❝ The irony is that while God does not need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
— Francis Chan (via creation-resounds)
❝ That idea [the one] is a steaming pile of garbage that has woman after woman in a search for the unicorn, the oompa loompa… See in this idiot ideology that we’ve created with our movies, if one person marries the wrong person doesn’t that jack it up for everybody? This is a foolish idea. I’m just a man and my wife is just a girl. She cannot complete me, cannot fulfill me, cannot make sense of my world. And to expect her to is to put pressure on her that she will be unable to carry, will be unable to sustain, and will be unable to bring any of those things into my life which will create in me an anger towards her for not doing what she was never designed to do, created to do, or able to do. So when a woman says this man will complete me, this man will make sense of my world, this man will help me know who I am, this man will heal my wounds… you are putting weight on a man that he will be unable to sustain and it will only be a matter of time before he develops hobbies to get out from under that expectation. Put your hope in God, not men. We’re sinners which means sometimes on accident and sometimes on purpose we are going to fail you and wound you. Don’t ask us to be more than we were designed to be.
— Matt Chandler (via keepinitsouthern)
You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown, where feet my fail. And there I find You in the mystery, in oceans deep my faith will stand. (at Pulau Karimun Jawa)
2776 listens“Second Chance” -Rend Collective Experiment
Tumblr world- I wish I could put into words the significance of today. Thankfully songs like this come along that help explain the explosions and collisions going on in my soul. They talk about a man, who, being fully God, stepped into our world. And ultimately stepped onto a cross. To pay the debt that I owe- that you owe. Although completely innocent, He was beat, humiliated, and killed. For us. This is the picture of our God- a Father who loves the world He created, and would go to any length to save us….adopt us. Jesus Christ stands in my place. His blood has made me righteous before a just God.
…countless second chances we’ve been given at the cross.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5yes yes yes.
Dear You,
When God broke Adam’s bone
It was more than a fracture in his chest,
Leaving a void the size of eternity
Right next to the heart of every man,
But that is why i love you my dear
For you set my bones in place
When i go astray, keeping me together
With tendons of love and grace
So daughter of Eve
Know that your heart
Fills a void in me
That no other eternity could
❝ Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?
— Isaiah 40:12 (via perfectdreamer-cooke)
❝ Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
— Psalm 119:37 (via samsconsciousness)
