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“If you are lost, apart from God, this is the first application of these parables to you: you are valuable to God even in your lost condition. You may be worthless in your own sight because you can only see what you have made of yourself, but you should learn that you are valuable to God because (unlike yourself) He is able to see what you were created to be and what He can yet make of you.“
— Oct 11, 2025 04:29PM
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Jackie
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The book of Job contains a passage in which one of Job’s comforters says, “Affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.“ The image is highly poetic. It tells us that each generation can be compared to a stack of cordwood that is placed on the burning embers of the past.
— Nov 15, 2025 06:59AM
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“Sin traps people in indifference so that they often become more foolish about their self-preservation than animals. Geese and other birds will fly south as winter approaches. Rodents will store up for winter. Some animals hibernate. But human beings proceed in a manner they know is foolish and characteristically fail to make adequate provision for their future.“
— Nov 04, 2025 10:46AM
Jackie
is on page 91 of 266
“That is the message of this parable. I break it down into three parts: 1. there’s only one door, and it is a narrow one; 2. that door is now open, though it will one day close; and 3. our duty is to enter it.”
— Oct 26, 2025 05:35AM
