Question for Christians:


  • Do you trust that God loves you? Everybody says, oh yes, I’ve known that for a long time. Then just watch the way they live. There’s so much fear, so much anxiety, and so much self-hatred. Faith is a code to accept that Jesus knows my whole life story, every skeleton in my closet, every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty, degradedness darkening my past. Right now he knows my shallow faith, my feeble prayer life, my inconsistent discipleship, and he comes beside me and he says, I dare you to trust. I dare you to trust that I love you, just as you are and not as you should be, because you’re never going to be as you should be. --Brennan Manning

This is how much...


  • ...God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.--John 3:16-18

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Saturday, August 27, 2005

Psalm 13

Dscn4722Sofa.  Late.  Quiet.  Dark.  Told God, I love You.  I don't say that to Him often.  For one thing I know my love is feeble compared to His.  Plus, it just feels awkward; all the human expectations of those words and that relationship...

Thanked Him for some things.  Mind wandered.  Tired.  OK, one more minute.  If there's anything You want to say to me, please say it...

And...I love you.  Really small in the mind (as usual; if the TV had been on I wouldn't have heard it), Him to me.  Awkward.  Personal, for me.  Not theology.

Please, Lord, let's make it personal.

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