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It never makes sense because there will never be a valid explanation for something that's invalid

Why We Love God We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19). Since loving God is the evidence that he loves you with electing love (Romans 8:28, etc.), the assurance that God loves you with electing love cannot be the ground of your love for him. Our love for him, which is the evidence of our election, is our spiritually apprehending the all-satisfying glory of this God. It is not first gratitude for a benefit received, but recognition and delight that to receive him would produce overwhelming gratitude. This recognition and delight is, or should be, according to Scripture, attended immediately with the assurance that he does in fact give himself to us for eternal enjoyment. The gospel call (Christ died for sinners; believe on him and you will be saved) is a call not first to believe that he died for your sins but that, because he is the kind of God who redeems at such a cost and with such wisdom and holiness, he is worthy of trust and he is a truly satisfying repose for all my longings. Believing (that is sensing, apprehending) this is then immediately attended with the confidence that we are saved and that he did die for us, since the promise of salvation is given to those who thus believe. The core of Christian Hedonism is thus at the very heart of what saving faith is and what it means to truly “receive” Christ, or to love God. Compare: “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). This may mean that God’s love enables our love for him through the incarnation and atonement and work of the Holy Spirit, not that our motive to love is first his making much of us. Or it may mean that in beholding and spiritually apprehending God to be the kind of God who loves sinners like us with such amazingly free grace and through such stunningly wise and sacrificial means of atonement, we are drawn out to delight in this God for who he is in himself, rather than taking the sentence to mean that we love him first because we find ourselves personally and particularly chosen by him. From “Note On Assurance That God Loves Us” copied from #solidjoys by #desiringgod #love #christdiedforus #salvation #attonment #godsjoy #godswill #godsplan #instarunners

First it puzzles. Did Christ have to cease from sin? No! “He committed no sin” (1 Peter 2:22). Then it clicks. When we arm ourselves with the thought that Christ suffered for us, we realize that we died with him. “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness” (1 Peter 2:24). When we die with him we cease to sin. It’s just like Romans 6. “We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. . . . So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:6–7, 11). Peter says, “Arm yourselves with this thought!” Paul says, “Consider yourselves dead!” The weapon for our vacation is a thought/consideration. When the temptations of Satan come — to lust, to steal, to lie, to covet, to envy, to retaliate, to put down, to fear — arm yourself with this thought: When my Lord suffered and died to free me from sin, I died to sin! When Satan says to you, Why deny yourself the pleasure of lust? Why deal with the mess you could avoid by lying? Why not go ahead and get that harmless luxury you covet? Why not seek justice by returning the same hurt you received? Answer him: The Son of God suffered (really suffered!) to deliver me from sinning. I cannot believe he suffered to make me miserable. Therefore, what he died to purchase must be more wonderful than the pleasures of sin. Since I trust him, my susceptibility to your allurements has shriveled up and died. Satan, be gone! My mouth doesn’t drool any more when I walk by your candy store. From “A Weapon Against Satan’s Summer Siege” copied & shared from #solidjoys by #desiringgod #devooftheday #newdaynewbeginning #bethechange #trustingodsplan #salvation #deadtosin #mustbekillingsin #christdiedforus #attonment #nailedit #christcompletedwork #grace#mercy #triathlon #newdaynewbeginning #instatriathlete #instarunners #training #trailrunning #halfmarathontraining #ironmangulfcoast #tridadio

Armana Reign - Into the Sky - Attonment

            The shower seemed to ease my troubled mind, as stress seemed to dissipate in the steam covered room, but still I knew.  While eating breakfast the thought crept up on me like a thief in the night, but one that I would not be akin to let escape so easily.  I had never been the type to be so vain as to notice how things would trouble me, but as to how it effected the souls and moral of the innocent people around me.  Thus, I finally realized what was agitating my senses, it was the plague of troubled souls and the burden that feeling left on my shoulders.  Instantly all the air began to flow from my lungs as I was gasping, trying to grasp an answer to an inevitable conundrum.  As we look to the future why does our past fade away, why do we forget the roots that have solidified our livelihood, has the abandonment of strong religious views affected mankind?