More Ferguson

Heya Folks.

I finished the Sinclair Ferguson book, "A Heart for God", so I thought I would post some random snippets from the final Chapter to give y'all some food for thought, as well as a glimpse of what I have been thinking about and meditating on recently.

Here goes:

"Somewhere along the line, the idea of being a decisive and determined Christian has lost out in the fashion stakes. We have let the world squeeze us into its mold. For there, in the world, the idea of permanent commitment is rare indeed, either in employment or in marriage .... God calls us to promise ourselves to Him in a lifelong commitment of faithfulness and obedience."


"And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.' You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day." Deuteronomy 8:10-18


"It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face." Deuteronomy 7:7-10


A heart wholly satisfied with the Lord's provision keeps us fresh and eager to remember and serve Him . . . . The other essential cure for spiritual amnesia is a heart wholly submitted to the Lord's will.


The goal is God Himself
Not joy, nor peace;
Not even blessing,
But Himself, my God.
'Tis His to lead me there,
Not mine, but His--
At any cost, dear Lord,
By any road