Regenerated...

Have been reading this book by John Piper called "Finally Alive" and it has been a blessing to my soul. It talks about what exactly happens to a person when he is regenerated or as it says in the bible "born again". It was such a good time for me to contemplate and think back and see how the Lord saved me, and what He saved me from. After many years of being a Christian we tend to forget about the Lord's saving grace.(Eph 2:4-5) It was humbling and it bought me down to my knees, thanking and praising our Lord for the new life that He has given me.

This book also talk about the qualities that a regenerated person has. In this day and age many call themselves as "born again" Christians but are truly not saved. In the initial chapters he speaks on John chapter 3 about how a person is born again.

The book also goes into various doctrines like, Justification, Sanctification & Glorification. I am truly being encouraged, edified and convicted reading this book and would recommend every Christian (those regenerated:) to read it too.

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm,
Deep in infathomable mines of never-failing skill,
He treasures up His bright designs, and works His sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break in blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding ev'ry hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flow'r.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, and scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter, and he will make it plain.
-William Cowper, 1774

The deceitfulness of deceit

We come across this word "deceit" so often in the Bible, so I thought "Wwhy not find out the dictionary meaning of this word?". It is interesting!


de⋅ceit 
 /dɪˈsit/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [di-seet] –noun

1. the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating: Once she exposed their deceit, no one ever trusted them again.

2. an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem.

3. the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness: a man full of deceit.

Origin: 1225–75; ME deceite < style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" Synonyms:1. deception, dissimulation. 1, 3. Deceit, guile, hypocrisy, duplicity, fraud, trickery refer either to practices designed to mislead or to the qualities that produce those practices.

Deceit is the quality that prompts intentional concealment or perversion of truth for the purpose of misleading: honest and without deceit.

The quality of guile leads to craftiness in the use of deceit: using guile and trickery to attain one's ends.

Hypocrisy is the pretense of possessing qualities of sincerity, goodness, devotion, etc.: It was sheer hypocrisy for him to go to church.

Duplicity is the form of deceitfulness that leads one to give two impressions, either or both of which may be false: the duplicity of a spy working for two governments.

Fraud refers usually to the practice of subtle deceit or duplicity by which one may derive benefit at another's expense: an advertiser convicted of fraud.

Trickery is the quality that leads to the use of tricks and habitual deception: notorious for his trickery in business deals.

Antonyms:3. honesty, sincerity.
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