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| "God is God" by Steven Curtis Chapman
And the pain falls like a curtain On the things I once called certain And I have to say the words I fear the most I just dont know
And the questions without answers Come and paralyze the dancer So I stand here on the stage afraid to move Afraid to fall, oh, but fall I must On this truth that my life has been formed from the dust
CHORUS: God is God and I am not I can only see a part of the picture Hes painting God is God and I am man So Ill never understand it all For only God is God
And the sky begins to thunder And Im filled with awe and wonder Til the only burning question that remains Is who am I
Can I form a single mountain Take the stars in hand and count them Can I even take a breath without God giving it to me He is first and last before all that has been Beyond all that will pass
CHORUS
Oh, how great are the riches of His wisdom and knowledge How unsearchable for to Him and through Him and from Him are all things
So let us worship before the throne Of the One who is worthy of worship alone
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| Found this somewhere...
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| I read this the other day, and just found myself praising God that He is more childlike than we are...
[Children] have abounding vitality, because they are
in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and
unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does
it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong
enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is
possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and
every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic
necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every
daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be
that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and
grown old, and our Father is younger than we. -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
(No, I'm not reading Orthodoxy. This was found in When I Don't Desire God by John Piper.)
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| I found this on desiringgod.org, and God really encouraged me by it. Just sharing it in case anyone else would benefit from it, too.
People don’t earn God’s approval or receive life and salvation because
of anything they’ve done. Rather, the only reason they receive life and
salvation is because of God’s kindness through Christ. There is no
other way.
Many Christians are tired of hearing this teaching over and over. They
think that they learned it all long ago. However, they barely
understand how important it really is. If it continues to be taught as
truth, the Christian church will remain united and pure – free from
decay. This truth alone makes and sustains Christianity. You might hear
an immature Christian brag about how well he knows that we receive
God’s approval through God’s kindness and not because of anything we do
to earn it. But if he goes on to say that this is easy to put into
practice, then have no doubt he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,
and he probably never will. We can never learn this truth completely or
brag that we understand it fully. Learning this truth is an art. We
will always remain students of it, and it will always be our teacher.
The people who truly understand that they receive God’s approval by
faith and put this into practice don’t brag that they have fully
mastered it. Rather, they think of it as a pleasant taste or aroma that
they are always pursuing. These people are astonished that they can’t
comprehend it as fully as they would like. They hunger and thirst for
it. They yearn for it more and more. They never get tired of hearing
about this truth.
-Martin Luther,
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