Reposo I

'Reposo' is a Spanish word meaning 'rest'. Much like the 'selah' that is interjected into the Psalms to indicate a reflective pause, a casual (lazy) stroll through various quotes from various sources will be the final post of every month in an attempt to slow down, meditate, and enjoy. I invite you to take a deep breath along with me and ponder...

'The LORD sets prisoners free,
He gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down...'

'How good it is to sing praises to our GOD,
how pleasant and fitting to praise Him!'

'He spreads the snow like wool...
Who can withstand His icy blast?
He sends His word and melts them;
He stirs up His breezes and the waters flow.'

'For the LORD takes delight in His people...
Let the saints rejoice in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.'

'God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him' - John Piper

'Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny' - John Eldredge

'Courage...means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ...[A man] must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.' - G.K. Chesterton

'Thus God would have me grow - though the rain may seem disagreeable, it comes softly and builds me up, giving me what I lack to withstand yet heavier storms.' - Jim Elliot

'Father, let me be weak that I might lose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tensions of a grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling - how oft I have released grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless longing', the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary - as Christ's was opened - that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me here. He thought heaven - yea equality with God - not a thing to be clutched at...so let me release my grasp.' - Jim Elliot

'I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
Oh, praise the greatness of our GOD!
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong...'

'My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.' - Jesus Christ

'Be still, and know that I am God...'

'Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.'


Psalm 146:7-8; Psalm 147:1; Psalm 147:16-18; Psalm 149:4-5; 'Don't Waste Your Life'; Wild at Heart'; 'The Journals of Jim Elliot'; Deuteronomy 32:3-4; John 17:15-17; Psalm 46:10; Psalm 116:7