Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
Interpretation
Initially, one may emphasize the importance of God, but later comes an understanding of how God is represented and understood through various means.
This quote reflects on the development of one's understanding of the divine. At first, individuals may focus solely on the concept of God as a singular entity of utmost importance. However, as they grow in their faith or understanding, they begin to recognize the various ways God is represented and experienced in the world, acknowledging the complexity of divine interactions and teachings.
In practice
This quote can be used in a theological discussion about the nature of God.
God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.
You donβt have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.
The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
All great and precious things are lonely.
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.
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