Remember: We are but Dust & Ashes

 Romans 5 (NASB)

 9 Much more then, having now been justified [e]by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved [f]by His life. 11 And not only this, [g]but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.


Ephesians 2 (NIVUK)
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.


Psalm 33:6 (NLT)

The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.

LORD, have Your way in me...

God loves us, yes, more than we can imagine.

But He is still Who He Is.

He Is.

Wrath. Justice. Peace. Comfort. Patience. Goodness.

Love.

很累啊！

我真的不行。现在我必须写我的作业呢。

“Leaders, keep the faces, the souls, and the eternities of your followers before you as you face temptation.”

When calling leaders, consider carefully if this man’s teaching and life declare and demonstrate the power, beauty, and purity of God — not perfectly, but tangibly and consistently.

“for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up” (Isaiah 9:16). When Israel wandered, they were being led by the decisions and declarations of leaders, men who sacrificed the good of the people for their own personal benefit (Isaiah 10:2). They were more concerned about their reputation, their success, and their profit than they were for the safety, faith, and holiness of the men and women God had put under their care. And so the flock was “swallowed up,” swept up into the resistance and rebellion, into the pain and destruction of God’s hatred against sin.

The influence of these leaders was so corrupt, so pervasive, that God removed his mercy and compassion even from the most fragile and vulnerable. God abandoned even the wives without husbands and the children without fathers.

That should take our breath away. God had said, “You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child” (Exodus 22:22). David had cried to God, “To you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless” (Psalm 10:14). He is the “father of the fatherless and protector of widows” (Psalm 68:5). Yet Isaiah writes that this God, in the wake of corrupt leadership, “has no compassion on their fatherless and widows” (Isaiah 9:17). That is the consequence of sin in a community, especially when a leader falls, dragging his trusting followers down with him.

You cannot quarantine yourself in your iniquity while you’re pouring yourself into others through sermons or counsel or influence. It’s like trying to filter the coffee back out of the water after it’s been brewed.

“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16). 

And finally, a word to followers: Treasure faithfulness, holiness, and purity in leadership. Pray for your pastor’s purity. Commend a leader’s character when you see it. Don’t take it for granted. Cultivate it among aspiring leaders — future pastors, elders, fathers, and mothers. Celebrate every kind of grace God gives — the grace that saves wretched, helpless sinners and the grace that slowly but surely makes them pure and whole again.

The qualifications for church leadership (1 Timothy 3:1–7; Titus 1:5–9) are not a scorecard for comparing pastors — not a way for filling out the back of a spiritual baseball card. The qualifications are the character-focused fences built by God to protect his precious sons and daughters. Qualifications do not nullify the gospel of grace. They commend grace wherever it grows, and they guard grace at work throughout the church.

The collapse of a leader’s ministry does not signal the collapse of Christ’s church. No, not even hell can prevail against her (Matthew 16:18). Heaven is not thrown into crisis with a scandal, however shocking or hard the fall. It is a sad and sober moment, though, for us to assess ourselves — our resolute dependence on God for the grace to live worthy of God (Philippians 2:12–13) — and to pray for the protection of his children in churches everywhere.

taken from http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-leaders-fall-all-are-punished

Kibroth-hattaavah

"Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving." Numbers 11:34 (ESV)

Punishment for uncontented heart

(Thank you for this, Coach Len! c: It's Prayer & Fasting week, guys! :D hehe)

These beauties~ :3

One Way

Where do you expect to find an answer, in this world? From his head?

Why do you want to know what he has to say or think about it? He only seems as if he's all that.

It took you a long time, a long while, a far journey, to get to this point in the game. And yet, it's still not fit or right for you and him.

Most especially for you.

今天我觉得我真不好。因为我要哭了！您可以帮我吗？住耶稣。。。:( 我知道了！您可以帮我啊！就帮我到了我现感谢您。多谢！:((

Everlasting

Your pain is not forever.

Only Jesus Christ and the Father's Love is.

:)

;)

You can do it, through grace, by faith, in Christ.

Forever and ever, amen!

I Feel...

1. Pain
1. Primarily Physical
2. Recently Emotional
3. Spiritual was a long time ago; long story
   
2. Weak
1. Physically
2. Emotionally
   
3. Tired
1. Physically
2. Emotionally
3. Mentally
   
4. Emotional
   (Need I expound on that...?)
   
5. Joyful
1. Emotionally
2. Mentally
3. Spiritually
   
6. Satisfied
   In JESUS CHRIST alone
   
7. Strong
   In JESUS CHRIST alone

Hello, Good, Friend.

Wake me, up, when September ends.

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(Y)

And by Grace, my fears, relieved. :) @-) .-. @-@v

It feels so awkward, God, why CAN'T I take it? . . .

DAMN, SON. DO IT, NOW.

(Y) (Y) (Y)

My Comforter

Jesus, You are the strength when I am weak. You make me lie down, in an enveloping softness, in the center of a Comforter; effective as much as the very object of a comforter.

Your arms are wide and strong; soft and peaceful; overwhelmingly comfortable and easing to my being as a whole.

This will be the deathx1029348654765823845u84 of me:

I am lost.

Been so lost.

And, here, I do not know how

To

Act

The way

I should

And

To

Do as you would.

Who can say where she may hide? Where is Love?

Something tangible.

Audible.

Anything,

Reachable.

Probability of making me

Desperate,

101%.

Getting what I deserve?

Or famously,

What

I

Think

I

Deserve.


I Deserve Ice Cream.

Philippians 4 New International Version (NIV)

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵ Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

TODAY :D

Hosanna in the Highest, if You would be so gracious...

To please grant me the peace, the grace, the wisdom, the faith, the hope, and Your Kingdom...

yeah

um

well first time in four months ive had a week of rest

i mean

whats that about.