Graham's Blog

June 12, 2016

I Asked The Lord That I Might Grow - John Newton

I asked the Lord that I might grow
In faith, and love, and every grace;
Might more of His salvation know,
And seek, more earnestly, His face.

‘Twas He who taught me thus to pray,
And He, I trust, has answered prayer!
But it has been in such a way,
As almost drove me to despair.

I hoped that in some favored hour,
At once He’d answer my request;
And by His love’s constraining pow’r,
Subdue my sins, and give me rest.

Instead of this, He made me feel
The hidden evils of my heart;
And let the angry pow’rs of hell
Assault my soul in every part.

Yea more, with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe;
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
Blasted my gourds, and laid me low.

Lord, why is this, I trembling cried,
Wilt thou pursue thy worm to death?
“‘Tis in this way, the Lord replied,
I answer prayer for grace and faith.

These inward trials I employ,
From self, and pride, to set thee free;
And break thy schemes of earthly joy,
That thou may’st find thy all in Me.”

May 19, 2016

Love, Truth, and Judgment

"If you never know truth then you never know love." - The Black Eyed Peas

"True love does not exist in the absence of judgment, but in the presence of it." - Michael Ramsden

(Which is basically the same thing)

May 18, 2016

Will Heaven Be Boring?

"Since God is infinite, He is also infinitely interesting."

- Robert Godfrey (answering a question on whether Heaven will be boring)

"You look at the gamut of feelings that people have to encounters with God in the Bible - some people are driven to their knees, some repent in sack cloth and ashes, some people just weep endlessly, some people are paralyzed or you see Balshazzar with his knees knocking - you see all these different human emotional responses to people encountering God - I've never seen anywhere in the Bible where God appears (and) somebody is bored."

- R.C. Sproul (same question)

February 22, 2016

Lego Hydroplane

Swimming!

Quotables - C.S. Lewis

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

- C.S. Lewis