Comments on: Look And Wonder http://blogs.sovgracefairfax.org/five15/2006/11/07/look-and-wonder/ for the teens and parents of Sovereign Grace Church Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ashleigh http://blogs.sovgracefairfax.org/five15/2006/11/07/look-and-wonder/#comment-4988 Ashleigh Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:23:43 +0000 http://blogs.sovgracefairfax.org/five15/2006/11/07/look-and-wonder/#comment-4988 Recently, God has been giving me a greater wonder and gratefulness for my salvation through Jesus Christ. With beginning a new season of life, I talk to people everyday at college that are very aimless, depressed, and nearly hopeless. Just yesterday, after talking with someone at the cafeteria, I realized how grateful I was for the anchor & foundation that I have in The Bible & in Christ. I know that apart from God saving a wretched sinner like me, I would be absolutely NO different than every other person I meet at college. I have also been more thankful and amazed that I have the hope of heaven. This place...this earth, is not my home. I have been saved for a PLACE—Heaven—and for a PERSON—Jesus Christ. I am so glad I have an "anchor beyond the veil." "What joy, what peace, what love!" Recently,

God has been giving me a greater wonder and gratefulness for my salvation through Jesus Christ.
With beginning a new season of life, I talk to people everyday at college that are very aimless, depressed, and nearly hopeless.
Just yesterday, after talking with someone at the cafeteria, I realized how grateful I was for the anchor & foundation that I have in The Bible & in Christ.

I know that apart from God saving a wretched sinner like me, I would be absolutely NO different than every other person I meet at college.

I have also been more thankful and amazed that I have the hope of heaven. This place…this earth, is not my home. I have been saved for a PLACE—Heaven—and for a PERSON—Jesus Christ. I am so glad I have an “anchor beyond the veil.”

“What joy, what peace, what love!”

]]> By: Mrs. Sawyer http://blogs.sovgracefairfax.org/five15/2006/11/07/look-and-wonder/#comment-4986 Mrs. Sawyer Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:45:04 +0000 http://blogs.sovgracefairfax.org/five15/2006/11/07/look-and-wonder/#comment-4986 I so appreciated this post, Steve. It was particularly sweet for me because on Monday I celebrated my 30th anniversary of becoming a Christian! Throughout the day I thought about how God saved me from my wretched life of sin, and about how He continues to reveal His grace to me. Nothing I have learned in these 30 years is more profound than the fact that the Cross is the most beautiful and terrible sight in the world. "Thus while the Cross my sins displays for all the world to view Such is the mystery of grace, it seals my pardon too With pleasing grief and mournful joy my spirit now is filled That I should such a life destroy, yet live by Him I killed" ~John Newton Thanks for pointing us to the Cross once again! Mrs. Sawyer I so appreciated this post, Steve. It was particularly sweet for me because on Monday I celebrated my 30th anniversary of becoming a Christian! Throughout the day I thought about how God saved me from my wretched life of sin, and about how He continues to reveal His grace to me. Nothing I have learned in these 30 years is more profound than the fact that the Cross is the most beautiful and terrible sight in the world.

“Thus while the Cross my sins displays for all the world to view
Such is the mystery of grace, it seals my pardon too
With pleasing grief and mournful joy my spirit now is filled
That I should such a life destroy, yet live by Him I killed”
~John Newton

Thanks for pointing us to the Cross once again!

Mrs. Sawyer

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