Day: May 24, 2011

The Delight of Despair

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Oswald Chambers 90x115by Oswald Chambers

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead —Revelation 1:17

It may be that, like the apostle John, you know Jesus Christ intimately. Yet when He suddenly appears to you with totally unfamiliar characteristics, the only thing you can do is fall “at His feet as dead.” There are times when God cannot reveal Himself in any other way than in His majesty, and it is the awesomeness of the vision which brings you to the delight of despair. You experience this joy in hopelessness, realizing that if you are ever to be raised up it must be by the hand of God.

What God says to the Wicked

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Mack Tomlinson 90x115by Mack Tomlinson 

"But to the wicked God says, ‘What right do you have to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?’" – Psalm 50:16

There are some things that God especially dislikes. He dislikes them so much that He directly speaks to them in certain places in Scripture. One of those things is when people who do not know him quote the Bible and claim to be Christians when they are not.

In Psalm 50:16, God says directly to any unbeliever,

"What right do you have to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?"