“Showy clothes and flashy jewlery ill befit the broken and contrite heart and it is a broken and contrite heart for which God looks in the worship of his people.”
Archive for July, 2008
TFL: “The Place and Posture of Christian Women, Part One” *
Posted in Humility with tags Materialism on July 8, 2008 by HarryTFL: "Public Prayer – Its Importance and Scope" *****
Posted in * Favorites, Bible, Salvation, Theology on July 4, 2008 by Harry- Do not demonstrate with signs – pray
- Big “T” and small “F”
- F = framework and T =text
- All of us have some kind of framework from which we come to the bible
- We have to have some kind of system of theology
- We understand it in a trinitarian fashion: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
- Jesus was predicted in the OT and revealed in the gospels
- But when we move beyond that to systems of theology which are the extrapolations of the best of men and we the seek to make our big “F” squeeze this “T” into submission we put ourselves in real danger
- That’s why we need to approach the bible with a big “T” and little “F”, in other words we have to bring our framework underneath the text
- God desires the salvation of all but He has not decreed this or else all would be saved, but not all our saved
- Therefore there is a difference between what God desires and what He decrees
Spurgeon: Backsliding
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Backsliding on July 3, 2008 by HarryJuly 3rd am:
Genesis 41:4
The illfavoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.
Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul. When the caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever. How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires I should soon reach it, but backsliding leaves me still far off from the prize of my high calling, and robs me of the advances which I had so laboriously made. The only way in which all my days can be as the “fat kine,” is to feed them in the right meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. Why should not every year be richer than the past, in love, and usefulness, and joy?-I am nearer the celestial hills, I have had more experience of my Lord, and should be more like Him. O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness of soul; let me not have to cry, “My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!” but may I be well-fed and nourished in Thy house, that I may praise Thy name.
