Unbreakable Joy: Lion & Lamb

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Lion & Lamb

Power incarnate & meekness

Divinity with chosen weakness
All is shrouded in mystery
This is the One who has purposed all history

Lamb soft and white as snow
Mildness with gentleness
And grace none may completely know
Never feeble yet clothed in lowliness

Lion-like in majesty
Entirely powerful with complete authority
All will tremble before this One
And bow at the feet of Him whom salvation has done

We remain with unspeakable adoration and awe
As children who adore lambs newly born
Yet we resound with trembling and fear
To see the Lamb who lives though was torn
Shock and awe grip all who draw near
At His feet all will do naught but fall
A mixture of speechlessness and delight
None enter His eternal dwelling but by His call
All are breath-taken and more than overwhelmed in His light

King of beasts and
From the humblest of places in the east
That infinite combination
Of Majesty and humility
All power for creation and
Devastating love for those born of His creativity

Minds quickly overwhelmed
To behold such traits combined
To lay aside the helm
And all that is refined
To be born in a manger
First breaths taken among beasts
And to come as a stranger
To gather strangers to eternal feasts

Golden mane adorning powerful frame
Prince above princes and King above kings
And standing as the Lamb that was slain
The One who came not to be served, but to ransom all things

He is the Lion and the Lamb
He is the great and eternal “I AM”

- A. B. Seal

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Noteworthy Quotes

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly so worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.
- George Mueller

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, a spiritual man is hard on himself and easy on others.
- A. W. Tozer

Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.
- Augustine

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
- Blaise Pascal

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
- Jim Elliot

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
- C. S. Lewis

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
- Augustine

The men of this world are children. Offer a child an apple or a bank note, and he will doubtless choose the apple.
- John Newton

In the end the heart longs not for any of God's good gifts, but for God Himself. To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul's final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
- John Piper

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Him, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- C.S. Lewis

It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him. He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance. He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end. So did the saints of old, the glorious company of the apostles, the Godly fellowship of the prophets and the believing members of the holy church in all generations. And so must we if we would follow in their train.
- A.W. Tozer

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
- John Calvin

God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.
- John Piper

God glorifies Himself toward the creature in two ways; by appearing to their understanding, and in communicating Himself to thief hearts and their rejoicing in and delighting in Him, and enjoying manifestations He makes of Himself. God is Glorified not only by His glories being seen, but by it’s being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. God made the world that he might communicate and the creature receive His glory, and that it might be received both by the mind and the heart. He that testifies His idea of God’s glory doesn’t glorify God so much as he that testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it.
- Jonathan Edwards