God is Angrier

“Sexual assault creates anger at what has been done to victims.  While anger can be a natural and healthy response to the unquestionable evil of sexual assault, most victims express it poorly or feel they have to suppress it.  They have probably been discouraged from expressing their anger, but suppressed anger holds them hostage and leaves them vindictive, addicted, embittered, and unbelieving.
We want to tell victims that God is angrier over the sin committed against you than you are.  He is angry because what happened to you was evil and it harmed you.  Godly anger is participating in God’s anger against injustice and sin, crying out to him to do what he promised: destroy evil and demolish everything that harms others and defames God’s name.
Anger expressed to God is the cry of the weak one who trusts the strong One, the hurting person who trusts the One who will make it all better.  Because vengeance is God’s, you can be free from the exhaustive cycle of vindictive anger.”

Interview with Justin and Lindsey Holcomb at the Mockingbird blog.

God is angrier is a post from: Ray Ortlund

Think it through

Think it through

Chasing Eden - All I'm Asking

This is the hundredth time,
I've come here,
This is not the last time,
I'll say this,
When You leave me in the dark,
I'll trust that You know the way,
When You take it all away,
I'll look at all thats left.

I've been tricked and I've been abused,
I'll get the blame and I'll feel the shame,
So all I'm asking is,
when You leave me in the dark,
I'll trust that You know the way,
And when You take it all away,
I'll look at all thats left.
Even when You kill me.
Even when You kill me.
Even when You kill me.
Even when You kill me.
Even when You kill me.

When You leave me in the dark,
I'll trust that You know the way,
When You take it all away,
I'll look at all thats left.

Among the Saints

“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint!  I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.”

Martin Luther, in Luther’s Works (St. Louis, 1957), XXII:55.

Among the saints is a post from: Ray Ortlund

Matt Chandler on Suffering

"I will wait for you" by Official P4CM Poet JANETTE...IKZ