God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Body to the soul: “O my soul, have we got together again after so long a separation? Have you come back to your old habitation, never more to leave? O joyful meeting! How unlike our present state is to what our condition was, when a separation was made between us at death! Now is our mourning turned into joy. The light and gladness sown before are now sprung up. Blessed be the day in which I was united to you, Soul, whose chief care was to get ‘Christ in us the hope of glory,’ and to make me a temple for his Holy Spirit. O blessed Soul, which in the time of our pilgrimage kept your eye to the land then afar off, but now near at hand! You took me into secret places, and there made me to bow these knees before the Lord, that I might bear a part in our humiliation before Him. And now is the time that I am lifted up. You employed this tongue in confessions, petitions and thanksgivings, which now on shall be employed in praising forevermore. You made these sometimes weeping eyes sow that seed of tears, now sprung up in joy that shall never end. I was happily beaten down by you and kept in subjection, while others pampered their flesh and made their bellies their gods, to their own destruction. But now I gloriously arise, to take my place in the mansions of glory, while they are dragged out of their graves to be cast into fiery flames. Now, my Soul, you shall complain no more of a sick and painful body, you shall be no more clogged up with weak and weary flesh. I shall now keep pace with you in the praises of our God forevermore.”
Your shrinking from this truth about hell is not due to your sympathy with people’s pain. It is due to your lack of sympathy with their pain. God is the one who is sympathetic. He is the one who gave His only begotten Son to rescue us from this misery and to inform us insistently, dogmatically, and compassionately that we are in for an awful end if we persist in unbelief. Don’t say that you feel for people when you blunt the edge of the word of the Spirit. What have you ever done that shows that you truly feel for sinners’ eternal pain? Denying the truth of God’s Word about it certainly offers them no help whatsoever.
Place sugar, syrup and water in a saucepan and stir until the sugar is
dissolved. Cook to 240 degrees or until a drop in cold water will form a
soft ball. Add the butter and cook to 248 degrees when a drop in cold water
should make a hard ball. Crisp nuts and popcorn in a slow oven. Pour the
syrup lightly over the corn and nuts, turning the mass with a wooden spoon.
Grease hands with vegetable oil and when mixture cools enough to handle,
shape the corn into oblong corn cob forms. Wrap in green waxed paper,
twirling the paper at the tip end, then fringe fine (with scissors) like
corn silk.
Recipe by: Key Gourmet
Posted to recipelu-digest by James and Susan Kirkland <kirkland@gj.net> on
Feb 16, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. #A.W. Tozer”
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