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Swimming Upstream

Most women probably get love notes from their husbands... I get quotes from Spurgeon, Scripture, excerpts from Isaac Watts hymns, etc. sent to my Blackberry or left in the comments of my blog. I actually find it rather romantic. :-D

What is faith?

Faith is reason at rest in God. --Spurgeon

My husband left the above quote in the comments of THIS post.

...And now for a little morsel of meat on truth and passions. (I am giving everyone an idea of what my response to my husbands "love letter" is. Indubitably we both swim upstream on the issue of romance as we encourage each other in the truth war. *snicker*)

...the issue of truth is an issue of the heart before it is an issue of the head. When the heart is in love with self-exaltation and independence and the pleasures of sin, the mind will inevitably distort the truth or suppress the truth in order to protect the idols of the heart. What is needed is not just new ideas or more information, but a new heart. And a new set of passions and desires and pleasures... So here is the great lesson to be learned: the reason the mind evades, twists, distorts, manipulates and suppresses the truth of God is not mainly that we are mentally deficient, but because we are morally deficient. We suppress the Light of God's glory and power because we love the darkness of our own independence. We love our sins, our self-determination, and therefore we suppress the Truth that God is God and that we are to depend on him and live for his glory.

And this, Paul says in Romans 1:18, is why the wrath of God is being poured out. This suppression of the truth of his glory and his power and his deity and his goodness, because of our love affair with unrighteousness, makes him furious. And we should tremble. --Piper

So... what is the solution? The ONLY solution?

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." --Romans 1:16,17

So far shall thy knowledge go, but no further; and thou mayest thank God it is so, for thus he leaves room for faith, and gives cause for prayer.--Spurgeon

Apparently I am a little more long-winded in my responses to my husband. Go figure! :-D

(Your turn, honey!)

Posted by Lisa on December 22, 2007

Comments

Merry Christmas, Lisa!

Posted by: kim from hiraeth | December 23, 2007 05:29 PM

Thank you, Kim. May the LORD bless you and your family this Christmas. :-)

My husband's response to this post, BTW, was to sit with me and read Isaiah Chapter 59 and discuss especially verse 2. It wasn't exactly a response directed to the post as it was a part of our ongoing discussion that relates to the truth war that we are in the midst of.

Posted by: Lisa Nunley | December 24, 2007 11:12 AM

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