I collect quotes. Until I have the time and patience to figure out how to get a link or something like that to keep them all, I will publish them here. This is my first -of hopefully many:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Friday, November 25, 2005
Psalm 143
Psalm 143 has become a beacon of hope and light in dark times. I do not consider myself a stranger to dark times these days. I do however look on those times as glorious and God purposed.
Psalm 143 is a passage in the Bible that I can personally relate to. I cannot count how many times I have wept over those words begging for life to spring up and God to show up. I came back to those words over and over again as if they were oxygen. It seemed that someone could finally understand what I was giong through. Or maybe it was the other way around. Maybe I could finally I could understand what David, the author, was going through.
I do not consider this time of my life to be shrowded in darkness, but those times are not far from my memory. I know that I am stepping out into a new phase that is much, much different than anything I've known before and it is because of the darkness that I am prepared for this new phase.
But I keep coming back to the familiarity of Psalm 143 that spoke so much Truth into my life for many months.
I read Psalm 143 to a freind the other week and wept with her as I read it. It's amazing how the Word is so powerful that it continues to speak volumes no matter how familiar it becomes. It's like white hot fire that cuts into the depths of us and speaks Truth from eternity.
All of the Word of God is like that. It really is living and active. It really is sharper than a double edged sword. It really does cut to divide bone and marrow, soul and spirit. (Paul, one of the writers of the New Testament in the Bible, said that).
Psalm 143 is a passage in the Bible that I can personally relate to. I cannot count how many times I have wept over those words begging for life to spring up and God to show up. I came back to those words over and over again as if they were oxygen. It seemed that someone could finally understand what I was giong through. Or maybe it was the other way around. Maybe I could finally I could understand what David, the author, was going through.
I do not consider this time of my life to be shrowded in darkness, but those times are not far from my memory. I know that I am stepping out into a new phase that is much, much different than anything I've known before and it is because of the darkness that I am prepared for this new phase.
But I keep coming back to the familiarity of Psalm 143 that spoke so much Truth into my life for many months.
I read Psalm 143 to a freind the other week and wept with her as I read it. It's amazing how the Word is so powerful that it continues to speak volumes no matter how familiar it becomes. It's like white hot fire that cuts into the depths of us and speaks Truth from eternity.
All of the Word of God is like that. It really is living and active. It really is sharper than a double edged sword. It really does cut to divide bone and marrow, soul and spirit. (Paul, one of the writers of the New Testament in the Bible, said that).
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