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God created us to be whole people. We are meant to respond as whole people to the whole of God. Every aspect of our being — our minds, our emotions, our physical abilities, our digestion, our tears — has been created by God to play a role in our communion with him and our service to him.
Vern S. Poythress, Symphonic Theology
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When Satan tempts me to despair,
And tells me of the guilt within,
Upward I look, and see Him there
Who made an end of all my sin.

Because a sinless Savior died,
My sinful soul is counted free;
For God, the Just, is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me.

Shane & Shane, Before the Throne


Precious words for my soul tonight.. 

theworldwelivein: Low Tide | Malibu Pier, California© ™ Pacheco

theworldwelivein:

Low Tide | Malibu Pier, California
© ™ Pacheco

(Reblogged from theworldwelivein)

O Love…

… learning to surrender things that never belonged to me to begin with.
… learning to entrust situations that I can’t control into God’s hands.
… learning to patiently and quietly wait on Him and His timing.
… learning to find joy where true joy is to be found.

I feel my circumstances pressing me into brokenness and despair. But in all of my frailty and helplessness and in all of my fear, by the grace of God, I want to fight for joy, for peace, for abundant life this week. I want to worship Him.  




O Love, that wilt not let me go; I rest my weary soul in Thee. 

George Matheson
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Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise
Thou mine inheritance, now and always
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.
Be Thou My Vision
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Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Elisabeth Elliot

(Source: spiritualinspiration)

(Reblogged from spiritualinspiration)
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Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Thou art my loveliness, my life, my light, Beauty alone to me.

George Herbert (quoted in Counterfeit Gods, Tim Keller)

Only Christ is my life… only Him. It has to be Him.

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Lord, I have said the eternal Yes. Let me never, having put my hand to the plough, look back. Make straight the way of the Cross before me. Give me love, that there may be no room for a wayward thought or step.
Elisabeth Elliot