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When we can’t understand the Lord’s choices,

we have to trust His character.

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Our greatest struggle when the devil attacks our thoughts is due to us not talking to God. When you have a negative view of you and you lay that on the Father it gives you a reason to stay far rather than to draw close. God wants relationship with us. If we’re not talking to Him then we’re laying down our sword of the Spirit.

That’s why I don’t get why the church fights against seeing themselves as valuable and special to the Father because that’s what gives us confidence and boldness to approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace in time of need.

If God says He loves you, don’t try to figure out why it’s probably not true. It’s true because He sent His Son.

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The obsession with proving there were warrior women in history is kinda weird, honestly. Like it’s cool where it happens and their life stories tend to be really interesting, but acting like women were just worthless if none of them fought in war is high key weird to me, and it is equally weird when fiction acts this way too.

Like there is more to life than death and violence. The women artists, craftsmen, business owners, nuns, wives/mothers they’re all really interesting too. And they were worth having around. Just because they didn’t go fight in battle doesn’t make them worth any less or anything…

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“It is possible for men to have a great name for piety, and yet to be workers of iniquity; and those that are so will receive the greater damnation. Secret haunts of sin, kept under the cloak of a visible profession, will be the ruin of the hypocrites. Living in known sin nullifies men's pretensions, be they ever so specious.”

— Matthew Henry on Matthew 7

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Your sigh is able to move the heart of Jehovah; your whisper can incline his ear unto you; your prayer can stay his hand; your faith can move his arm. Do not think that God sits on high paying no attention to you. Remember that however poor and needy you are, the Lord thinks about you. “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9. Oh, then, repeat the truth that never tires: No God is like the God my soul desires. He, at whose voice heaven trembles, even he, great as he is, knows how to stoop to me. - Charles Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, morning of September 28 devotional

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“Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.”

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Andrew Murray

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Two cats on a window sill, 2020 - photographer unknown

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Beware of no man more than yourself. We carry our worst enemies within us.

Spurgeon

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Even in conservative circles, the traditional saying, “God hates the sin but loves the sinner” has been so often repeated that such passages as Psalm 5:5, “You hate all who do iniquity,” and Psalm 11:5, “And the one who loves violence His soul hates,” have been practically decanonized. For many, it is an unfortunate miscalculation of the Holy Spirit that right on the heels of such a passage as John 3:16, we read the words, “The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.” (John 3:36). 

James White

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"It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God."

- C.S. Lewis

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“God has a plan for you and His timetable is perfect… The question is, whether or not you’re willing to show up to God’s house and put your plans at His feet and say, “Whatever You want, Lord.””

— Mark Hart, The Bible Geek (via by-grace-of-god)