This Sunday’s readings: Psalm 11

Reflections

Escape to God alone if you want to escape from Him. Escape by confessing and not by hiding. Tell Him ‘You are my shelter’ and so let the only love, which grants life, to grow inside you.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo

Fear is strange. It will convince us to guard ourselves from the people that only want to love us. We think we’re keeping ourselves safe by keeping ourselves from love. God didn’t make our hearts to be impenetrable nor has He commanded us to make fear our refuge.
~Jack Hill Perry, contemporary writer and hip-hop artist

We do not render to him the honor which is his due unless we are fully persuaded that his judgment seat is a sacred sanctuary for all who are in affliction and unrighteously oppressed.
~ John Calvin, 1509-1564, reformation leader on Psalm 11

To walk before God means so to walk as to have the thought of God’s presence and supervision constantly in mind, and to shape one’s conduct accordingly.
~ Geerhardus Vos, 1862-1949, Dutch-American Theologian

Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don’t really have a better idea.
~ Paul Kingsnorth, 1972- , English Writer

God’s commands are designed to guide you to life’s very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
~ Henry Blackaby, 1935- , founder of Blackaby Ministries

“Let Philip cease to rule the world.”
~ Martin Luther to his friend, Philip Melanchthon