A New Purpose

It has been a long while since I last blogged about random thoughts, events, and emotions. After stopping for two years, a good brother of mine at church persuaded me to revive my blog. Which surprisingly, I eventually gave in to...eventually.

So here I am, staring anew.

After reactivating my blog, changing the background, fonts, and my entire blog, I finally found the core purpose of this whole blogging business. In these two short years, my outlook on life has completely changed. I've come to see that my God is the one and only God that has done the greatest, most indescribable deed in the entire existence of mankind - He's sent his one and only Son to die in the hands of his creation, for a ransom for all our sins for eternity. As simple as this sounds, and as often (authentic) Christians hear it, it tends to become bland and normalized to our ears. So in an effort to refocus my life on God's glory and my purpose in my short life, about these things, I shall blog.

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Here is something extremely insightful taken from Carm.org's facebook page:
Voddie Baucham answers the question,
If God is so powerful and so good, why do bad things happen?

"You're not asking the question properly...how on earth can a holy and righteous God know what I did, and thought, and said on yesterday, and not kill me in my sleep last night?...until you ask the question that way, you don't understand the issue. Until you ask the question properly, you believe the answer is out there. Until you ask the question that way, you believe that there are somehow some individuals who in and of themselves deserves something other than the wrath of Almighty God. Until you ask me the question that way, until you flip the script and and ask the question this way and say, 'Why is it that we are here today, why has He not consumed and devoured each and every one of us, why, why, oh God, does your judgment and your wrath carry?' When you ask it that way, you understand the issue. When you ask it the other way, you believe in the supremecy of man: 'How dare God not employ His power on behalf of almighty man?' You flip the question around, and you believe in the supremecy of Christ."

- Voddie Baucham
Message on "The Supremacy of Christ and Truth in a Postmodern World" given at the 2006 Desiring God National Conference.