Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The World's Ways Don't Work in the Real World

What happens when the pleasures of married life are separated from their effects? Things like Conception Day, a bid by a Russian province to produce some semblance of a next generation. It's the old irony: the secular couples, who often roll their eyes at the size of Christian families, watch their numbers dwindle while the Christians are fruitful and multiply.

Monday, September 10, 2007

God is Sovereign

And Hannah prayed, and said, "My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in Thy salvation. There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside Thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive; He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and He hath set the world upon them.

He will keep the feet of His saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness, for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and He shall give strength unto His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed."

I've always loved those verses. How can we read them and not be confident in God's power?

~1 Samuel 2:1-10.

Yes, I do realize that I was two weeks in posting this, and not one as I said. I was gone last Monday and have either been busy or procrastinated since then. :-)

My next post may be something about John Locke and his views on government, but that is not fixed in stone.

~Connor