January 10, 2016 · Psalm 119:16

Recuperate: Resting in God - Mark 1:29-39

“There's a delight that comes from God in this word. It's not only respectable, it is delectable, and there's delight, and there's wisdom, there's poetry, and there's philosophy, it's beauty and truth. I wrote my dissertation on this, the idea that God is truth, and God is beauty. And as we speak, we're meant to have our words be as beautiful and truthful as possible, because God is to be embodied in our words, and we have the perfect example in the Scriptures. It combines in a way that is doubly as powerful, because God's truth and God's be shy through it in a new way, and so I pray that we would echo the words of this author. I will not neglect the word. Not neglect God's word. It's one thing that actually drives me as a pastor. It's one of the reasons that I feel called to being a pastor. I pray that God's people will again make God's word their priority, that we will again subscribe to its authority. I envision a church where there are hundreds of people who are making daily reading and ingestion of the word just a regular part of their lives. I see it's learning to love and delight in the laws and to decrees and the precepts, and commands the statutes of Jesus. And I see as a result a people being restored, I see remediation through meditation, I see a recharging through reprogramming in God's word, and I believe it will save our life.”