Rom 12.14
“Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.”
We’re admonished to “Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep” (Rom 12.15). Dear Believer – we need holy discernment at times to know which to do. If rebellious daughter marries an equally strong-headed man – they’d have you rejoice in their wedding. One or both sets of parents are mourning an out-of-God’s-will-union – they’d like you weep with them. We can’t do both & need wisdom.
– eab 3/19/18
“Why are men ‘lovers of the world more than lovers of God’
Is it not because they really believe that the world can make them happier than God?”
– John Fletcher, Works vol I
Hopelessness must be awful. Anything worse? Yes – false hope. It is much worse. The chap who’s hopeless may recognize & openly welcome truth when/if it shows up in his life. The one with false hope feels secure in a lie. Therefore he will pass truth by, & die in delusion.
– eab, 3/18/18
I Don’t Need
I don’t need to live tomorrow
It has yet to fully arrive.
I don’t need to live yesterday
It’s confined to history’s tall “hive.”
It’s mine to live, by grace, today.
Live, and be lovingly alive.
– eab, 3/19/11
Rom 12.19
“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves…for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
A woman may be a sister, a wife, aunt, grandmother, etc. but whether she is any or all of these, she is a daughter. She’s a daughter, a granddaughter, a great granddaughter back though centuries of time. A woman can be a woman without being many “positions” in the family but she’s first & always a daughter. I was blessed by God to become the dad of two fine daughters.
– eab, 3/11/18
“…A husband should give of himself that his wife might be a saint.”
– Andrew W Blackwood
Separate-Holy 