God’s love is meteoric,
his loyalty astronomic,
His purpose titanic,
his verdicts oceanic.
Yet in his largeness
nothing gets lost;
Not a man, not a mouse,
slips through the cracks. (Psalm 36:5-6 MSG) 1/20/15
his loyalty astronomic,
His purpose titanic,
his verdicts oceanic.
Yet in his largeness
nothing gets lost;
Not a man, not a mouse,
slips through the cracks. (Psalm 36:5-6 MSG) 1/20/15
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one
and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing
in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the
trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the
world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who
trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been
under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s
failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
“This is the crisis we’re
in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the
darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in
pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial
and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful
exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light
so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.” (John 3:16-21 MSG)
Let your love, God, shape my life
with salvation, exactly as you promised;
Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery
because I trusted your Word.
Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
your commandments are what I depend on.
Oh, I’ll guard with my life what you’ve revealed to me,
guard it now, guard it ever;
And I’ll stride freely through wide open spaces
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I’ll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed. (Psalm 119: 41-47 MSG)
with salvation, exactly as you promised;
Then I’ll be able to stand up to mockery
because I trusted your Word.
Don’t ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
your commandments are what I depend on.
Oh, I’ll guard with my life what you’ve revealed to me,
guard it now, guard it ever;
And I’ll stride freely through wide open spaces
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I’ll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed. (Psalm 119: 41-47 MSG)
“That’s why my cup is running over. This is the assigned
moment for him to move into the center, while I slip off to the sidelines.
“The One who
comes from above is head and shoulders over other messengers from God. The
earthborn is earthbound and speaks earth language; the heavenborn is in a
league of his own. He sets out the evidence of what he saw and heard in heaven.
No one wants to deal with these facts. But anyone who examines this evidence
will come to stake his life on this: that God himself is the truth.
“The One that God sent speaks God’s words. And don’t
think he rations out the Spirit in bits and pieces. The Father loves the Son
extravagantly. He turned everything over to him so he could give it away—a
lavish distribution of gifts. That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son
gets in on everything, life complete and forever! And that is also why the
person who avoids and distrusts the Son is in the dark and doesn’t see life.
All he experiences of God is darkness, and an angry darkness at that.” (John
3:29-30 MSG)
I run to you, God; I run for dear life.
Don’t let me down!
Take me seriously this time!
Get down on my level and listen,
and please—no procrastination!
Your granite cave a hiding place,
your high cliff aerie a place of safety.(Psalm 31:1-2 MSG)
Don’t let me down!
Take me seriously this time!
Get down on my level and listen,
and please—no procrastination!
Your granite cave a hiding place,
your high cliff aerie a place of safety.(Psalm 31:1-2 MSG)
“It’s who you are and the way you live that count
before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth.
That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and
honestly themselves before
him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him
must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in
adoration.” (John 4:23-24 MSG)
God gave his best, he asks for no less from me.
When I bury myself in darkness, I am like the chaos before creation. When I run
to the God-light, I am not creating light. That is already done. As I grow
closer and closer to His love and truth, I become more and more reflective of
His light. As I move nearer and nearer, more and more of me disappears, greater
and greater His light shines, so they too run to the God-light.
Peterson,
Eugene H. The Message (MSG). Carol Stream, IL: NavPress, 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002.
