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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
A.W. Tozer

In considering the conflict between the sovereignty of God in election and the human responsibility, J.I. Packer writes: What is an antinomy? The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines it as ';”a contradiction between conclusions which seem equally logical, reasonable or necessary.” For our purposes, however, this definition is not quite accurate; the opening words should read “an appearance of contradiction.” For the whole point of an antinomy – in theology, at any rate – is that it is not a real contradiction, though it looks like one. It is an apparent incompatibility between two apparent truths. An antinomy exists when a pair of principles stand side by side, seemingly irreconcilable, yet both undeniable.
J.I. Packer

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    Broken and spilled out

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    One day a plain village womanDriven by love for her LordRecklessly poured out a valuable essenceDisregarding the scornAnd once it was broken and spilled outA fragrance filled all the roomLike a pris’ner released from his shacklesLike a spirit set free from the tomb

    Broken and spilled outJust for love of you JesusMy most precious treasureLavished on TheeBroken and spilled outAnd poured at Your feetIn sweet abandonLet me be spilled outAnd used up for Thee

    Lord You were God’s precious treasureHis loved and His own perfect SonSent here to show meThe love of the FatherJust for love it was doneAnd though You were perfect and holyYou gave up Yourself willinglyYou spared no expense for my pardonYou were used up and wasted for me

    Broken and spilled outJust for love of me JesusGod’s most precious treasureLavished on meYou were broken and spilled outAnd poured at my feetIn sweet abandon LordYou were spilled out and used up for Me

    In sweet abandon, let me be spilled outAnd used up for Thee

    Songwriters: Bill George / Gloria Gaither
    Broken and Spilled Out lyrics © Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol CMG Publishing

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