scribble during a sermon

God's glory is inextricably tied

to His inherent worthiness and 

His righteousness, Justification

is wrapped up in God's glory

because in our salvation God

credits to us (who have no glory of our own)

a righteousness we never had,

the righteousness of Christ

and the righteousness of

Christ is a glorious thing,

reflecting the Father's glory,

so where there was nothing

worthy, whole, or beautiful,

Christ sets up His throne 

and supplies that all that lacked

and exhibits the glory

by showing His righteousness

through a plan that

 fulfills justice and mercy

and love and wrath

our righteousness is not

our own

but our salvation becomes

a showcase of the glorious

righteousness of

God.

infinite.

windfall of grace

face to face with the cold

i stand on the edge

still awaiting the storm

all the breakers are rolling

and crashing around

i'm on the edge

of the last solid ground

about to fall 

but holding on

spread my arms against the wind

and sing my love to all the fray

and know this infinite place.

the love of [God]

One who is loved by a beautiful other may look at the other person and feel unworthy of their love, insecure and unsettled within by knowing who they truly are and seeing themself with eyes that compare with others and expose every flaw, no matter how small. This person may think, "How could someone so high above me love something like me? They surely are only pretending to love me for a time, soon enough they will grow tired of me, realize that I can never be worthy of them and pass over me for a creature of beauty far beyond my compare."

this is humanity

So we are with God. We see His infinite beauty and are rightly humbled in ourselves. We know who we truly are and can see it with an eye that critiques and searches to the recesses of ourselves. We gauge our wickedness and unworthiness rightly, [but God] who has seen us far before we were a thought, or our parents existed, or the worlds were formed, although He sees us with an eye far more astute than ours, knowing all our sins, and He knew we were ugly and fallen and broken and dead, but because of His son, our perfect great lamb, we are to Him,

   Righteous. Clean. Lovely. 

   Sinless. Whole. Restored.

       and Beautiful.

      [He sees Christ]

And that is all the fitness He requires.

Just to see our need of Him.

And we are loved with

everlasting 

love unchanging,

never ending, never failing.

Who we are in Christ

is all we really ARE

 

lyrics ins arial

Picture from Flickr, Lyrics by Owl City, Made by me. :)

living

where was i when
you took my soul
and ripped the shreds
to make a whole?

the skin is cracking
dragon scales
the old is gone
the new has come.

going

i feel like
like we spend so much time just
getting ready for
ready for living and life
but is all that living simply
simply existing?

if every moment
of every day
is not lived with the thought
that we are only alive
because of His love
and we only are here
to further the kingdom
and push on to glory
the cause of the master
the love of the king

we aren't dead yet
so we must live
the life that's left
with full abandon
toward The Love.

:(

my life is full of disappointments.
peter pan never showed up at my window,
i still haven't gotten my hogwarts acceptance letter,
and no matter how many houses i live in,
none of the cupboards lead to narnia.