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Whenever I get excited about something that I may have learned or remembered I HAVE to share it with some close friends and so I text them. I know one appreciates them, do not know exactly about the others haha
I just thought I'd share a text I sent yesterday...

Text 1: the man answered, "now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." John 9:30-32 I'm just so amazed by the words in this whole chapter. Jesus healed a blind guy! like what?!? who does that? who has the power to do that?!? what religious text claims these things?!? like who has one on one contact with a guy who can get a blind man to see by spitting in the dirt and rubbing it in his face? lol it is so ridiculous! so simple and primitive no? lol I'm amazed.

Text 2: One of my favorite lines from a movie about Corrie Ten Boom and her sister. Her sister and her were reading the Bible to the women in their concentration camp cabin together and one lady was saying "how can you believe what you do when your God allows us to suffer like this?!?" and her sister responded with, "if only you knew his love."
Do you know his love? Do I know his love? I know I desire it immensely and when I actually take the time to seek after it and rely on it I am driven like crazy to love. haha I'm in love right now with Love.

Thought: "When people turn away from God, they don't turn to nothing, they turn to everything." -Begg

"We must give our Lord our love or that love will go somewhere else.
We are so created that we must love something or other."
-Spurgeon


Not only am I total quote geek, I'm also a sermon geek. Listening to some Truth for Life podcasts this week, pretty cool stuff to hear and to consider. Thought I'd share:

From the topic of 1 Kings 19:
"Isn't it a strange thing in how christian television everybody wants to go on the tv and tell about how they saw the glory of the Lord? You can fill up a half hour program telling about what you saw and the experience that you had.
Isn't that so very different from the Bible? When Peter on the boat saw the glory of Christ what did he do? He threw himself on the deck and said, "depart from me for I'm a sinful man O Lord!" When Moses saw the glory of the Lord in the desert he took his shoes off his feet at the command of God because he knew he was standing on holy ground. When Elijah discovers that God reveals Himself to him he pulls his cloak over his face. When Isaiah sees the glory of God manifested as His train fills the temple he cries out, "I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips!"
It seems to me if we would really see the glory of the Lord it wouldn't put us on christian television it would put us in the silence of our bedrooms in the quietness of our hearts"

Thought: "They that know God will be humbled: they that know themselves cannot be proud." -John Flavel

Another TFL sermon:

1 Peter 5:6-7: Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

"The presence of anxiety is directly related to the absence of humility."

"[referring to after you cast your anxiety on God] and then the discipline at every 60 seconds a minute of walking through your day and refusing to take back onto your shoulders what you just gave over in the quietness of your room."