tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.comments2024-02-17T22:22:55.784-06:00Jenny Hopejennyhopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17549550675852269948noreply@blogger.comBlogger5345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-21754886379673274392022-01-05T01:34:42.820-06:002022-01-05T01:34:42.820-06:00Consider the following, reader, while keeping in m...Consider the following, reader, while keeping in mind that I am not given over to any delusion that would cause me to have sympathy for that wretched creature. It is possible that He, our LORD, did not simply chuck Satan into the fire because we are not the only ones being taught, here.<br /><br />Despite the fact that the LORD is God, and there is nothing beyond Him; that He knew that Lucifer would eventually make the decision to betray Him, it stands to reason that He did love that particular cherub, at one time. The Word even talks about how beautiful he (Lucifer) was, prior to the betrayal. The Word is God, so these details are from Him.<br /><br />Is that to say that the LORD is a liar, and secretly still loves Satan? Certainly not. The LORD is good, and He can do no evil, nor can He bear any love for iniquity. Rather, it's possible that the love the LORD used to have for the highest of cherubim He created is a factor in His motivations. In other words, it's a very... very... very personal matter; the gravity of which we can't even begin to understand.<br /><br />Basically, what I'm saying is that simply casting the devil down as we do with a clump of lint from our pockets is not sufficient enough a punishment. To go immediately into the agony of separation from the LORD is not good enough. Remember, Lucifer was cast out and condemned (became Satan) because of unfathomable pride; pride so great that he ACTUALLY BELIEVED HE COULD CONTEND WITH GOD. If the LORD had put him where he belongs, right away, then he would spend eternity thinking there was hope in his hopeless endeavors.<br /><br />In other words, the LORD is giving him another chance. Not a chance to redeem himself, but another chance to do what he set out to do in the first place: Overthrow the Throne of God. The pain of realizing, again, that he's a failure tears down his pride. He'll even be allowed to try again at the end of the millennial reign of Christ Jesus, when he will fail, AGAIN, and then be put back in his proper punishment of hellfire. At this point, his punishment will be complete. His pride stripped from him, he will know that there was never any hope to accomplish what he set out to, and he will live with the knowledge of it in torment, forever and ever, without end. Amen.<br /><br />Of course, it's also possible that the agony of the anticipation that leads up to hellfire is even more agonizing than hellfire, itself, to some degree. Maybe this is his time to reflect on just how badly he screwed up, and see how ugly he has become; to know that his punishment is deserved, and inescapable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-14017999163285375532021-07-10T13:31:19.877-05:002021-07-10T13:31:19.877-05:00Always heard it as "scob your noggin"Always heard it as "scob your noggin" Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775441471543979500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-61290166566036531112019-05-25T06:56:18.772-05:002019-05-25T06:56:18.772-05:00It's an remarkable paragraph designed for all ...It's an remarkable paragraph designed for all the <br />web users; they will take advantage from it I am sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-52823700662946735572019-05-20T23:07:12.334-05:002019-05-20T23:07:12.334-05:00Keep this going please, great job!Keep this going please, great job!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-52213999654805641222019-05-19T01:21:49.890-05:002019-05-19T01:21:49.890-05:00Undeniably imagine that which you said. Your favou...Undeniably imagine that which you said. Your favourite <br />reason appeared to be on the web the simplest thing to take into accout of.<br />I say to you, I certainly get annoyed even as folks think about worries that they just do not know about.<br />You managed to hit the nail upon the highest as neatly <br />as defined out the whole thing with no need side-effects , other folks can take a signal.<br />Will probably be back to get more. ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-63525332510598542112019-05-07T04:53:53.277-05:002019-05-07T04:53:53.277-05:00This website was... how do I say it? Relevant!!
