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The faith which pleases God is the assurance that when we turn to him we will find the All- satisfying Treasure. We will find our heart's delight...Once we had no delight in God, and Christ was just a vague historical figure. What we enjoyed was food and friendships and shopping and sports and art and TV and travel...but not God. He was an idea-even a good one-and a topic of discussion; but he was not a treasure of delight. Then something miraculous happened. It was like the opening of the eyes of the blind during the golden dawn. First the stunned silence before the unspeakable beauty of holiness. Then a shock and terror that we had actually loved the darkness. Then the settling stillness of joy that this is the soul's end. The quest is over. We would give anything if we might be granted to live in the presence of this glory forever and ever. And then, faith-that confidence that Christ has made a way for me, a sinner, to live in his glorious fellowship forever, the confidence that if I come to God through Christ, he will give me the desire of my heart to share his holiness and behold his glory.
-John Piper Desiring God
“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”” (John 10:28-30) (Read by Max McLean. Provided by The Listener's Audio Bible.)
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I don't know...I think Lydia's tummy might be bigger!
So who's flip-flops are Nora sportin'? :)
Those are the cutest tummies I have ever seen! I want to gobble them both up!
:-)
They don't GET any cuter :)
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