Currently Reading Obsessed By Ted Dekker see related

This speaks for itself, I know I need a reminder of this:

My Utmost for His Highest
October 6

The Bent Of Regeneration

"When it pleased God . . to reveal His Son in me."

If Jesus Christ is to regenerate me, what is the problem He is up against? I have a heredity I had no say in; I am not holy, nor likely to be; and if all Jesus Christ can do is to tell me I must he holy, His teaching plants despair. But if Jesus Christ is a Regenerator, One Who can put into me His own heredity of holiness, then I begin to see what He is driving at when He says that I have to be holy. Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the hereditary disposition that was in Himself, and all the standards He gives are based on that disposition: His teaching is for the life He puts in. The moral transaction on my part is agreement with God's verdict on sin in the Cross of Jesus Christ.

The New Testament teaching about regeneration is that when a man is struck by a sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God, "until Christ be formed in you." The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life. When I reach the frontier of need and know my limitations, Jesus says - "Blessed are you." But I have to get there. God cannot put into me, a responsible moral being, the disposition that was in Jesus Christ unless I am conscious I need it.

Just as the disposition of sin entered into the human race by one man, so the Holy Spirit entered the human race by another Man; and Redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin and through Jesus Christ can receive an unsullied heredity, viz., the Holy Spirit.

Currently Listening Room Noises By Eisley My Lovely see related

Thoughts for today:

on Proverbs 21 (NLT)

¹³My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. ¹⁴In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.

Honey = good. mmm... .... .... especially good in (black) tea.

Most of today's proverb deals with the aspect of wisdom.  What excatly does God mean?  He's not just talking about knowledge - he doesn't care if you know what the square root of 1,432,337 is.  Look at Job 28:28 "The fear of the Lord - that is wisdom."

God has given us all wonderful minds!  We are all gifted in different areas (e.g. I pick up science & math stuff easily, but I have a heck of a time memorizing spanish vocab).  But whether your Einstien or the guy from Rainman, you can have wisdom.  God want's your heart!  Even the most inteligent person becomes a fool when he closes his mind and heart to God.

I've really noticed that this week in my Biology 174 class at Columbus State.  My professor is obsessed with bugs (he's an entymologist), and he's incredibly amazed at the complexity of life and this universe - incredibly smart.  Think about it - remember your freshman bio class how complex everything was at the cellular level?  Then in your sophomore year you learned how complex it is 1,000,000 time smaller in Chemistry?  Yet he adamantly believes that we evolved from nothing.  Aldous Huxley (the guy who wrote Brave New World which I had to read Sophomore year) explains his reasons for discounting God:

"I want this world not to have meaning because it frees me to my own erotic and political desires."

Thoes who reject the gospel are doing it out of their own desire to chase after their pursuits.  They are making themselves God.  How foolish and sad!

Keep this in mind when dealing with evolution in your schools - don't argue the science; neither evolution, nor intelligent design, nor creationism can be completely proved.  It is their souls you must be concerned about.

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through me," Jesus said.  How amazing that he has sought us out and showed us the way!  Now we are instructed to use all our might to bring others to Him, not to creationism.

Well, that about ends my ramblings.  After 3 cups of coffee, I'm sufficiently awake.  If you've got time, check out the sweet readings for today.

More Sweet Readings for Today:

My Utmost for His Highest (September 24)

Psalm 24

Psalm 54

Psalm 84

Psalm 114

Psalm 144

Mark 1 & 2

Currently Reading My Utmost for His Highest/Hard Bonded Leather (The/Christian Library) By Oswald Chambers see related

Well, I've decided to try and make a xanga or whatever - mostly because hardly know any of you guys at Grace Point and this fall quarter is going to be insane!!!  So, I figured I'd let you get a glimpse into my soul and just write whatever comes to mind out of my devotions on here.  I'll try to keep 'em short & meaty (or broccoli flavored for you vegitarians), and hopefully enjoyable.  Feel free to post on here

~Adam