Russell Tassett's Blog – July 2014 Archive (6)

Praise Jesus, for His love is everlasting! Jesus loves you more than you can ever imagine. His love for you is like a fountain that keeps flowing and welling up to eternal life (see Jn 4:14). His love for you is life-giving and life-changing (see Rv 7:17). His love wants to do something new in your life to bring you and others closer to Him. "See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers" (Is 43:19). His love…

Warm Thoughts are such simple pleasures such special joys....

A bride who changed the World:

  "Bride of Christ, I am speaking not only to you but to all Christians.You will be My bride...and it shall be through you that I will speak to the world. My spirit will dwell in you until your death."…

No Hard Hearts: "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him." (2 Chronicles 16:9)

The Greatness of God:Lord, God of the heavenly powers, what can be compared with You? You alone deserve the adoration of heaven and earth, for You alone are great, always great, great in everything that exists. You are great in all Your works, in the smallest no less than in the most striking, in the flowers of the field no less than in the stars of heaven. You are great in wisdom, power, justice, and goodness. Our great God, who can ever speak worthily of Your…

"The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light." Isaiah and Matthew knew the power of light shining in darkness, but for them, it wasn't the sun. It was the Word of God piercing a world in which power and greed seemed rampant, that Word becoming incarnate in Jesus, calling all to conversion.

I don't think it's an accident that Matthew recalls the words of Isaiah just before he records the call of the disciples. Perhaps light is what Peter, Andrew, James, and John saw when…