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I enjoy making wallpapers and I have a specific passion while doing them; that is, Soli Deo Gloria. Glory to God alone for everything. I make wallpapers to glorify my Creator and Sustainer and to remind me of important truths that have recently been burnt into my mind. If you would like a wallpaper, comment on the first post with the phrase you suggest as well as the visual elements you think should be utilised.
Most importantly however, do you know Christ? If you have ever lied, stolen anything or even looked with lust, you will be guilty before God Almighty on judgement day. As a righteous and holy God, He must punish you. You will be rightfully damned for eternity. However, God is also loving and merciful and so He has made a way of escape. Jesus Christ came to earth and lived a sinless life. He suffered and died on the cross where God lavished the wrath and anger that had been stored up for the sin that we have committed, on His son Jesus Christ (who is God incarnate - God in the form of a man). So now, we can recieve mercy for our sins if we repent (confess our sins and turn from them) and believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. If you have any questions about this, please email me...
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
2 Timothy 2:1-4
This image was sort of inspired by mdg's comment a while ago. I love this passage of Scripture, 2 Timothy 2:1-4 "You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier." First it speaks of enduring in the faith and not being like people spoken of in 2 Timothy 4:3 who "will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear" (MKJV; I like the "tickling ear" idea that the MKJV gets across that the NASB does not - and it is in the Greek "κνηθομενοι"). Secondly, it speaks of both discipleship and evangelism. So we are told to stand firm in the faith, to disciple and evangelise. Thirdly, endurance through sufferings is encouraged as Paul exhorts us to many times looking forward to the welcome we will receive upon our entrance into glory. And finally, to not become entangled in things of the world, as in 1 John 2:15 "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." Recently I found this hymn which has also been running through my mind:
My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace,
Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God;
'Tis His to lead me there - not mine, but His -
At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
No matter if the way be sometimes dark,
No matter though the cost be oft-times great,
He knoweth how I best shall reach the mark,
The way that leads to Him must needs be strait.
One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay;
One thing I do, I press towards my Lord;
My God my glory here, from day to day,
And in the glory there my great Reward.
I think that pretty much sums it up - not joy, nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. "At any cost, dear Lord, by any road." that is my prayer. Perhaps you should also go and look up the hymn "All for Jesus" - amen.
Most of the verse uses "Cardinal Alternate" the "Y" at the beginning and the reference are written in "Teutonic 4" and the background words are in "Times New Yorker"
My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace,
Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God;
'Tis His to lead me there - not mine, but His -
At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
No matter if the way be sometimes dark,
No matter though the cost be oft-times great,
He knoweth how I best shall reach the mark,
The way that leads to Him must needs be strait.
One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay;
One thing I do, I press towards my Lord;
My God my glory here, from day to day,
And in the glory there my great Reward.
I think that pretty much sums it up - not joy, nor peace, nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. "At any cost, dear Lord, by any road." that is my prayer. Perhaps you should also go and look up the hymn "All for Jesus" - amen.
Most of the verse uses "Cardinal Alternate" the "Y" at the beginning and the reference are written in "Teutonic 4" and the background words are in "Times New Yorker"
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