A series on singleness and but also many insightful things for just life. Listen whether you are single or not.
http://new.livestream.com/redeemer-nyc/single
One quote almost verbatim by Kathy Keller:
Sometimes the most crushing things like singlness or illness is that it may be lifelong. We look down this bleak corridor of years and say we cannot do it, etc. But the good news is that we don’t have to. We only have to take a day size chunk at a time. God gives us His grace. He upholds His presence just for the day. Jesus says that the day has its troubles of its own(?)
What God won’t do is enter our the dark imagination of worse nightmare and give hypothetical grace for you to see how well God will be taking care of you ten twenty years. God doesn’t play that game. If you want to imagine your life what you think it might be, you’re imagining it without the presence of God that will be there if you get there. If you get there He is already there waiting. But while you’re doing the whole imagination He is not in that.
Betsy Childs – God doesn’t hand out grace in a life time supply but given it to each day. If you feel you do not have the grace for your whole life, is because you weren’t given it yet.
He won’t give what you want/need until you need it.
Some of my other notes probably from Tim Keller:If we beat ourselves with how we aren’t married we’re putting selves in idolatry of traditional culture. Then if we have sex or live selfishly, we are in the idolatry of western world.
Greatest lie serpent said was that if we obey God we are missing out.Resisting doesn’t mean repression and ignoring. But it takes understanding it to have that self-control.If your marriage is “Good” you may not be going to Christ as much. The goal is the wedding supper at the end.Then if we have sex or live selfishly, we are in the idolatry of western world.Sex can even ruin friendships because it builds a character of selfishness when it occurs outside of marriage or even as masturbation.We lie in thinking God doesn’t love us much and that we love God much.
http://new.livestream.com/redeemer-nyc/single
One quote almost verbatim by Kathy Keller:
Sometimes the most crushing things like singlness or illness is that it may be lifelong. We look down this bleak corridor of years and say we cannot do it, etc. But the good news is that we don’t have to. We only have to take a day size chunk at a time. God gives us His grace. He upholds His presence just for the day. Jesus says that the day has its troubles of its own(?)
What God won’t do is enter our the dark imagination of worse nightmare and give hypothetical grace for you to see how well God will be taking care of you ten twenty years. God doesn’t play that game. If you want to imagine your life what you think it might be, you’re imagining it without the presence of God that will be there if you get there. If you get there He is already there waiting. But while you’re doing the whole imagination He is not in that.
Betsy Childs – God doesn’t hand out grace in a life time supply but given it to each day. If you feel you do not have the grace for your whole life, is because you weren’t given it yet.
He won’t give what you want/need until you need it.
Some of my other notes probably from Tim Keller:If we beat ourselves with how we aren’t married we’re putting selves in idolatry of traditional culture. Then if we have sex or live selfishly, we are in the idolatry of western world.
Greatest lie serpent said was that if we obey God we are missing out.Resisting doesn’t mean repression and ignoring. But it takes understanding it to have that self-control.If your marriage is “Good” you may not be going to Christ as much. The goal is the wedding supper at the end.Then if we have sex or live selfishly, we are in the idolatry of western world.Sex can even ruin friendships because it builds a character of selfishness when it occurs outside of marriage or even as masturbation.We lie in thinking God doesn’t love us much and that we love God much.
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