Sublime

For reflection: 2 Chronicles 15:8–15 Authority exercised with humility and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. —from ”Membership,” The Weight of Glory

Having been graciously called into the presence of a holy but forgiving God, we now enter into the listening chapter of worship. This includes hearing the announcement of his law or will for our lives, which is not a burdensome yoke we try to “keep” in order to earn our salvation—we’ve already been reminded that we are forgiven in (and only because

Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,[139] to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages; 9 saying to the prisoners, “Come out,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”

We would learn again of God the Father and Creator who has preserved our life through the dark night and awakened us to a new day; God the Son and Savior of the World, who vanquished death and hell for us, and dwells in our midst as Victor; God the Holy Spirit who pours the bright light of God’s Word into our hearts early in the morning, driving aw

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I

When you’re doing what you know to be the will of God—when your desire is shifted toward His glory, when your goal is to participate in His kingdom, when your impatience is swallowed up in surrendering to His lordship—you’ll begin to “recognize His voice” above all other internal and external opinion (John 10:4 hcsb).