Monday, August 26, 2013

Regeneration, transformation, saturation!

As a card maker and mixed media producer, I find myself on the hunt for interesting expressions and sayings. Putting a message out there for people to see and read is the best way to communicate our thoughts and feelings, profound or otherwise.
Because I'm a believer, I do a lot of reading of spiritual material, and the Bible as well. While I'm reading, many times a phrase, or even just one word will leap off the page, and touch me deeply. I really like it when this happens...I think it's my spirit being stirred.
This morning I read this phrase: "Regeneration is a birth in our spirit; transformation is a saturation in our soul." I love this. I love what it means. I love that I can experience it!
I would like to make a mixed media wall hanging with this quote. Have any ideas for the background?

Monday, September 5, 2011

The Psalms

We are going through the book of Psalms right now, and I am reading portions each day from a Life-Study of the Psalms, given by W. Lee, so a lot of what I will share in the coming days will be based on the book of Psalms from the Bible, and also from the Life-Study of the Psalms.

"Revelation 19:10 says that the spirit of the prophecy of the book of Revelation is the testimony of Jesus. Based upon this principle we can say that the spirit, the reality, the characteristic, of the divine revelation is the book of Psalms is Christ as the centrality and universality of the eternal economy of God. For this, He is firstly the embodiment of the Triune God, then the house, the habitation, of God (signified by the temple), and kingdom of God (signified by the city of jerusalem), and the Ruler of the entire earth from the house of God and in the kingdom of God. Thus, He is all in all in the entire universe....The only particular point of the divine revelation in the book of Psalms is that such a high revelation, even the highest peak of the divine revelation, is prophesied in the expressions of the sentiments of the ancient godly saints. So it is mixed with their comfort in sufferings and the cultivation of godliness, yet the center and the reality, the spirit, of this highest revelation is not the comfort in sufferings nor the cultivation of godliness. It is the Christ of God, who is all in all according to God's desire and for God's good pleasure." (Life-Study of Psalms) W. Lee

How marvelous that every book in the Bible, including the ones in the Old Testament, point us to Christ! Christ is everything! Christ is all in all! He is our top portion and enjoyment of every day.