Perseverance through trial allows God to purge our character of that which is unworthy of entering His presence. Confidence in our own character gives us only a false hope that we’ll persevere to the end, but confidence in God’s character gives us hope with substance – faith.
This isn’t news, but is worth remembering… Peter Hallam commented on what consumes most of a developer’s time between the following: Design Code Write New Code Understand Existing Code Modify Existing…
I meet with a few men on Friday mornings for a bible study. We start bright and early (more early than bright perhaps), but my Fridays are blessed as a result. We’ve been studying 1 Peter, and today we hit 1 Peter 3:1-7, with the infamous discussion on wives being submissive to their husbands. We chatted about this being a continuation of the thought in 1 Peter 2 encouraging servants to submit to their masters and everyone submitting to governmental authority, but, for me, the most interesting portion of our conversation was where I least expected it.
It is no secret that the actual or perceived possibility of failure is critical to the enjoyment of success, but the concept of failure as a source of pleasure was new to me….
Ambrose Little has a thought-provoking article on Architects vs. Developers over at ASP Alliance. He follows up with some additional comments on his blog. Oh, and speaking of thought-provoking check…
