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5 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Col 4:5–6.
Dedicated to my dear brother in Christ - Marvin Salgado
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbjzPKTfjlc&index=4&list=... - Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche (Alexander Flemming)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlMAfJIKkCw - Young Oceans
When gracious Lord, when shall it be
That earth will find her all in Thee?
The fullness of Thy promise, prove
Seal me with Thy eternal love
Thee, only Thee I'm fain to find
I cast the world and sin behind
O my Redeemer, hear this plea
And let me find my all in Thee
Show me Your Way, my love, my Lord
Draw me to grace, so strong and sure
I run to Your mercy, where I am free
Let me find my all in Thee
Lord I am blind, be Thou my sight
Lord I am weak, be Thou my might
A helper of the helpless be
And let me find my all in Thee
Show me Your Way, my love, my Lord
Draw me to grace, so strong and sure
I run to Your mercy, where I am free
Let me find my all in Thee
Please mend my soul, my frame, my life
A contrite heart, Thou won't despise
Take now this pain and misery
And let me find my all in Thee
Show me Your Way, my love, my Lord
Draw me to grace, so strong and sure
I run to Your mercy, where I am free
Let me find my all in Thee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeLVOl0fxwU - Christy Nockels
There is a love so sure
Nothing it can’t endure
There is a life it brings
That’s greater than anything
I once was dead within
Hollowed by all my sin
Lost and so led astray
But Your love reached all the way
Your love reached all the way...
* Oh, the wondrous Cross
Where the Prince of Glory died
Oh, the glorious Cross
Where Your mercy bled for us
You overcame the grave, waking to a world You saved
Oh, the wondrous Cross
Now You’re my resting place
When trouble I must face
I won’t be overwhelmed
Jesus, Your love has won
And my faith looks up to Thee
Sweet Lamb of Calvary
My song will ever rise
To You alone
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Worthy is the Lamb
He does not love us if we love Him. He loves us with an unconditional love; therefore, we should love Him. The message of the covenant is one of God’s totally free grace to His people. Of course, it calls for a response of total commitment. But notice the order: God’s covenant love is not the result of our commitment; it is the cause of it. The pattern is, "I will, therefore you should;" not "I will, but only if you will first." - Sinclair Ferguson)
Reference: A Heart for God, 1987, p. 36-37, by permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
To be a Christian is to walk, moved by the Spirit, in the footsteps of Jesus. Traditionally known as la sequela Christi, this kind of discipleship is the root and the ultimate meaning of the preferential option for the poor.
This commitment—the expression “preferential option for the poor” is recent but its content is biblical—is an essential component of discipleship. At its core is a spiritual experience of the mystery of God who is, according to Meister Eckhart, both the “unnamable” and the “omni-namable” one. Eckhart had to reach this point in order to capture the deeper meaning of this commitment to the absent and anonymous of history. The free and demanding love of God is expressed in the commandment of Jesus to “Love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 13: 34). This implies a universal love that excludes no one, and at the same time is a priority for the least ones of history, the oppressed and the insignificant. Simultaneously living out universality and preference reveals the God of love and makes present the mystery hidden for all time but now unveiled: as Paul says, the proclamation of Jesus as the Christ (see Rom 16: 25–26). This is what the preferential option for the poor points to: walking with Jesus the Messiah.
-In the Company of the Poor Conversations between Dr. Paul Farmer and Father Gustavo Gutiérrez Edited by Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z3pjXmNq2g - Elenyi & Sarah Young
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's redeeming love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.
1. If you could hie to Kolob
In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward
With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever,
Through all eternity,
Find out the generation
Where Gods began to be?
2. Or see the grand beginning,
Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation,
Where Gods and matter end?
Methinks the Spirit whispers,
“No man has found ‘pure space,’
Nor seen the outside curtains,
Where nothing has a place.”
If you could hie to Kolob
In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward
With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever,
Through all eternity,
Find out the generation
Where Gods began to be?
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above
Lord, I am willing
to receive what You give
to lack what You withhold
to relinquish what You take
to suffer what You inflict
to be what You require.
And Lord, if others are to be Your messengers to me,
I am willing to hear and heed what they have to say. Amen
- Nelson Mink (552 AD?)
Therefore thus says the LORD:
“If you return, I will restore you,
and you shall stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
but you shall not turn to them.
(Jeremiah 15:19 ESV)
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who lwalk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 84:8–12.