Fi...This website was... how do I say it? Relevant!!<br />Finally I've found something that helped me. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-8871093211212917502019-05-03T22:54:54.856-05:002019-05-03T22:54:54.856-05:00I like the helpful information you supply in your ...I like the helpful information you supply in your articles.<br />I'll bookmark your weblog and check once more here regularly.<br />I'm moderately certain I'll learn many new stuff right here!<br /><br />Good luck for the following!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-53685003371617789262019-04-14T04:21:28.384-05:002019-04-14T04:21:28.384-05:00My spouse and I absolutely love your blog and find...My spouse and I absolutely love your blog and find most <br />of your post's to be what precisely I'm looking for.<br />Do you offer guest writers to write content in your case?<br />I wouldn't mind composing a post or elaborating on most of the subjects you write regarding here.<br />Again, awesome website!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-9912118891663335632019-03-29T15:59:42.012-05:002019-03-29T15:59:42.012-05:00I always spent my half an hour to read this websit...I always spent my half an hour to read this website's poswts daily along with a <br />cuup of coffee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-28113985460979030632018-03-20T01:23:34.755-05:002018-03-20T01:23:34.755-05:00Re: indication- there is some element of truth to ...Re: indication- there is some element of truth to that but the turnover is <br />high.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-55744857909809183032016-01-01T00:49:13.589-06:002016-01-01T00:49:13.589-06:00Right on!😘Right on!😘Andreesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-63549837772650282492015-04-20T19:46:23.022-05:002015-04-20T19:46:23.022-05:00I have been looking for this dvd teaching for a lo...I have been looking for this dvd teaching for a long time. Is it possible that you would want to sell it or let me borrow for a season. I would so appreciate it.<br />Carol<br />arivers@rochester.rr.comcarolrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263505006906314764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-64075519618959259602014-04-10T21:58:06.978-05:002014-04-10T21:58:06.978-05:00"Life being the sum total of choices."
..."Life being the sum total of choices."<br /><br />I think that is a true statement. The choices I made as a teenager and young man have me where I am today. For some, that statement may seem like bad news, b/c if they made many bad choices years ago they may be in a bad way now. But, it really isn't bad news. Because, they can make another choice now and begin a different course. That choice is what you said at the end of your post - Repent. We may be the sum of our choices, but not all of our choices have been made yet. We can make more, starting this moment.<br /><br />Haven't read one of your posts in a while. You still write well! And hope all is going well.<br /><br />WBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-76929845679425531622014-03-08T01:01:39.447-06:002014-03-08T01:01:39.447-06:00Thanks for taking the time to blog and to share th...Thanks for taking the time to blog and to share the insights God has put in your heart Jenny. I think there is sooo....much that God has placed within you that does need to be shared....so I challenge you dear one, to press on and to be prepared to share the reason for the hope that is within you! Girl, I really hope and pray we will at some point have the opportunity to share face-to-face time with one another. I believe we share many similarities in our past that have catapulted us into the women of God that we are today. Jesus is my personal redeemer and the lover of my soul and The ONE true love of my life! In HIM, I live and breathe and find my meaning. All that I am or ever hope to be....lies in HIM....my sweet Jesus and lover of my soul!!!! Keep sharing Jenny....you may never know the one that God uses your life and words to touch, but touch they will....so press on friend...press on!!!!! Remember, to the faithful HE shows himself faithful!!!! Blessings to you!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10131557313958432014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-4467744998252143602013-11-11T22:52:48.279-06:002013-11-11T22:52:48.279-06:00Thank you my dear friend!!! I loved this!!! I was ...Thank you my dear friend!!! I loved this!!! I was living in some pretty deep sin and while I didn't changed overnight...I spent more time in his word and the more I delved into the word the less time I spent in sin... it took about 4 months, but he has pulled me out of that pit of destruction and I will NEVER return to that bondage. I refuse to ever put those chains on again! Love ya!Micheal41980https://www.blogger.com/profile/02601190660914547560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-65033676673764959232013-09-15T17:44:14.086-05:002013-09-15T17:44:14.086-05:00so crazy, I have a little sister named Stephanie, ...so crazy, I have a little sister named Stephanie, too. I have met several Jennifer/Stephanie combos over the years, something about that early 1970's..... My little sister is only 18 months younger, though.Jennifernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-45684092983179238682013-08-25T07:13:22.810-05:002013-08-25T07:13:22.810-05:00The Chiseling of Pain
