“The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die Martyrs, but Christ was born a Martyr… His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas-day and his Good Friday, are but the evening and morning of one and the same day.”
—John Donne, Christmas sermonFriday, December 25, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Son of God became Man that Men May Become Sons of God
Having become with us the Son of Man,
He has made us with himself sons of God.
By his own descent to the earth
He has prepared our ascent to heaven.
Having received our mortality,
He has bestowed on us his immortality.
Having undertaken our weakness,
He has made us strong in his strength.
Having submitted to our poverty,
He has transferred to us his riches.
Having taken upon himself the burden of unrighteousness
With which we were oppressed,
He has clothed us with his righteousness.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
God in Heaven OR Heaven in God?
“The Scriptures constantly teach that man’s only true happiness is in God, and that his full happiness in God cannot be attained in this life, but that believing men have that happiness assured to them in the life to come. Commenting on John 14:6, Godet says, ‘Jesus here substitutes the Father for the Father’s house. For it is not in heaven that we are to find God, but in God that we are to find heaven.’”
Alexander Whyte, An Exposition on the Shorter Catechism, page 137.
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