FROM THE KEYBOARD

When our sight is in alignment with God’s sight, the resulting insight gives us foresight. Thus, by looking back, we learn from the past; by looking up, we discern in the present; and by looking out, we are able to warn others for the future. "These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual" (1 Corinthians 2:13).

Since man is the crown of God’s creation, the enemy seeks to defy God by de-crowning man. And he does this by attacking the image of God in man, leading to the carnage of man departing from God. However, although we have been de-crowned by sin, Christ took on the crown of the cross to bring us new life in Him. "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:4-5).

Praise is a weapon that confounds the enemy and silences the adversary. Praise is the strength of the vulnerable when we proclaim that God is able. "Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger" (Psalm 8:2).

The more we move away from the Designer, the more undone the design becomes. You see, when 1 + 1 no longer equals 2, then everything mathematically calculated from there will never be true. God's creative order is designed for human order. "Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but happy is he who keeps the law" (Proverbs 29:18).

It is better to be a part of a church that is closest to the Bible rather than the one closest to your house. Full stop. "But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life" (John 6:68).

God sanctifies us through affliction because of the sanctity of His affection. In other words, since His love is holy, He loves us too much to not make us holy and often through the sanctification of affliction. "I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, that in faithfulness You have afflicted me" (Psalm 119:75).