Weekly Roundup: the beauty of Christ, God is for you, update from Cambodia, sinful anger
Forgetting the beauty of Christ, how to know if God is for you, a gospel update from Cambodia, and the dawn of realizing your sinful anger.
Resources
We Yawn Because We Forget: Uncovering the Wonder of Christ | Marshall Segal | Desiring God
I love what this article is trying to get at. I know that you see Jesus as right, but do you see Him as beautiful and good, the greatest love of your soul?
Of all the wonders in the world — the steepest mountains, the grandest canyons, the widest oceans — none compares with the Son sent from heaven. If we think we have seen the full extent of who he is, we are deceived. We cannot fathom just how breathtaking he is. Have we forgotten? When was the last time you were mesmerized by Jesus?
How Do I Know That God Is for Me? | Sinclair Ferguson | Ligonier Ministries
A treasured, timely reminder of what God has accomplished in redemption.
God has promised to work everything together for the good of His people. If God is for us, it follows that, ultimately, nothing can stand against us. That is logical. Otherwise, God would not be God. If something could rise up against God and overcome Him, that other thing would be God. God would then prove to be a false god—no God at all. But on the contrary Paul is saying that in the last analysis, nothing can be against us if God is for us.
But this raises the million-dollar question: “Is God for me?” Perhaps even more pointed is the personal question: “How do I know that God is for me?”
God’s Gospel at Work in Cambodia | Kien | Heart Cry Missionary Society
In 2018, I went on a missions trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It gave me great joy to hear of the progress of the gospel there from someone laboring in the field!
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Quote
From an absolutely stellar book on anger. If you haven’t read this book, you need to go and read it!
Imagine standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon from pre-dawn darkness until the full light of day. At first you peer down into inky darkness, but as the sky slowly brightens, impenetrable darkness gradually gives way to gray. You being to discern the shapes and contours of the abyss below. You see dimly what was right in front of you all along. That’s what it’s like to identify by name the specific lusts that characteristically produce your battles. Finally, as the sun breaks forth, the rocks begin to glow with every color of fire. The canyon blazes, and you see everything in vivid detail. That’s specific conviction of what is true: “My anger at you—not only my cutting and defensive words, but the dismissive attitude, the negative, damning spin I put on everything you did, the positive, justifying spin I put on my own performance, the evasions, the self-righteous and self-pitying emotions and thoughts, all these and more—expresses my diabolical pride against God and my restless demand for what I want.”
— David Powlison. Good and Angry, pg. 137.