I wear the chains I forged in life.
The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.
Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.
It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.
Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
My cranky cardiologist says I'm destined to die in the kitchen.
What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.