The Master sets before us t...<br />The Chiseling of Pain<br /><br />The Master sets before us the goal of our being. He has a beautiful plan for each life. There is something definite for which he has made us, into which he would fashion us, and toward which all his guidance, education, and training will tend. This is not a world of chance— but it is our Father's world. All the experiences of our lives have their part in making us what Christ would have us become, in bringing out the possibilities that he sees in us when we first come to him.<br /><br />All life is a school. Our school books are not all in English print. Our lessons are set for us in many kinds of type, in different languages. The Bible is our great text book, and we are to use it daily and always. The lessons are not written out plainly for us on its pages. But life is our practice school. There we are to learn patience, joy, contentment, peace, gentleness. All the experiences of the passing days have their lessons in them. Sometimes we are alarmed by the disappointments, the sufferings, the sorrows— which we have to endure. But there really is no reason for alarm or dismay, however full of pain or seeming loss the days may be. God is in his world, and whatever the experiences may be, nothing is going wrong. The disappointments which seem to be working confusion in our hopes and plans— are God's appointments, yielding better things in the end than if our pleasant dreams had been realized. The sufferings and the sorrows of our lives have their part in the working out of the Master's vision for us.<br /><br />Peter owed a great deal to the hard things in his education. He paid a large price for his lessons— but not too large. It is worth while to endure all the sorrow, loss, and pain, just to learn to sing the one sweet song. No price in tears would have been too great to pay to be the author, for example, of the twenty third psalm, or "Rock of Ages, cleft for me." Think of the things Peter left— but was the price he paid too great? Let no one dread any suffering he may be called to endure, if thereby he becomes able to be a blessing to other lives, or leaves behind anything that will make blessings which shall enrich the earth, fruits which shall feed men's hunger.<br /><br />The sculptor, hewing at his marble and seeing the chips of stone flying about, said, in explanation, "While the marble wastes— the image grows." The stone unhewn cannot grow into living beauty. The The life which does not suffer, which endures no pain, cannot be fashioned into the likeness of Christ. Simon can become Peter only through chisel work. The marble must waste— that the image may grow. "The highest beauty is beauty of character, and the chiseling of pain completes it."<br /><br />Miller, J.R. (2012-12-29). The Beauty of Self-Control (Kindle Locations 1008-1027). . Kindle Edition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-49941295815459657212013-08-25T07:12:54.966-05:002013-08-25T07:12:54.966-05:00The Chiseling of Pain
The Master sets before us t...<br />The Chiseling of Pain<br /><br />The Master sets before us the goal of our being. He has a beautiful plan for each life. There is something definite for which he has made us, into which he would fashion us, and toward which all his guidance, education, and training will tend. This is not a world of chance— but it is our Father's world. All the experiences of our lives have their part in making us what Christ would have us become, in bringing out the possibilities that he sees in us when we first come to him.<br /><br />All life is a school. Our school books are not all in English print. Our lessons are set for us in many kinds of type, in different languages. The Bible is our great text book, and we are to use it daily and always. The lessons are not written out plainly for us on its pages. But life is our practice school. There we are to learn patience, joy, contentment, peace, gentleness. All the experiences of the passing days have their lessons in them. Sometimes we are alarmed by the disappointments, the sufferings, the sorrows— which we have to endure. But there really is no reason for alarm or dismay, however full of pain or seeming loss the days may be. God is in his world, and whatever the experiences may be, nothing is going wrong. The disappointments which seem to be working confusion in our hopes and plans— are God's appointments, yielding better things in the end than if our pleasant dreams had been realized. The sufferings and the sorrows of our lives have their part in the working out of the Master's vision for us.