After beginning the book "Provocations" online (for free!) - I had to go ahead and purchase it. I just can't read a book without being able to highlight, scribble and bookmark pages. I'm now on chapter 20 of 98. Pretty deep reading so thank God the chapters are short. Here's a little of what provoked my heart this morning.
"God wants us to understand that material blessings are a concession to our weakness and very likely something he will withdraw at some later date to help us make true progress, not in some finite endeavor but in passing the examination."
"Truth is not a sum of statements, not a definition, not a system of concepts, but a life........
...when the requirement is to be in the truth, to merely 'know' the truth is insufficient - it is an untruth....
...what a monstrous mistake it is to impart or represent Christianity by lecturing. The truth is lived before it is understood."
"If someone lives in the midst of Christianity and enters, with knowledge of the true idea of God, the house of God, the house of the true God, and prays, but prays in untruth, and if someone lives in an idolatrous land but prays with all the passion of infinity, although his eyes are resting upon the image of an idol - where then, is there more truth? The one prays in truth to God although he is worshipping an idol; the other prays in untruth to the true God and is therefore in truth worshipping an idol."
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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about me
- javamamma
- I'm passionately in love with Jesus. He overwhelms me. I'm outrageously in love with my husband of 11 years. He stole my heart. I'm giddily in love with my kids. They make me laugh.
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ok... that spun my head a little... and YET... I like it!! :)
I like his talking about truth... I think its fair to say that many of us and our church traditions talk ABOUT truth, like we know all about it... and yet do we live the truth, and are we IN it??
If the TRUTH is Jesus... do we walk in it? That IS what its all about, ins't it? Of course, I don't know if I missed the point either, since there is a balloon being thrown in and around the keyboard as I write, and much other noise, conversation, etc.
Mery Christmas javamama.
wow...very provoking. That last bit about idolatry has left me with a lot to chew on.
Just stopping by to say hello. I haven't been by in a long time.
Wishing/Praying for a Merry CHRISTMAS for your family!!
My head hurts just trying to figure out that last paragraph. Sounds like you and my hubby could have great DEEP conversations.
I'm going to take an Advil now, and then re-read that post.
Yeah, the online version just isn't getting read hear. I have this guilt about my children seeing me glued to the laptop-reading a good book or not. They have no clue. So until it gets purchased, Sorry Mr. Kieregaard =(
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