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"Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose you life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
"I admit that this means loving people who have nothing lovable about them. But then, has oneself anything lovable about it?You love it simply because it is yourself. God intends us to love all selves in the same way and for the same reason: but He has given us the sum ready worked out in our own case to show us how it works. We have then to go on and apply the rule to all the other selves. Perhaps it makes it easier if we remember that that is how He loves us. Not for any nice, attractive qualities we thing we have, but just because we are the things called selves. For really there is nothing else in us to love:creatures like us who actually find hatred such a pleasure that to give it up is like giving up beer or tobacco."
C.S Lewis
Mere Christianity
Psalm 23 [Explained]
The Lord is my Shepherd
That’s Relationship!I shall not want
That’s Supply!He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
That’s Rest!He leadeth me beside the still waters.
That’s Refreshment!He restoreth my soul
That’s Healing!He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.
That’s Guidance!For His name sake
That’s Purpose!Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
That’s Testing!I will fear no evil.
That’s Protection!For Thou art with me
That’s Faithfulness!Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me,
That’s Discipline!Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
That’s Hope!Thou anointest my head with oil,
That’s Royalty!My cup runneth over.
That’s Abundance!Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
That’s Blessing!And I will dwell in the house of the Lord.
That’s Security!Forever!
That’s Eternity!
Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin would look on me with love and watch me rise again?
Casting Crowns - Who am I
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
C.S. Lewis (via scarroll48)
Wow, all that we are, all that humanity became, and becomes Jesus took on, to make the world, to make creation right with God.
Father’s Love Letter
Your Father
- You may not know me, but I know everything about you…. Psalm 139:1
- Even the very hairs on your head are numbered…. Matt 10:29-31
- For you were made in my image…. Gen 1:27
- I knew you even before you were conceived…. Jer 1:4
- I chose you when I planned creation…. Ephesians 1:11
- And I knit you together in your mother’s womb…. Psalm 139:13
- You are not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book…. Psalm 139:16
- I determined when you would be born and where you would live…. Acts 17:26
- Because I love you with an everlasting love…. Jer 31:3
- I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me…. John 8:41-44
- I am not distant and angry but am the complete expression of love… 1 John 4:16
- And it is my desire to lavish my love on you…. 1 John 3:1
- For every good gift that you receive comes from my hand…. James 1:17
- I offer you more than your earthly father ever could…. Matt 7:11
- Because I am the perfect Father…. Matt 5:48
- And I am the provider who meets all your needs…. Matt 6:11-33
- My plan for your future has always been filled with hope…. Jer 29:11
- My thoughts toward you are as countless as the sands on the seashore…. Psalm 139:17,18
- And I rejoice over you with singing…. Zeph 3:17
- I will never stop doing good to you…. Jer 32:40
- For you are my treasured possession…. Exodus 19:5
- Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart…. Psalm 37:4
- For it is I who gave you those desires….. Phil 2:13
- I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine…. Eph 3:20,21
- For I am your greatest encourager…. 2 Thess 2:16,17
- I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles…. 2 Cor 1:3,4
- When you are brokenhearted I am close to you…. Psalm 34:18
- As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart…. Isaiah 40:11
- One day I will wipe every tear from your eyes…. Rev 21:3,4
- Because I love you even as I love my son, Jesus…. John 17:23
- For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed… John 17:23
- He is the exact representation of my being…. Heb 1:3
- He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you…. Romans 8:31
- And to tell you that I am not counting your sins…. 2 Co 5:18,19
- Jesus died so that we could be reconciled….. 2 Cor 5:18,19
- His death was my ultimate expression of love for you…. 1 John 4:10
- I gave up everything that I loved to gain your love…. Romans 8:31,32
- If you receive the gift of my Son you receive me…. 1 John 2:23
- And nothing will ever separate you from my love again…. Romans 8:38,39
- Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen…. Luke 15:7
- I have always been Father, and will always be Father…. Eph 3:14,15
- My question is…. Will you be my child? John 1:12,13
- I am here if you ever want to talk….
