper quote).

I think about Paul in prison. He did not lose vision of the Truth of Christ and promised future. He was tenacious in mind (by his yielding to the Spirits work in his life) keeping his mind on Christ. One goal, strain, bend. He wanted "to KNOW Christ and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death." Christ took hold of him and he reminds me, Christ took hold of me. There is a call for all believers. Leave ALL BEHIND: reputation, anxieties, worldliness, in morality, unforgiveness, dark pasts, anything the "weighs" us down. Leave it all behind and say to Satan what God promises. It is true..."may I be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ,...that I may know Him, and the power of His Resurrection from the dead."
Paul was in a cold prison, dirt layered on his body, prison guards surrounding him, and never stops to "fume" or have a "pity party" or complain to anyone. He is more focused on the church. He calls himself the "bond servant of Jesus Christ to all the saints of Christ Jesus".
I want my love "to abound more and more in real knowledge and all discernment and approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ Jesus."


Prayer to you Father:
Will you help me to be all surrendered to you my Father-passionate on this earth for you? I realize now that I may have some radical breaking ties to rid sin in my life (knowing sin comes in the shape of more than just one). Lord I ask you will search my heart. I want to yield in every area. Not just what I choose.
I am your child and I can be confident and bold because I am in You: My Rock, Saviour of the World, Emmanuel, Stronghold, Lover of my soul, my Abba Father. There is nothing more truer than you. There is no exchange in life better than YOU.
So father instruct my heart to be conformed to the image of your Son Jesus Christ. I want to leave the opinions of man behind every minute of my day and be of one mind and focus on You. I need your discernment in speech and actions, will you help me with your Power. I want to point this lost world to you. Father I feel like I don't do well representing you in my life now. Will you help me to be genuine, focused as I "run this race".

The sky is so Blue

....it is morning and I wake to think about what my caregroup talked about last night. I made it at the end. What are joy robbers in our life? being selfish, letting our minds wander into ungodly thinking, letting our emotions rule our thinking,....
We talked about heaven and keeping the eternal perspective...
I wake up today with the fight for joy and pondering what heaven will be like....


the sky is so blue, reminding me to look up...what this life will not offer and what Christ gives is greater....

Shelter in the Storm

Words and Music by Steve & Vikki Cook and Bob Kauflin

Verse 1 I have a shelter in the storm
When troubles pour upon me
Though fears are rising like a flood
My soul can rest securely
O Jesus, I will hide in You
My place of peace and solace
No trial is deeper than Your love
That comforts all my sorrows

Verse 2 I have a shelter in the storm
When all my sins accuse me
Though justice charges me with guilt
Your grace will not refuse me
O Jesus, I will hide in You
Who bore my condemnation
I find my refuge in Your wounds
For there I find salvation

Verse 3 I have a shelter in the storm
When constant winds would break me
For in my weakness, I have learned
Your strength will not forsake me
O Jesus, I will hide in You
The One who bears my burdens
With faithful hands that cannot fail
You’ll bring me home to heaven


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for the cause of Christ-true sacrifice

This is from Adoniram Judson's letter to his proposed father-in-law.

"I have now to ask, whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world; whether you can consent to her departure, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of missionary life; whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean, to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all of this, for the sake of him who left his heavenly home, and died for her and for you; for the sake of perishing immortal souls; for the sake of Zion, and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with the crown of righeousness, brightened with the acclamations of praise which shall redound to here Savior from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?"

Leveling of Self

My heart longs for a reality of depth and radicalism. Unashamed proclamation of Jesus, "the filler" who is capable to breath life into the corner of every Believing and Disbelieving soul. However He will use me, a very flawed tool, to be an extension or display one glimpse of His rays. I would gladly be a little reflection of God if that is the only ray of light that penetrates so far as to reach beyond myself and miraculously into the dark corners of captive souls. Maybe one has never seen a directness, a trueness such as this in all their lives, satiates our thirst, a riveting of the soul. Let it be the first or hundredth time to come back and say, "that Christ would give Himself unconditionally for me?".
I want to speak the Truth that awakens the eyes (exalting and directing man to the "I am" , "the Way", "the Life". Oh what great relief of all burdens to delight and to face "the Truth"). I call all to put away mine (yours) anything that gets in the way of self, blindness, and allow ourselves to be completely surrendered of everything in our lives; a complete "leveling" of ourselves to the ground. It is just you and God, it is not an "act" before Him.
I love the word "crap" lately so I will use it now to express so clearly what I feel. "Acting" is such "crap". Crap is building up a beautiful painted picture of ourselves that is not really who Iam, to others around you-"blessed are the humble for they shall see God" (I would like to add and they will see the crap load of falsehood in their own lives because they are examining themselves in the "mirror of God" and not self). Crap is not calling what you know to be Sin and rationalizing it away to be profitable or almost biblically "excellent" when it actually causes you to slightly or completely fall-"flee every tempation". Crap is wasting your life on laziness-"redeem the time,for the days are evil", crap is aloofness to the people that God has placed in your life-"as you do unto them, you do unto me", crap is not forgiving and letting go of wrongs done to you-"love your neighbor as yourself", "let not the sun go down on your wrath".
I have sinned in all these areas of crap. Or thought about sinning in these areas that comes from pride and self-righteous thinking. The bottom line is that I want to face my sin, repent and turn to God to help me change. His Truth is powerful for change to get rid of the crap more and more. Picture of Sanctification. I Need friends to speak Truth to me and objectively speak into my life besides my own view (which I hear is vital importance but often not demonstrated among Christians-easier to gossip). Yes, I have very high opinion of me and I don't want to face seeing my flaws, the hard work to change, the actual Obedience God calls me to devote my life to and that I actually have to Obey rather than live in my own fading pleasures of the easy life but unfulfilling.
It is too late to live life over again.
I pray that God will let the fire of refinement take away my dross(crap).