<br /><br />Peter owed a great deal to the hard things in his education. He paid a large price for his lessons— but not too large. It is worth while to endure all the sorrow, loss, and pain, just to learn to sing the one sweet song. No price in tears would have been too great to pay to be the author, for example, of the twenty third psalm, or "Rock of Ages, cleft for me." Think of the things Peter left— but was the price he paid too great? Let no one dread any suffering he may be called to endure, if thereby he becomes able to be a blessing to other lives, or leaves behind anything that will make blessings which shall enrich the earth, fruits which shall feed men's hunger.<br /><br />The sculptor, hewing at his marble and seeing the chips of stone flying about, said, in explanation, "While the marble wastes— the image grows." The stone unhewn cannot grow into living beauty. The The life which does not suffer, which endures no pain, cannot be fashioned into the likeness of Christ. Simon can become Peter only through chisel work. The marble must waste— that the image may grow. "The highest beauty is beauty of character, and the chiseling of pain completes it."<br /><br />Miller, J.R. (2012-12-29). The Beauty of Self-Control (Kindle Locations 1008-1027). . Kindle Edition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-79633202868747564352013-04-30T11:34:04.131-05:002013-04-30T11:34:04.131-05:00Great post!! Great reminder!!Great post!! Great reminder!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-6758665463849943642013-03-07T09:27:12.768-06:002013-03-07T09:27:12.768-06:00Do you mind if I quote a couple of your blog posts...Do you mind if I quote a couple of your blog posts as long as I provide credit <br />and sources returning to your website: http://www.blogger.<br />com/comment.g?blogID=5457998334674353035&postID=3546996512056258412.<br />I will aslo be sure to give you the appropriate anchor-text hyperlink using your website title: Blogger:<br />Jenny Hope. Please let me know if this is okay with you.<br /><br />With thanks<br /><br />Here is my web page ... <a href="http://sleepprincess.sosblogs.com" rel="nofollow">info</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-49365010469519430622013-02-26T16:23:24.818-06:002013-02-26T16:23:24.818-06:00Good thoughts.Good thoughts.Warren Baldwinhttp://www.warrenbaldwin.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-45300690359965237592012-11-23T22:24:16.400-06:002012-11-23T22:24:16.400-06:00appreciate your zeal and love. I read this CS Lew...appreciate your zeal and love. I read this CS Lewis quote in a RGB (really good book..)called "Relationships,A Mess Worth Making." I thought you would like it. Praying for you and yours today.<br /><br />"...we must not be surprised if we are in for a rough time. When a man turns to Christ and seems to be getting on pretty well (in the sense that some of his bad habits are now corrected), he often feels that it would now be natural if things went fairly smoothly. when troubles come along - illnesses, money troubles, new kinds of tempations - he is disappointed. These things, he feels, might have been necessary to rouse him and make him repent in his bad old days; but why now? Because God is forcing him on, or up, to a higher level: putting him in situations where he will have to be very much braver, or more patient, or more loving, than he ever dreamed of being before. It seems to us all unnecessary: but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us.<br /><br /><br />I find I must borrow yet another parable from George MacDonald. Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing up a wall here and a new wing there, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, creating courtyards. You thought you were going to be a decent little cottage. But he is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself." ~C.S. Lewis<br />(Mere Christianity) (which I've never read, am thinking it needs to go on my list...)Doulosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-67323300222904506102012-10-22T09:47:46.619-05:002012-10-22T09:47:46.619-05:00Amen and yes. I just listened to the October 14 se...Amen and yes. I just listened to the October 14 sermon Pastor John Piper gave on Christan hedonism. It resounds with your thoughts here. XXOO <br /><br />The LORD Bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; The LORD llift up his countenance on you And give you peace! Num. 6:26<br /><br />janelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-81806864091639357862012-09-04T06:13:29.887-05:002012-09-04T06:13:29.887-05:00Amen..Amen..Renhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03667894862776507328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5457998334674353035.post-33638798117494251272012-08-29T07:29:16.616-05:002012-08-29T07:29:16.616-05:00Praying for you!Praying for you!Renhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03667894862776507328noreply@blogger.com