Quotes

I'm just putting random quotes from The God You Can Know right now because... well they're really good!


"When we realize that God delights in nothing more than revealing Himself to His creatures, then we understand why knowing Him is our highest calling. In fact, we are allowed to brag about nothing elseexcept that we know God. "'Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast in his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,' declares the Lord" (Jeremiah 9:23-24. italics added)."

"Charles Spurgeon said these words in one of his sermons: Many men believe in the existence of a God; but they do not love that belief. They know there is a God; but they greatly wish there were none. Some would be very pleased, yeah, would set the bells a ringing, if you believed there were no God. Why, if there were no God, then you might live just as you liked; if there were no God, then you might run riot, and have no fear of future consequences. It would be to you the greatest joy that could be, if you heard that the eternal God had ceased to be. But the Christian never wishes any such a thing as that. The thought that there is a God is the sunshine of his existence."


Plus, somewhere around there, it said that God waits to show Himself to us until we are desperate for Him. Until we need Him so badly that we would do anything to get to know Him. I don't think that I am that desperate for Him yet, although the desire to know Him gets stronger every day. But I guess that that is a good thing. I think my problem is that I want Him to show Himself to me as if it is my right. But it is not my right at all. It is only by His grace that He would even love me, and I still am expecting more. I guess God wants me to really search for Him, because so many times in scripture it says "If you seek Me you will find Me" so my problem must be that I am not really searching for Him. And I'm not. Not really. But I will try to change that, or, I guess it is only God that can change my heart toward Him.

I just finished reading the Bible through for the second time (woooot!) and I was going to try and read it through in 90 days (a little bit more than 13 chapters a day) but than I decided to look up all the places where "love" is mentioned. I've only done a few verses, but I've noticed so far that whenever God asks us to love Him, it is always the word which means affection, and that whenever His love is mentioned, it is a different kind of love toward us. Is this because we can't love God the way He loves us? Well, I know we can't love Him back the way He loves us because it is impossible to even comprehend His love with the human mind, but is is because He knew that that He commanded us to love Him with the affection kind of love? Also, the way He loves us, from the Hebrew it means:

-"to cling, i.e. join, (fig.) to love, delight in; to deliver: -have a delight, (have a ) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love."

To me, that was really special. God desires me and He delights in me! In spite of everything, all my faults, weaknesses, and unlovableness, He still loves me! I think that's pretty awesome!!!