Read to my Aunt yesterday.
Samuel Francis Hymn

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Vast unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me, is the current
Of Thy love
Leading onward, leading homeward to
Thy glorious rest above!

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth
never, nevermore!
How He watches o'er His loved ones,
died to call them all His own
how for them He intercedeth, watcheth
o'er them from the throne!

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus,
'Tis a heav'n of heav'ns to me
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!

By Your Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J95rAr0gOFU&feature=related



Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life


Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go



By Your Side
Tenth Avenue South

My Aunt Marrianne

My Aunt Marrianne was diagnosed with Pancreatic and Liver cancer yesterday.
My dad left a message for me to call him ASAP when I get off of work. There are only now a couple of reasons I can think of this combination of emotion relayed by my father of urgency and somberness. Now his sister is dying. Prognosis is poor, a double hit from two sides, Pancreatic, one of the fastest growing cancers and invasion of two different organs.
Life is passing quickly. I can see it vividly. I am not at the age of my parents, but it is not just fleeting thought these days like before. It is a steady and fast progression("a breath") towards Heaven and seeing my heavenly Father one day beyond this fading earth.

I will try to visit her this Friday.
What will I do? She loves drinking tea, a small biscuit (my dad suggested), old book, talk of rich hymns, read a piece of her mother's diary, knit, look at old pictures, or just sit and enjoy being together. She is a home body more than any person I know in the Cassidy family. She enjoys comforts and warm lights in a cool quiet place. She welcomes me gladly to sit and talk anytime like one of her own and impart her years of wisdom. I love you Aunt Marrianne.

When He Returns

I know I look through this "glass darkly" and "soon" Christ will come for me. Now I must live all to the glory of God, completely, with every breath.

I wrote this letter for Jennifer and Andrew on their Wedding Day.

December 27, 2008 at 11:00
Jennifer and Andrew Dixon made a Covenant to Love each other.

Dear Andrew and Jennifer,

I remember when I met you about a year ago. You both were new in attending our singles care group. You had visited a few months and then shortly after was the break up. Jennifer, I know you were dumbfounded and spent hours either in your room sulking, reading your bible or praying to God. Many times I remember hearing you talk about how you believed simply that God always had Andrew for you. Even though this break was complete at the time, it was like nothing had ever changed in Jennifer’s mind; you loved Andrew the same and months later. Andrew, you were spending your days sitting at the feet of Jesus, surrendering yourself to the hands of God with much prayer and that was your focus.

Jennifer, I have always felt very comfortable and at home with you. I have appreciated the time we have spent together, talking over coffees at Liquid Highway, sitting at the pool, and walking outside...you are like friend that I never lost time to pick up where we left off last.

Andrew, I have always considered you like a dear brother. You have a passion for God and live it fully, here, and now. God will use you to spur others in the truth (continue to have passion for knowing and studying God’s Word carefully). You are a affecting the lives of those around you even now. I believe God wants to use you in a wonderful unique way that others will not be able to. I love the watching the testimony of CHANGE that is blaring in your life today. You shine brilliantly in the contrast of knowing where you came and who you are in and because of Christ. Thank God for the power of this testimony to believers and unbelievers.

We have good memories to look back on this past year. Fall hikes, amusement parks, playing games, singing Masquerade professional opera style, Roman studies, and care groups. These will be treasured memories.


My prayer for you...
God as Jennifer and Andrew begin this life together. We acknowledge and rejoice in your work that you have a purposefully brought them together. Thank you for Andrew and the powerful testimony from his life and Jennifer the opportunity she now has to follow him in serving beside him. I pray for Andrew as he loves Jennifer, as Christ loves the Church, that Jennifer will feel his pleasure. I pray for Jennifer as she loves Andrew that, he will feel her pleasure. I pray that you will give them a selfless for each other and a love for You God above all else. I pray that you will use Andrew and Jennifer to draw men to your wonderful gospel, your name be glorified. In Jesus Name.
Amen.

I love you.
Wendy

no comparison to seven miles deep

Rom 5:20 "Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."

"our effort to taste, to see, to enjoy, to admire the glory of God now is like taking a a little thimble to spoon out the Pacific Ocean, if you enlarge the thimble to the size of the Pacific Ocean, it would still be a thimble compared to the Ocean of the Glory of God which has No shores and No bottom."
John Piper

Infinite duration to taste and see the glory of God....

Romans

"if you are not made compassionate by your self understanding as fallen; you don't know yet how bad you are, and how good God is to you"

Jonathon Edwards
"this docterine teaches us to think no worse of others than of ourselves; it teaches us that we are all companions in a miserable helpless condition which under a revelation of divine mercy tend to produce mutuel compassion and nothing has a greater tendancy to promote those amiable dispositions of mercy forebearance, long-suffering, gentleness, and forgiveness than a sense of our own extreme unworthiness and misery and the infinite need of divine pity and forbearance and forgiveness together for with the hope of obtaining mercy"