The headline aks the following question: The women's field for March Madness is officially set. Any surprises?
answer: yes, who gave march madness to women's basketball?!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Read 1 John
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him”—
but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2.9&10
The idea of sharing glory with God is exciting, convicting, empowering, terrifying. 1 Corinthians says that God’s secret wisdom is a wisdom that God has destined for our glory. 1 John says that when God appears we will be like Him! With the gift of the Holy Spirit we are no longer in the dark regarding God’s wisdom, it has been revealed to us by His Spirit. Still, we are not yet like God because we have not yet seen Him as He is in completion. We are in limbo. Even so, we are not clueless, for we know his secret wisdom; may we live accordingly. How can I do this? By living in the Spirit. Romans 8:5 “…but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” 1 Corinthians 2:11 “…no one knows the thoughts of God except by the Spirit of God.” And verse 12, “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” It is God’s desire to bring us to glory alongside himself through the Spirit. This can only be accomplished through prayer and devotion. This era has a difficult time acknowledging the idea of a romance between man and God, but there is no greater love story. WE are His bride, and prayer is the mode by which we are able to pursue our love. May I recognize God’s pursuit of me and be compelled to pursue Him in return, and one day be like Him.
"To please God... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness...to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son--it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."
-C.S. Lewis
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him”—
but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2.9&10
The idea of sharing glory with God is exciting, convicting, empowering, terrifying. 1 Corinthians says that God’s secret wisdom is a wisdom that God has destined for our glory. 1 John says that when God appears we will be like Him! With the gift of the Holy Spirit we are no longer in the dark regarding God’s wisdom, it has been revealed to us by His Spirit. Still, we are not yet like God because we have not yet seen Him as He is in completion. We are in limbo. Even so, we are not clueless, for we know his secret wisdom; may we live accordingly. How can I do this? By living in the Spirit. Romans 8:5 “…but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” 1 Corinthians 2:11 “…no one knows the thoughts of God except by the Spirit of God.” And verse 12, “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” It is God’s desire to bring us to glory alongside himself through the Spirit. This can only be accomplished through prayer and devotion. This era has a difficult time acknowledging the idea of a romance between man and God, but there is no greater love story. WE are His bride, and prayer is the mode by which we are able to pursue our love. May I recognize God’s pursuit of me and be compelled to pursue Him in return, and one day be like Him.
"To please God... to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness...to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son--it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."
-C.S. Lewis
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