God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The man who studies theology, and especially he who studies dogmatics, might watch carefully whether he increasingly does not think in the third rather than the second person. You know what I mean by that. This transition from one to the other level of thought, from a personal relationship with God to a merely technical reference, usually is exactly synchronized with the moment that I no longer can read the word of Holy Scripture as a word to me, but only as the object of exegetical endeavors. This is the first step toward the worst and most widespread ministers’ disease. For the minister frequently can hardly expound a text as a letter which has been written to him, but he reads the text under the impulse of the question, How would it be used in a sermon?
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows, but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean.
Bring water to a boil in saucepan; add teabags. Steep for 10 minutes;
discard tea bags. Combine sugar, orange juice and lemon juice in large
glass bowl. Stir in tea; add mint. Let stand for 30 mniutes; discard mint.
Chill until serving time.
Source: Great Recipes from Great Gardeners
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by dandelion@edeneast.com on Mar 3, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“Many favors which God gives us ravel out for want of hemming through our unthankfulness; for though prayer purchases blessings, giving praise keeps the quiet possession of them. #Thomas Fuller”
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