With all of that being said, I am trying to get better with blogging (not just ink). Looking through some of the old posts on this blog, I see that I tried starting a book study once before. And like many things I start, I failed to finish. Hopefully that is not the case with this book.
The book I would like to share with you now is Devern Fromke's Ultimate Intention. Currently, we are going through this study at church and while that is great in it's own dimension, I need to also go through it myself. We (I feel like Paul saying "I am chief sinner, number one...") as Christians have become so lazy in our own personal walk with God, that we just get fat on what the preacher tells us. We literally are babies. We let them feed us twice (if you even go twice) a week at church and we starve in between because we don't do it ourselves. Wow...here comes more to my rant (and I am talking to myself here, folks)...we fill up on junk food for the soul instead of His wholesome goodness. Confession: I can sit on Pinterest for hours and never even pick my Bible up....is it just about reading more, worshiping more, or praying more? Of course not. We know that answer...ahhh...I digress....
Back to the book. Ultimate Intention. This book is from the 60's...but the message still rings true today. If you're interested you can find the book here and I encourage you to go to my church's website and listen in.
Before I start chapter one, I wanted to leave you with a couple of excerpts from the book...for me, this first one alone brings so much relevancy to the things at are happening in our world today....it's seriously a wake up call because burying our heads will not do anything...
"Throughout the world today there is the echo and re-echo of revolution. Surely this is evidence of the crisis hour in which we live. A new day is on the horizon. We are now in the night- a time of political, social, religious and philosophical shaking. Everything that can be shaken is being shaken. We can expect this shaking to increase in tempo and momentum until only that which is unshakable remains. But we need not be alarmed, for God has determined to build anew on His SURE FOUNDATION-a foundation which cannot be shaken."
"The author considers these critical questions:
- In the beginning, before God created Adam (mankind), what was His original purpose and plan for him?
- What could have happened in the Garden of Eden if Adam had not sinned and God's redemptive plan had not become necessary?
- We know that when God created Adam he received natural life, but how did God plan for Adam to receive Divine (uncreated life)? What is the difference between God's creating and begetting work?
- it is evident that God has given the Cross a central place in His redemptive working; what is the difference between the work of the Cross and the way of the Cross?
- Since God in the fullness of time, will put on display His Divine masterpiece before all the universe, how can we fully cooperate with him if we do not understand His Ultimate Intention?"
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