Flesh Hiccups
The flesh just won't go away; it feels so close when at bay. With a bubble and pop my flesh just hiccups and my heart guiltily throbs away.
The flesh just won't go away; it feels so close when at bay. With a bubble and pop my flesh just hiccups and my heart guiltily throbs away.
Revelation is God's condescension to have face-to-face friendship with His image bearers. It's an act of divine fellowship, and as the creature readily receives it it's an act of worship. But now sin disturbed this. So God's revelatory acts have a dual purpose: on the one hand, wrath, on the other, rescue, epitomized in two
Let's get down to the heart of the issue.
"At least look good before you die," says the world to its kinsmen. "We have here no lasting kingdom."
Has the hour passed by unyielding, when you could have closed with Christ?
Who were the Puritans? They were heavenly minded, and thus, earthly good.
When it comes to the last letter of Scripture all would agree that it has these features:
O LORD, gracious Master, set upon the everlasting salvation, felicity, blessedness, and joy of the soul of my descendants.
O God You are a consuming fire, and we lying in our sins, in unchanged nature are stubble. Would it please You more to kill this sinner or save? Do You not have no pleasure in the death of the wicked?
God's revelation, a closed bud- until the Son come. Now it is an open rose bud. See the full blossom!