Resource Manager Posted February 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2021 26 February 2021"Unless we keep in constant touch with the word of God we forget both what He has done for us and what He requires of us. It is a good thing, while enthusiasm is great and memory unimpaired "in the days of our youth", to grasp all we can of the word of God ... study the word of God in preference to books about the word ... books "on the Truth" are undoubtedly good and useful, but to let them take preference over the word itself is a grave error ... "If you keep in memory ..." sound advice from the great Apostle, who could speak out of a wide experience, and by which we do well to profit." - James CarterIf You Keep in Memory (1968) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 27, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2021 27 February 2021 "To think of God as inhabiting eternity and yet not being far from each one of us and to think of Christ as set down at God’s right hand and yet near to us in our every need, makes a demand on our finite human conceptions which is ultimately beyond them. Our presence is limited in time and space; we cannot be in more than one place at the same time. We therefore think in terms of being either in one place or another and we measure the distance between. Similarly we mark off the passage of time and for us the present is sharply differentiated from the past and the future. Omnipresence and omniscience are divine attributes which do not form part of our human experience. When we are thinking of them, therefore, we need to do so with humility, recognizing that we are considering divine things which are beyond our finite comprehension and taking care lest we fall into the error of making God too small. It is so very easy for us to think and speak of God in terms of our limited experience and so reveal our own little-mindedness. Even the well-worn phrase that God has a plan with the earth smacks of this, as though the Almighty were an architect or a politician. Indeed He is sometimes spoken of as the Great Architect (Hebrews 11:10) of the universe, but like most such figures it is a crude and inaccurate description, not likely to help us to raise our thoughts about God above the shackles of our earthbound environment. An architect who plans and supervises a building remains outside and apart from it: it may indeed bear the stamp of his mind and character, but when it is finished, the architect passes on to design another building. But God never passes on or leaves His creation because He is not only above and beyond it but at the same time within and among it or, in the language of theology, not only transcendent but immanent. However difficult the task may be, this is a truth of which we must never lose sight, for as soon as we do we begin to reduce the glory of God and the wonder of the divine condescension." - E.J. NewmanThe Life We Share (1962) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2021 28 February 2021"Religious practices and traditions can get absorbed into our worship, for no other reason than that they appeal to us. And the attitudes and priorities of worldly thinking are always a potent influence, because we are naturally inclined towards such thinking. All these, and many other things, can gradually water down or quite alter the things that we believe. So, whilst we need to move with the times, to present the gospel in the most attractive and topical way, we must beware of mixing things up and thus losing our way with God ..." - Tecwyn MorganSolomon – Wise or Foolish? (1999) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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