“Perhaps I should be clearer: it is not that we look, get some sense of what Christ is like, and then go away and strain to make ourselves similar; we become like him through the very looking. The very sight of him is a transforming thing. For now, contemplating him by faith, we begin to be transformed into his likeness (2 Cor 3: 18), but so potent is his glory that when we clap eyes upon him physically at his second coming, then “we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 Jn 3: 2). That full, unveiled, physical sight of the glorified Jesus will be so majestically effecting it will transform our very bodies around us. The sight of him now by the Spirit makes us more like him spiritually; the sight of him then, face to face, will finally make us—body and soul—as he is.”- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
--George Herbert (1593-1633)
_Jacula Prudentum_ [1651], Number 155
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The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.- Bert Newton
"Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to his mercy." –John Calvin
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc
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