In Part One we observed that unbelievers cannot see the beauty of God’s holiness—that which forms the beauty of His every attribute—and therefore seek to deny His existence or redefine His nature. We turn now to Jonathan Edwards for some examples of how spiritual sight of the beauty of holiness in God and divine things […]
Archives for January 2017
Spiritual Sight and Blindness (Part 1): Blind to What?
“I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I see.” With these beautiful words, John Newton speaks of the marvelous change in his soul, a change purchased by Christ and produced by the Holy Spirit when he turned to Christ for salvation. United to Christ by faith, Mr. Newton owned justification […]
We Depend on God’s Word and Words
Apart from God we can know nothing. He created mankind in His image, in personal relationship with Him, with the ability to know and understand Him through His personal presence and spoken, intelligible words. Boundless in power, God can make Himself known to His people any way He sees fit, and He chose to use […]
Holy Ones of the Highest One
The closer you get to anything or anyone, the more you see their defects. Everything looks better from a distance. The divine blindness given to women to take the hand of us men at the altar eventually wears off and they behold, in unadorned living color, an abundance of unflattering detail. And so it is […]