The question you must answer is how you view your children. Do you simply see human organisms who will stroll through the stages of life–playing sports, going to college, having a career and family then dying like everybody else? Or do you see ‘souls’ as Toser calls us in his quote?
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Sometimes when Easter rolls around, Mom dresses up, and she and Danny go to the church across the street. But not Dad—he outgrew church long ago. It isn’t long before Danny refuses to go to church too. After all, if Dad doesn’t, why should he?
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That doesn’t sound like any employer anyone has ever known. Truth is, it sounds crazy. Yet, this parallels how God has operated with the human race.
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Imagine if God had said to the Israelites (and also to us), “I will remain on my throne high in Heaven. To reach me, you must attain the perfect holiness that I am. I have established all the procedures you need to follow in order to accomplish this. Follow them perfectly and you can join me here. Good luck. Also, no collect calls please.”
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Three months later a pile of unfolded towels confronted me once again. When I finished, they looked like a stack of bloated burritos. Alas, I had forgotten the rules of towel-folding. Was April’s wrath soon to follow? If we adjusted Habakkuk 1:13 to reflect April’s predicament, it would go like this: “Your eyes are too pure to approve horrible towel-folding, and you cannot look on horrible towel-folding with favor.”
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God’s holiness potentially prevents the entirety of mankind from having a relationship with Him. A mere man cannot stand in front of an on-rushing locomotive and live.
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The manifestation of gnats in your ears and atop your balding head cause your thoughts to go elsewhere, leading to the ultimate question: Why gnats?
When Jesus tells us to come to Him, the foundational quality He’s offering is peace with Him. Without peace with God, there can be no other peace anywhere else in our lives. Absent peace with Him, we will never experience His brand of love, joy and goodness.
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The Voice from the box at Wendy’s freaks me out. I don’t know that voice. I don’t know what that voice might say. I certainly don’t trust that voice. But I know the voice of my God through His Word.
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If a person’s joy is God’s version of joy rather than his own, then how can it be destroyed? It cannot. If the Spirit grows His version of joy within us, will He ever remove it from us? He will not. If we possess God’s joy within us, will it be superior to human-produced joy? It will be.
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