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Christ Is Enough

"I have no longings for another; I'm satisfied in Him alone." Is Christ enough for us? I pray daily for a grateful heart, remembering that I could just as easily have been on the fast track to hell, but by His grace alone, I am not. There is nothing else on earth that can satisfy like Christ who "is all in all" (Ephesians 1:23 NASB). In Heaven we will be able to be enamored with the beauty of Christ's face. If we don't want this, then we don't want Heaven. I Will Glory In My Redeemer, if you click on the song title in the list, you will hear the first verse. If you order anything from Sovereign Grace Ministries, shipping is free and their prices are very inexpensive.

I Will Glory In My Redeemer

I will glory in my Redeemer

whose priceless blood has ransomed me.

Mine was the sin that drove the bitter nails

and hung him on that judgment tree.

I will glory in my Redeemer

who crushed the pow'r of sin and death.

My only Savior before the Holy Judge:

The Lamb who is my Righteousness.

The Lamb who is my Righteousness.

I will glory in my Redeemer.

My life He bought, my love He owns.

I have no longings for another;

I'm satisfied in Him alone.

I will glory in my Redeemer.

His faithfulness, my standing place.

Though foes are mighty and rush upon me,

My feet are firm, held by His grace.

My feet are firm, held by His grace.

I will glory in my Redeemer

who carries me on eagle's wings.

He crowns my life with lovingkindness.

His triumph song I'll ever sing.

I will glory in my Redeemer

who waits for me at gates of gold

And when He calls me it will be Paradise:

His face forever to behold!

His face forever to behold!

Discontentment & Idols of The Heart

What is it that we desire most? What is it that will make us happy and content? What motivates us to do the things we do? Do we complain? Why?

"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Matthew 6:21-22

The heart is the source of all human motivations. If we do things for our own pleasure, peace, freedom, love, comfort, meaning, success, control, respect or reputation we have exchanged the Living God for an idol. In reality, all sin can be summarized as idolatry. When we commit a sin, we substitute obedience to God for obedience to something else whether the world, flesh or devil.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

1 John 2:15-16

Jesus Christ, the all-powerful Creator, Redeemer, our Righteousness, is not enough. We need something more. I need Christ and . . .

Do we believe this? Do our actions show this by complaining, grumbling, in bitter envy, jealousy, strife and discontented attitudes? Are we convinced that someone or something else will fully satisfy us more than Christ? Compromised trust in Christ is really a turning away from God because we're not satisfied only with Christ; we want more.

The human heart is a factory of idols. Our sin nature produces insatiable, unending lists of desires. Those desires are idols if it is not a hunger and thirst after the Living God.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

Matthew 5:6

Who is our Righteousness but Christ Himself?

Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.

I said to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no good besides You."

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy;

In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Psalm 16:1, 2, 5, 6, 11

See how content the psalmist is in the LORD? See how grateful he is to God for all of His benefits? How about the contentment of Paul. As we read through his epistles, we know that he didn't write these words in a spiritual vacuum.

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:11-13

But godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment. For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.

1 Timothy 6:6-8

And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. Our circumstances are always changing, in some ways we like and other ways in which we don't like. But God stays the same. He is uppermost in His own affections. There is no higher being, nothing more satisfying than knowing God. That's why God commands us to love Him above everything else, with every part of us. God is glorified by godly means but we must understand that God's glory is the end also.

In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him, with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.

Ephesians 1:8-10

All things - ALL THINGS - find their purpose in Christ. If we, as true believers, do not live as though we are completely satisfied in Christ, what reason will non-believers have to consider the gospel? As chasing after the world is vain (Ecclesiastes) and Christ doesn't satisfy, then there truly is no hope for any of us.

May we cry out with the psalmist and Peter:

Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 73:25-26

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God."

John 6:68-69

Christ is enough, more than enough for me - may my actions and attitudes reflect that.

