The wrong road never
Reaches the Right destination! -eab, 12/10/08
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Wrong Ends Wrong
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God Revealed Himself
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God could have lived a “million miles” away,
Have been there eons–“eons and a day.”
He could have lived, and flourished, permeating space,
Could have gone on, all happy in Himself,
(“Creation” sitting idly on His shelf.)
Would He have still supremely been all God?
ALL GOD He’d been, without man or man’s sod.
Or–could’ve made an orphaned human race;
No intervention–oddly out of place–
Afloat upon forsaken seas; a-flound’ring, lost.
He could’ve wound Deistic clocks “and walked.”
He could’ve never signaled, never talked.
And left man seeking something ‘kin to light,
But destined to a Godless, endless night.
Instead, at heightened, priceless, most-rare cost,
God chose His wealth “to tap”? No! To exhaust!
He sent His Only –after mortal men had failed.
Almighty God allowed mere man to see,
His sovereign purpose from eternity.
No man has yet “discovered God” — man’s ill.
His Revelation was His perfect will.
This Christmas revel in Christ, rightly hailed.
Rejoice! God’s Revelation has prevailed.
All glory, honor, grateful praise; Christ has travailed.
A Personal Pentecost is also made
Available through pow’r which cannot fade.
Revealed is God, through Christ. Oh, Joyful thing!
No wonder saints find voice to sing and sing! – eab, 12/10/2002
Written while associate pastor (under Phillip Dickinson) at Gospel Center, Phoenix, Arizona
George MacDonald – birth, Dec. 10, 1824
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In God’s Kingdom…a man’s salvation rarely comes without the prayers of another who labors unseen.
– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 19.
Never did his face light up when he spoke of the Son of God, of his death, or of his resurrection. Never did he make mention of the kingdom of heaven as if it were anything more venerable than the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 61.
For God is love, and love is that which is, and was, and shall be for evermore – boundless, unconditional, self-existent, creative!
– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 117.
The heart o’ both king and cobbler’s in the hand o’ the Lord…
– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 147.
Ignorant people go abut always asking why God permits evil. We know why! So that we might know – really know – what good is like, and therefore what God himself is like.
– George MacDonald, The Minister’s Restoration (Minneapolis: Bethany House Pub., 1988), 206.
George MacDonald was born 12/10/1824 in Scotland. He was a pastor but also a writer. His pen influenced the later pen of C S Lewis.
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