Just One Thing...

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Paul Tripp's blog on Psalm 27: One Thing has caused me to rethink the "just one thing" mentality which I perceive to so often paralyze American Christian thinking limiting our focus of the manifold wonders of Christ. This is the "one thing" David prays to God for! Definitely worthy or heavy meditation...

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire (meditate) in his temple. (Psalm 27:4)

The Death of Pride

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

I'm finally posting again and reading a new book, Holiness by Grace authored by Bryan Chapell. Some of us continually fall into the appeasement of God trap and its root is pride. Bryan comments:

Spiritual pride dies when we realize that all of our comparisons with others based on relative levels of apparent goodness count for nothing in terms of gaining us standing with God. What we may want God to account to our credit has no currency with him, because the economy of good works is dead. Being better than the next guy, being a more astute observer of his sin, or being more insightful about scriptural truth does nothing to earn me status with God. [p43]

Although this makes perfect sense it so easily entangles our lives.