Are we so arrogant in our perceived Christian security and so overfed with our American comforts and hobbies and so unconcerned with being filled with God’s Word to be in a position to be of any good to provide truth–living water–Christ Himself–to the poor and blind and captive all around us? Look very carefully.
Will we refuse to come to Christ to have life? #loversofdeath
It is a dreary holiness that is merely resisting sin. The joy of holiness is found in having heard a sweeter song… This is the true meaning of grace. Grace does not demonize our desires nor destroy them nor lead us to deny them. Grace is the work of the Holy Spirit in the transforming our desires so that knowing Jesus becomes sweeter than illicit sex, sweeter than money and what it can buy, sweeter than every fruitless joy. Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we’re ruined for anything else!
~ Sam Storms
When we consider God, then, who, according to the Biblical text, injected perfect information into the universe, we can be amazed:
1 ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 οὖτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.
He was with God in the beginning.3 πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν
Through him all things were made; without him, nothing was made that has been made.4 ἐν αὐτῶ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων·
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.5 καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
Did you catch that? This parallel of Genesis asserts that Jesus the Christ is the Word who is somehow concurrently with–and in being–God. A perfect word is perfect information set forth. It is flawless in nature, containing in itself patterns and rhythms which can be observed, studied, and known if revealed. Therefore, it is our duty and our pleasure to learn this Word, the information contained therein, and put it to use in our lives that we might live to the fullest intended for us.
The quest for knowledge is a great one, but it is largely misunderstood and corrupted…