To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
- C.S. Lewis
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
You Are a Tourist
And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born
Then it's time to go
And define your destination
There's so many different places to call home
Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written
It's plain to see
That sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions
Would you agree?
If so please show me
This fire grows higher
When there's a burning in your heart
_Chris Walla, DCFC
Then it's time to go
And define your destination
There's so many different places to call home
Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written
It's plain to see
That sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions
Would you agree?
If so please show me
This fire grows higher
When there's a burning in your heart
_Chris Walla, DCFC
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Heart
"Life is a journey of the heart that requires the mind—not the other way around. The church sometimes gets this backward and makes knowing the right things the center of life. It's not;
the heart is the center of life. Desire is always where the action is.
The key is to bring the TRUTH into our hearts to guard and guide our desire."
_Eldredge, The Journey of Desire
I was reminded and amazed when I reread what God says in Ezekiel 36:
25"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God..."
God is giving them a new heart and moving them
to follow his decrees by
a softened heart AND implanted truth. WOW.
God is seeking worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth.
"The informed mind through the revealed Word of God and the Spirit's presence in our lives
inflames the heart,
and the heart creates the energy for the growing mind."
_Matt Chandler, Gospel Centered Worship, Village Identity Part 4
(current favorite sermon)
God is seeking worshipers with informed minds and inflamed hearts.
What is your heart set on? Your mind may be set on doing God's will but your heart may be desiring and longing for completely different things. I was convicted of this recently.
The heart is kind of a big deal. It truly guides ones life more than one realizes.
For example, one can believe that jealousy is wrong intellectually and tell oneself not to be jealous, but the moment ones coworker is granted a promotion, which leads?--ones mind (that believes jealousy is wrong and tells itself not to be jealous) or ones heart?
Your heart for sure. All things harbored in the heart are revealed .
It is a man's heart that reflects the man, not his mind.
Have the right thing in your mind intellectually,
and in your heart affectionately. _Chambers
Let us
"Love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind." _Matthew 22:37
the heart is the center of life. Desire is always where the action is.
The key is to bring the TRUTH into our hearts to guard and guide our desire."
_Eldredge, The Journey of Desire
I was reminded and amazed when I reread what God says in Ezekiel 36:
25"I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God..."
God is giving them a new heart and moving them
to follow his decrees by
a softened heart AND implanted truth. WOW.
God is seeking worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth.
"The informed mind through the revealed Word of God and the Spirit's presence in our lives
inflames the heart,
and the heart creates the energy for the growing mind."
_Matt Chandler, Gospel Centered Worship, Village Identity Part 4
(current favorite sermon)
God is seeking worshipers with informed minds and inflamed hearts.
What is your heart set on? Your mind may be set on doing God's will but your heart may be desiring and longing for completely different things. I was convicted of this recently.
The heart is kind of a big deal. It truly guides ones life more than one realizes.
For example, one can believe that jealousy is wrong intellectually and tell oneself not to be jealous, but the moment ones coworker is granted a promotion, which leads?--ones mind (that believes jealousy is wrong and tells itself not to be jealous) or ones heart?
Your heart for sure. All things harbored in the heart are revealed .
It is a man's heart that reflects the man, not his mind.
Have the right thing in your mind intellectually,
and in your heart affectionately. _Chambers
Let us
"Love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind." _Matthew 22:37
Monday, September 05, 2011
There Will Come a Time
And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.
Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.
And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
Mumford & Sons, After the Storm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3RP1VbUaaA
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.
Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.
And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.
And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.
Mumford & Sons, After the Storm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3RP1VbUaaA
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