Wisps of dust and churns of wind
echos of sound and prattle of speech
imprinted with Your fingerprint.
Feeble spirit and coward heart
joyless touch of loveless breaths
gripped within Your hand of completeness.
Vessel that resounds emptiness
and drinks in the fruit of voidness
used by Your hand to acquire Your glory.
Blessed be the name of the Lord this day.
sarah jones
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Saturday, September 08, 2007
God's Attribute
All of mankind's accomplishments in word and deed is but a fleeting thought never to be remembered again when compared to my God.
sarah jones
sarah jones
Saturday, September 01, 2007
For His Glory
GOD'S first and greatest object is his own glory.
There was a time, before all time, when there was no day, except the Ancient of days- when God dwelt alone in the magnificence of his sublime solitude.
Whether he should create, or not create was a question depending upon the answer to another question- "Would it be to his honor or not?"
He determined that he would glorify himself by creating; but, in creating, beyond all doubt, his motive was his own glory.
And since that time, he has ever ruled the earth, and blessed it with the same object in his infinite mind-his own glory and honor.
A lesser motive for God to have, would be less than divine.
The very highest virtue of God is for him to magnify himself in all his greatness as the Infinite and the Eternal. Whatever, then, God permits or does, he does with this one motive- his own glory.
And even salvation, costly though it was, and infinitely a benefaction to us, had for its first object, and for its grand result, the exaltation of the Being and of the attributes of the Supreme Ruler.
It is the highest position to which you or I could attain--to live for God.
There was a time, before all time, when there was no day, except the Ancient of days- when God dwelt alone in the magnificence of his sublime solitude.
Whether he should create, or not create was a question depending upon the answer to another question- "Would it be to his honor or not?"
He determined that he would glorify himself by creating; but, in creating, beyond all doubt, his motive was his own glory.
And since that time, he has ever ruled the earth, and blessed it with the same object in his infinite mind-his own glory and honor.
A lesser motive for God to have, would be less than divine.
The very highest virtue of God is for him to magnify himself in all his greatness as the Infinite and the Eternal. Whatever, then, God permits or does, he does with this one motive- his own glory.
And even salvation, costly though it was, and infinitely a benefaction to us, had for its first object, and for its grand result, the exaltation of the Being and of the attributes of the Supreme Ruler.
It is the highest position to which you or I could attain--to live for God.
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