We Love God!

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

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Francis Schaeffer

We have failed to understand that children and young people are not God-lovers until the Spirit changes them. They are dead to God. Our attempts at getting these young people to “pray the prayer” when they were small have not necessarily made them children of God. Their behavior belies the true state of their hearts. God has said that the only hope for them, therefore, is the regenerating work of the Spirit in the context of the preaching of the Word (James 1:18). However, our inadequate view of depravity and the inability of man has led us to resort instead to a greater confidence in entertainment to reach them and a minimizing of the use of the Word. If God has ordained that the Word and the Spirit are the only hope for these kids, then we should not avoid the means God has promised to bless.
Jim Elliff

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 诗篇 97

97
 神是最高的统治者
耶和华作王!愿地快乐!
愿众海岛欢喜!
密云和幽暗在他的四围;
公义和公平是他宝座的根基。
有烈火在他前头行,
烧灭他四围的敌人。
他的闪电光照世界,
大地看见便震动。
诸山见耶和华的面,
就是全地之主的面,便消化如蜡。
 
诸天表明他的公义;
万民看见他的荣耀。
愿一切事奉雕刻的偶像、
靠虚无之神自夸的,都蒙羞愧。
万神哪,你们都当拜他。
耶和华啊,锡安听见你的判断就欢喜;
犹大的城邑+也都快乐。
因为你—耶和华至高,超乎全地;
你被尊崇,远超万神之上。
 
10 你们爱耶和华的,都当恨恶罪恶;
他保护圣民的性命,
搭救他们脱离恶人的手。
11 散布亮光是为义人;
预备喜乐是为正直人。
12 你们义人当靠耶和华欢喜,
称谢他可记念的圣

+ 97:8 原文是女子