Jonathan Simcoe
@jdsimcoe
Jonathan Simcoe
Getting pissed off is easy; asking God to bless your enemies can only be prayed through gritted, obedient teeth. Jesus knew this about the human heart's capacity to love so well. He said in Matthew 5:43-48:
... See more"If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people,
Beautiful articulation of Enemy Love being the thing that helps us reflect the Father’s identity; forming our identity as His children.
Within their newfound faith, many are recognizing spiritual activity within themselves—and in their environment—which is evil. Much of it is connected to personal activities from their previous life or ones they are still indulging in that hadn’t been previously identified as evidence of influence from the other side.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
‘Pride would be folly that disdained help and counsel at need; but you deal out such gifts according to your own designs. Yet the Lord of Gondor is not to be made the tool of other men’s purposes, however worthy. And to him there is no purpose higher in the world as it now stands than the good of Gondor; and the rule of Gondor, my lord, is mine and
... See moreJ.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
(A year later Ball would die of a similar ailment on the slopes of Dhaulagiri.)