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For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life
John 3:16
Remember: God loves you more than you could ever imagine. Have a good day, and God bless!
Love, ACJC Christian Fellowship
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Okay so this blog has been seeing cobwebs and dust lying all around it... Nevermind I'll clear those! For now XD
Anyway, I came across this website which is more or less like a blog.... I came across this post which made me think about what.. er-hem Charles talked to us about when he came over to CF to speak. Remember that guy who was talking about God's glory, of which everything on this earth was made for His glory alone? Yep that's him. Well have any of you actually thought why this God we worship is so "self-centered", only doing things, ultimately, for Himself and not for us? The answer is found in one of the posts.. Take some time to go through it.
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When contemplating the subject of God’s glory, I have sometimes wondered why God desires so much to be glorified. Conceit and pride are wrong in human beings; yet it seems odd that a righteous God who honors humility would so loudly proclaim His own glory.
John Piper addresses this question in his book, Desiring God. I think he provides some excellent food for thought, closely related to these previous posts:
“[A reason] people stumble over the teaching that God exalts His own glory and seeks to be praised by His people is that the Bible teaches us not to be like that. For example, the Bible says that "Love seeks not its own" ( 1 Corinthians 13:5). How can God be loving and yet be utterly devoted to "seeking His own" glory and praise and joy? How can God be for us if He is so utterly for Himself?
The answer I propose is this: Because God is unique as an all-glorious, totally self-sufficient Being, He must be for Himself if He is to be for us. The rules of humility that belong to a creature cannot apply in the same way to its Creator. If God should turn away from Himself as the Source of infinite joy, He would cease to be God. He would deny the infinite worth of His own glory. He would imply that there is something more valuable outside Himself. He would commit idolatry.
This would be no gain for us. For where can we go when our God has become unrighteous?....
No, we do not turn God's self-exaltation into love by demanding that God ceases to be God. Instead we must come to see that God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
Consider this question: In view of God's infinite power and wisdom and beauty, what would His love to a human being involve? Or to put it another way: What could God give us to enjoy that would prove Him most loving? There is only one possible answer: Himself! If He withholds Himself from our contemplation and companionship, no matter what else He gives us, He is not loving.
There is the solution! We praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise. If we were not allowed to speak of what we value, and celebrate what we love, and praise what we admire, our joy would not be full. So if God loves us enough to make our joy full, He must not only give us Himself; He must also win from us the praise of our hearts-not because He needs to shore up some weakness in Himself or compensate for some deficiency, but because He loves us and seeks the fullness of our joy that can be found only in knowing and praising Him, the most magnificent of all Beings. If He is truly for us He must be for Himself!
God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking His own praise is the ultimately loving act. For him, self-exaltation is the highest virtue. When He does all things "for the praise of His glory," He preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world which can satisfy our longings. God is for us! And the foundation of this love is that God has been, is now, and always will be, for Himself.”
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Post found from:
www.beautyfromtheheart.org/labels/worldview.html
Yes, a wonderful post there. Isn't it amazing how God opposes the saying "Practise what you preach" and yet keep the status of being the Most High?
God bless all of you (:
-Jack
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We are the Christian Fellowship from Anglo Chinese Junior College! :)
Basically, the purpose of this blog is just to have a place where anyone interested in knowing more about God, or even just talking to other Christians, can come to.
This is a new blog, still under construction, so not much is up yet.
Do feel free to post up anything you like, as long as it's edifying and constructive. :)
Oh, and if you're interested, Melanie and Sharyl will be putting up a blog devoted completely to putting up song lyrics and chords. It will be linked to this site once it's up, so go and check it out!
Well, that's all. Have fun browsing!
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:1
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