Lily Among the Thorns

I'm Blessy Jahne and I'm on a journey.
24 y/o. CHRIST FOLLOWER. Advocate. Worship Minister. Bibliophile. Vintage Lover. Thrift Shopper. Stellar Tatter.
BC, Canada

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

I have loved you with an everlasting love. (Jeremiah 31:3)

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

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Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

— Charles Spurgeon (via hisquietvoice)

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.

— Elisabeth Elliot (These Strange Ashes)

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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. ‘If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,’ Jesus said, ‘he will find his true self.’ A Christian woman’s true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate—-humble obedience—-but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

— Elisabeth Elliot (via thelastsinger)

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But here is the critical truth that all too many of us miss in our quest for true love: Even a beautiful God-scripted love story can never satisfy the way Jesus does. Even the most heroic and Christ-like man on earth can never fulfill the longings of our heart like the true Prince and Lover of our soul. And until we are able to truly make Him our first love, until we are willing to give up on our dream of an earthly love story for His sake, we will never know the fullness of Him who fills us all in all. We will always be looking to a mere man to meet the desires of our heart, rather than to the One who created us, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and who gave His very life’s blood to rescue us.

— Leslie Ludy (via juliaewing)