Yea I really like this Chapter (6). The whole Child concept is something that I hear a lot but never really understood until reading through this. My favorite part of the chapter was the end:
Here we are to begin, in the patient love of our Father. Think how He knows us apart and by ourselves, in all our peculiarities, and in all our weaknesses and difficulties. The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure. YOUR FATHER. Think how great store His love sets by the poor beginnings of the little ones, clumsy and unmeaning as they may be to others. All this lies in this blessed relationship and infinitely more. Do not fear to take it all as your own.
It's kind of cool concept that we are not "judged" by our built up sins but by our built up repentance for those sins.
This last quote had me thinking but to be honest I am having trouble understanding it.
From Thoughts on Holiness, by Mark Guy Pearse. What is so beautifully said of the knowledge of God’s Fatherliness as the starting-point of holiness is no less true of prayer.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
We have a Fathers Love
Taylors post:
reading through the 6th chapter of the book, a couple things really stuck out to me.
The first was the idea of being like a child. You know in the Word it talks about entering the kingdom like a child, but I also like where he took this concept.
"And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living." I love this line. Not only because it rhymes, but it makes it sound like life is so simplified in the fact that living like a child is all that it takes...
In the bottom of chapter 6, after the prayer in the NOTES section, he states these sentences that somewhat relate to this:
"Here is the starting-point of holiness, in the love and patience and pity of our heavenly Father. We have not to learn to be holy as a hard lesson at school, that we may make God think well of us; we are to learn it at home with the Father to help us. God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us. He loves all His children, the clumsiest, the dullest, the worst of His children. His love lies at the back of everything, and we must get upon that as the solid foundation of our religious life, not growing up into that, but growing up out if it. We must begin there or our beginning will come to nothing."
- I love the "growing up out of it" part
What do you guys think about this paragraph?
reading through the 6th chapter of the book, a couple things really stuck out to me.
The first was the idea of being like a child. You know in the Word it talks about entering the kingdom like a child, but I also like where he took this concept.
"And he will find that Fatherlike giving is the Divine response to childlike living." I love this line. Not only because it rhymes, but it makes it sound like life is so simplified in the fact that living like a child is all that it takes...
In the bottom of chapter 6, after the prayer in the NOTES section, he states these sentences that somewhat relate to this:
"Here is the starting-point of holiness, in the love and patience and pity of our heavenly Father. We have not to learn to be holy as a hard lesson at school, that we may make God think well of us; we are to learn it at home with the Father to help us. God loves you not because you are clever not because you are good, but because He is your Father. The Cross of Christ does not make God love us; it is the outcome and measure of His love to us. He loves all His children, the clumsiest, the dullest, the worst of His children. His love lies at the back of everything, and we must get upon that as the solid foundation of our religious life, not growing up into that, but growing up out if it. We must begin there or our beginning will come to nothing."
- I love the "growing up out of it" part
What do you guys think about this paragraph?
Friday, March 4, 2011
numero uno
Ok fellas! ok ok ok! im pumped about reading this together...I really am puttin all my strength into trying really hard to stayin on top of this reading cause its awesome...soo reading one...i know we're doing five a wk but we havent talked about ch 1 yet soo lets dig in...a quote of the day...actually two for today...
"Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation."
"Let but the deep undertone of all our prayer be the teachableness that comes from a sense of ignorance, and from faith in Him as a perfect teacher, and we may be sure we shall be taught, we shall learn to pray in power. Yes, we may depend upon it, He teaches to pray."
Isnt it so cool that prayer is so powerful...that when I was 5 yrs old and my mom came and "said my prayers" with me at night before I went to bed...God was listening and pleased...and at the same time...Billy Graham was doing the exact same thing? But you know this is talking about how prayer is more powerful than we give it credit...how awesome was it when he said "Jesus didnt teach the disciples to preach....He taught them to pray" wow...i just sat back and thought...Jesus doesnt teach me to have a "business as missions" mindset like I want first...He teaches me to pray and spend time in our Fathers presence first...and then from there I am learning my calling and how to live from my core!
I love this second quote because of how it sorta punches me in the gut...I am in utter need of continually understanding my lack of a "rank" in God's family. I am His child just as much as anyone else and I have to approach Him in that "teachableness that comes from a sense of ignorance"....wow I have so much that I cant wait to learn about prayer...I love you guys...tell us what you think about this first chapter and what the Lord is showing you about prayer!
"Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation."
"Let but the deep undertone of all our prayer be the teachableness that comes from a sense of ignorance, and from faith in Him as a perfect teacher, and we may be sure we shall be taught, we shall learn to pray in power. Yes, we may depend upon it, He teaches to pray."
Isnt it so cool that prayer is so powerful...that when I was 5 yrs old and my mom came and "said my prayers" with me at night before I went to bed...God was listening and pleased...and at the same time...Billy Graham was doing the exact same thing? But you know this is talking about how prayer is more powerful than we give it credit...how awesome was it when he said "Jesus didnt teach the disciples to preach....He taught them to pray" wow...i just sat back and thought...Jesus doesnt teach me to have a "business as missions" mindset like I want first...He teaches me to pray and spend time in our Fathers presence first...and then from there I am learning my calling and how to live from my core!
I love this second quote because of how it sorta punches me in the gut...I am in utter need of continually understanding my lack of a "rank" in God's family. I am His child just as much as anyone else and I have to approach Him in that "teachableness that comes from a sense of ignorance"....wow I have so much that I cant wait to learn about prayer...I love you guys...tell us what you think about this first chapter and what the Lord is showing you about prayer!
Friday, February 18, 2011
And so it begins...
Hey Fellas! So ok...here we go! just "follow" this blog and then we can just shoot different ideas around and talk about what we're reading...and again...sorry I took so long gettin this goin...Im pretty pumped about this...it should be cool...ok well...Im gonna go read...Ill post somethin about Day one later...love you guys...
JErry
JErry
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