Independence Day, 2009

Two Scriptures in particular have been on my mind all day, in reference to our nation:

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:1

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

2 Chronicles 7:13-14

America is not a Christian nation though it was founded upon a Judeo-Christian ethic that recognized the authority of Scripture in regards to our Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe and Confusion that occur in the first 11 chapters of Genesis (and all that follow for that matter). The founding fathers recognized the sinful nature and proposed the laws and system of government as a way to deal with it - to keep lawlessness and those individuals in power, in check. The further away our varying governing authorities get from the authority of God's Word, the more arbitrary they deem the law, the more corrupt our society will become. America will soon collapse if we continue on this slippery slope.

Confession & Petition

Holy Lord,

I have sinned times without number,

and been guilty of pride and unbelief,

of failure to find thy mind in thy Word,

of neglect to seek thee in my daily life.

My transgressions and short-comings

present me with a list of accusations,

But I bless thee that they will not stand against me,

for all have been laid on Christ;

Go on to subdue my corruptions,

and grant me grace to live above them.

Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings

of the mind bring my spirit into subjection,

but do thou rule over me in liberty and power.

I thank thee that many of my prayers

have been refused-

I have asked amiss and do not have,

I have prayed from lusts and been rejected,

I have longed for Egypt and been given a

wilderness.

Go on with thy patient work,

answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers,

and fitting me to accept it.

Purge me from every false desire,

every base aspiration,

everything contrary to thy rule.

I thank thee for thy wisdom and thy love,

for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject,

for sometimes putting me into the furnace

to refine my gold and remove my dross.

No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin.

If thou shouldst give me choice to live

in pleasure and keep my sins,

or to have them burnt away with trial,

give me sanctified affliction.

Deliver me from every evil habit,

every accretion of former sins,

everything that dims the brightness

of thy grace in me,

everything that prevents me taking delight

in thee.

Then I shall bless thee, God of Jeshurun,

for helping me to be upright.

[Amen.]

(The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions. Ed. Arthur Bennett. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1975. pp 138-139.)

Jeshurun: Deuteronomy 32-33 and Isaiah 44:2

Moriah & Lily

Moriah turned 19 months on the 26th and Lily turns 6 months tomorrow.

Moriah continues to develop her language and pronunciation very well. She tries to sing the alphabet song. She enjoys sitting at the piano and banging on the keys. She continues to study flash cards with Daddy and her vocabulary is increasing. And she's just started teething again. There are two new teeth coming in the top spaces between her incisors and molars, one on each side.

Adventures in pre-potty training continue. The other day, as I was changing her diaper and searching for another to clothe her bottom and she came into the bathroom, lifted the lid to the potty and I told her to sit on the potty and she did indeed pee! It was exciting to see her initiate the use of the potty. And yesterday, as she was playing and grunting to defecate, Jeramy scooped her up and had her sit on the potty. She had this little tiny ball at the bottom! So that's exciting. One thought I had was just to let her run around the house naked and learn to use the potty. :-) She doesn't hold it for at least two hours yet, but she is beginning to know the sensation of her bladder.

Lily has thoroughly enjoyed a jumping toy, Fisher-Price Jumperoo. Sometimes she just goes crazy-ready to bounce off again before her feet hit the floor! She loves to play on her tummy. One week ago she rolled from her back to her belly with zero assistance! She hasn't done it since, but I'm still teaching her the art of rolling over.

Lily is still breast feeding. I can't believe that it's been six months and we're still breast feeding. It feels like a long time when I consider how old she is, but it seems like such a short time because it's been much easier this go around. Hopefully we can go to 9 months breast feeding so that I'll have one year under my belt (for preventative measures). She has started eating rice cereal for breakfast after her breast milk and drinking water from a bottle. I have attempted to give her peas at lunch time, but I don't think she likes the taste. I hate peas too, so I can respect that! :-)

I don't have a lot of current pictures yet. I'm waiting on new batteries, but I promise I will have them up soon.