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

Throughout the millennia of human history, up until the past two decades or so, people took for granted that the differences between men and women were so obvious as to need no comment. They accepted the way things were. But our easy assumptions have been assailed and confused, we have lost our bearings in a fog of rhetoric about something called equality, so that I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to belabor to educated people what was once perfectly obvious to the simplest peasant.
Elisabeth Elliot

To worship God…is to “glory in His holy name” (Ps. 105:3), that is, to revel adoringly in who He is in His revealed character. But before we can glory in God’s name, we must know it; hence the propriety of the reading and preaching of the Word of God in public worship… These things are not an intrusion into worship; they form the necessary foundation of it. God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to Him. He must disclose to us who He is before we can offer Him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
John Stott

    • CXCV. Burdens.

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    GAL. vi. 5. “Every man shall bear his
    own burden.” GAL. vi. 2. “Bear ye one another’s burdens”
    Ps. xxv. 22. “Cast thy burden on the Lord.”

    THERE is a threefold cord not easily broken. There is no
    contradiction, not the slightest discordance in these texts.
    I. God has ordained that every one shall bear a burden.
    Some burdens are inseparable; deliverance from them is
    impossible.
    The burden of sorrow visits alike the palace and the hut
    Every man must bear that burden. Our responsibilities,
    our physical infirmities, the difficulties of work, we all must
    bear them; no one can carry them for us.
    II. There are loads we can help others to carry, and thus
    learn sympathy. There is a sense in which we can bear
    each other’s burdens and trials. No man is beyond the
    reach of human sympathy. Often a light lift, a mere
    touch, helps us over sorrow marvellously. If we get faint
    with discouragement, let us take hold of Christ and He
    will help us to carry our burden.
    III. The third text takes us from self-help and brotherly
    help up to the Divine help. God does not release us from
    performance of duty, but He will sustain us in doing it.
    The load will not crush us, God’s love will carry us and
    our burden too.
    The most overwhelming burden in God’s universe is sin.
    Jesus Christ bore that burden for us.
    T. L. Cuyler, D.D.

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