The Mystery of the Living God - 8/24/21
Hey family, I'm sure you already know this, but we live in a world with people who like to know things. They like to know the details of what, when, how, why, and ultimately whether or not the benefits will outweigh the costs of doing something. Fortunately, when it comes to God, despite not knowing the costs will always pail in comparison to benefits you will receive in the end, but because we don't have specific timelines and spreadsheets to predict when and what people will actually receive in eternity they harden their hearts and turn away.
Today's Prayer
"Dear Heavenly Father, You know your creation better than creation knows itself. For You said that no eye has seen, no ear has heard or mind conceived what you have in store for those who love You. Lord, You are so good to us and You keep getting better. Help us to express the joy, honor, and praise that You deserve for what has been done and what is to come out of Your might works. In Jesus Christ's beautiful name I pray, Amen."
Inconceivable Treasure
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
"Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ."
Quote of the Day
"And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Have a blessed day! 🙂
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