“My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.” “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of…
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” I’ve been spending a fair amount of time lately, reading and learning about the process of research and the apparatus of scholastic knowledge, and I’ve come to wonder about the value of academic knowledge. One book I read said that gaining knowledge was the highest purpose of mankind. The religious nature of these words gave me pause. Is gaining knowledge…
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” – 1 John 5:14-15 There are many places in Scripture where it restates the idea: God hears us. God especially hears the righteous or those who call on Him in truth. The general thrust of this is that, if we…