I even have culture in my anti-culture...

JI Packer digresses:

"The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby. We are modern people, and modern people, though they cherish great thoughts of themselves, have as a rule small thoughts of God. When the person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty

... We are poles apart from our evangelical forefathers at this point, even when we confess our faith in their words. When you start reading Luther, or Edwards, or Whitefield, though your doctrine may be theirs, you soon find yourself wondering whether you have any acquaintance at all with the mighty God whom they knew so intimately."

I have had some great conversations with some great reformed men this weekend, I also have had some challenging conversations at school with people who don't know God in the same way that I do, and that the scriptures show.

Here's the difference.

The men I respect I gain fellowship with in our cry to know God in His most Glorious. We are on our knees repenting of the fact that we are so sinful, and that He is so Great. This is how fellowship was supposed to function. The idea that we would come together and rip away our own glory in haste to give it to God, and then even repenting again. ANYTHING to give God more glory.

The other people I talk to become confused. They are confused because they have never even caught a glimpse of the Glory of God, and therefore have missed the mark for what they were created for. This is so sad. To question the simple fact that I will do anything to learn the truths of scripture, and give all the glory to God is amazing to me. If were not living for that, then we are living for ourselves, and Ive learned what a disappointment that is...

Run after God. Repent every hour. And above ALL: know that he is more abundant, more glorious, and more majestic than you could ever fathom. This is what makes Him triumphant over sin and this is what makes Him most Holy. Desire to know that, ask for that knowledge. It is a joy to know.

Amen.