Some Truths About God You Need to Know. In Short Paragraphs. - Bravester
Some beautiful quotes that will lead you to wonder about God.
Your God, every moment of every day, is wooing, drawing, calling out your new heart. He is not compelling you to try harder, strain more, prove your love more or even trust harder. Instead, He is drawing you to become daily more and more convinced of His love, your new identity and His power in you to mature you into who He has called you-Righteous. He will not be deterred by your failure, your laziness, your lack of interest, your scheming. He has already made up his mind about you and he will not fail in wooing you to that life he intended for you from before the world began. I know you think you don’t deserve such favor. He will overcome that also…Good luck stopping him. —John Lynch, one of the authors of The Cure, @John Lynch, Facebook, April 15, 2020
“When the incarnation happened—the word being made flesh—these scars were always going to happen. God is going to continue to pursue and love anyway because he is love.
“This is my hope in my broken-heartedness. These scars are not in a painting nor are they buried in the ground. These scars are seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. These scars are on the one who is interceding for me. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Romans 8:34. These scars kicked some holy butt in the fight of all the ages and gave us an Easter morning! The scars live so he can show us them so we can see him the best. (Luke 24:39-40.) And this is true. The Risen Christ remembers his suffering. He has the scars. The scars are the only man-made thing that is in heaven.” –Brenda Seefeldt Amodea, https://bravester.com/five-crucifixion-scars-pierced-to-the-heart/
“Praying over the passage of the washing of the feet (John 13:1-17), I was suddenly transported in faith into the Upper Room, where I took Judas’ place among the Twelve. The Servant, who had tied a towel round his waist, poured water from a pitcher into a copper basin and reached out to wash my feet (the dress and duty of a slave). Involuntarily I pulled my foot back. I couldn’t look at him. I had betrayed the vision, been unfaithful to my dream (and thus unfaithful to his plan for my life).
“Sensing my dismay, he placed his hand on my knee and said, ‘Brennan, do you know what these years together have meant to me? You were being held even when you didn’t believe I was holding you. I love you, my friend.’
“Tears rolled down my cheeks. ‘But Lord, my sins, my repeated failures, my weaknesses…’
“’I understand. Brennan, I expected more failure from you than you expected from yourself.’ He smiled. ‘And you always came back. Nothing pleases me as much as when you trust me, when you allow that my compassion is bigger than your sinfulness.’” –Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus, pp. 30-31
“Shame likes to keep you small and unseen. You know the decisions you’ve made. You know how you justified those decisions. You believe there is no way you are worthy to bring your problem to God or to ask God how to get out of this mess. These are the lies shame loves to tell you.
“This is who God is! He sees you. God’s movement towards us is redeeming the shame. Wherever shame is redeemed, you will see God’s fingerprint. I have met the truest version of God in the redemption of my pain.” –Brenda Seefeldt Amodea https://bravester.com/even-you-can-be-heard-by-the-king/
“I don’t think it’s meaningless, the story that says God sculpted us from clay. Of all the things He made, humankind was the first that He touched. The first breath we tasted was His exhale. I don’t think it’s meaningless that the first time humanity looked up at the eyes of God, His hands were dirty and He was close.
“Maybe we missed it—what God showed us when He first introduced Himself: that He will crawl into the dirt to be near us, and He will fill our lungs with air when we don’t know how to breathe.” –Nightbirde (Jane Kristen Marczewski) https://www.nightbirde.co/blog/2021/9/27/room-for-air
“I think God is awed by the one sheep which is why he pursues with love and grace. Not shame. Awe doesn’t have space for shame.
“God does not use shame to pursue us.
“God is not insecure that he needs to use shame to ‘power over’ us to call us back.
“You may think God does use shame because you struggle with shame. You feel responsible in your ruminating of all of the bad things you’ve done as well as your bad decisions. Shame feels responsible.
“Or you have a view of a judgey God who uses shame to keep you in line.
“Meanwhile, God never uses shame to pursue us. You can’t find it in the Bible.” –Brenda Seefeldt Amodea https://bravester.com/you-inspire-awe-in-god-too/
“God already knows every deep thing within us—even those things too deep for our own conscious minds to retrieve—yet he searches us anyway. His Spirit seeks though he knows what he will find. He is neither bored nor uninterested. His omniscience does not distract from his discovery.” –Beth Moore, Align: 31 Days of Prayer, Day 31
“Our world is full of unspeakable evil. And “everyone” (it sure feels like it) is speaking about it all of the time in every voice. This unspeakable evil keeps being heard and thusly permeates deep into our very being. Our souls are disturbed. We need the Psalms even more.
“It is in the reading of the Psalms (again) I discovered a new name for God. It is one that I’ve not heard of before. Psalms are full of names for God such as my Rock, my Protector, Good Shepherd. This name is not as comfy. I’ve yet to hear this name in a worship song.
“O Lord, the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth! Psalm 94:1
“This does not sound like a loving adoring name for God.
“It is the God my soul needs now. In this world of injustice that disturbs my soul.
“God is the one who avenges the unjust. This is all over the Bible. God does unleash vengeance out of love for me. Out of love for you. This is because of love.” –Brenda Seefeldt Amodea, https://bravester.com/i-am-loved-by-the-god-of-vengeance/
“Hebrews 1:3 says that God the Son is ‘upholding the universe by his word of power.’ The picture we are presented with is not that God set the world going like a clock and left it to its own workings. It is rather that he continuously holds the universe in the palm of his hand, that it exists because of his continuous creative power and will: if he were to stop exerting that upholding power, stop paying attention to every part of the universe, it would instantly cease to exist. In other words, for a Christian, the primary principle of reality is the personal character and will of God, not the impersonal laws of nature. Christian theology regards the laws of nature, which describe the normal course of events, as the normal way God upholds and orders the universe. Every single thing that happens is dependent on God’s upholding power. But God is not arbitrary; he has principles. And the laws of nature are the principles he applies to ensure a universe in which his creatures, including the sentient ones like humans, can live within a coherent environment that supports what he intends for them.” –Ian Hutchinson, Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? Pp. 152-153
Amazing thought: “Genesis 1:4 tells us that God separated the light and the dark. If dark and light had to be divided into distinct parts then at some point between God’s creation of light and the separation, light and darkness must’ve existed together, occupying the same place at the same time. No one else can cause light and dark to coexist in time and space.
“But if God can do it, then what could be impossible for Him?” –Brenda Seefeldt Amodea
“Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand. He made our taste buds, adrenaline, sex drives, and the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains. Likewise, our imaginations and our capacity for joy and exhilaration were made by the very God we accuse of being boring.” –Randy Alcorn, Heaven, p. 394
“Sometimes I picture God as a she because Momma God is intervening on my behalf. Don’t mess with Momma when it comes to her beloved. -–Brenda Seefeldt Amodea, https://bravester.com/i-love-this-momma-god-who-is-intervening-on-my-behalf/
