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who are we?

INTROVERTS

what do we want?

TO BE LEFT ALONE

when do we want it?

UNTIL WE’RE FINISHED SCREAMING INTO THE VOID AT 2A.M.

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Why Dental Floss Doesn’t Get Invited To Parties

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My life

Shout out to:

The people who don’t have a best friend because their friends already have best friends

The people who want to make friends and don’t know how

The people who have lots of friends but always feel lonely

The people who get left behind in a group

The people who are alone and nobody notices

The people who put their soul into a friendship and watched it fall apart

The people who are introverted and mistaken for being anti social

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“The Christian life is not adding Jesus Christ to one’s own way of life, but renouncing that personal way of life for His and being willing to pay whatever cost that may require.”

— John MacArthur

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Black holes - the space to keep all your secrets.

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Ugh. Birds.

reblog if you dont scream at 5am

trying to prove a point to birds

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-Episode 72, Well of Night

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-Episode 79, Lost in the Mail

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never underestimate the power of introversion

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R.C. Sproul

One of the greatest theologians of our era, Dr. R.C. Sproul has finished the race and has gone to be in our Lord’s presence.  R.C. Sproul has defended the truths of the Gospel, the holiness and sovereignty of God, the reverence of worship, and the distinctives of reformed theology for generations, even as the tempests of false doctrine battered the church from within and without.  He was a bright light guiding my path towards understanding the reformed faith and has illumined my understanding of who God is; for that I owe him much.

The Church now is as much in need as ever for the Holy Spirit to work through passionate and holy men to defend the faith and keep reforming the Church as it fights against the kingdom of satan, persecution, post-modernism, ecumenism, a broad range of heresies and heretics, and generally lukewarm churches.  May God send more theological giants to defend the faith and send His Spirit to awaken and reform hearts and to bring reprobates to salvation.

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Free will does exist. It’s just not how we normally understand it to be.

Everyone has free will. Everyone has the freedom to choose. But herein lies the problem: we are only free to act according to our nature.

Can God do anything? At first glimpse we’ll be automatically inclined to say yes. Of course God can do anything—He’s the Almighty. But can God lie? Can He commit sin? Can He do anything that is against His holy nature?

In the same manner, we cannot do anything that is not in our nature. The bad news is the Bible says we are by nature enemies of God and hostile to Him. We cannot submit to Him because of our sin. When faced with the choice between sin and God, what would a sinner be inclined to choose?

We do not make the choice for our salvation. The only reason we are saved today is not because we are smarter or more spiritual than the unsaved person, that we were able to grasp the truth of the Gospel and were redeemed. We are saved today because the Father was pleased to draw us to the Son���not by our works or will, but by His own pleasure, for His own glory.

You have no part to play in your salvation and the only thing you contribute to it is your sin. All men outside of Christ are under the wrath of God—Jesus Himself said this in John 3:36.

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From Jonathan Edwards:

Those who are in such extremity, commonly express a great sense of their exceeding wickedness, the multitude and aggravations of their actual sins; their dreadful pollution, enmity, and perverseness; their obstinacy and hardness of heart; a sense of their great guilt in the sight of God; and the dreadfulness of the punishment due to sin. Very often they have a lively idea of the horrible pit of eternal misery; and at the same time it appears to them that the great God who has them in his hands, is exceedingly angry, and his wrath appears amazingly terrible to them. God appears to them so much provoked, and his great wrath so increased; that they are apprehensive of great danger, and that he will not bear with them any longer; but will now forthwith cut them off, and send them down to the dreadful pit they have in view; at the same time seeing no refuge. They see more and more of the vanity of every thing they use to trust to, and with which they flattered themselves, till they are brought wholly to despair in all, and to see that they are at the disposal of the mere will of the God who is so angry with them. Very many, in the midst of their extremity, have been brought to an extraordinary sense of their fully deserving that wrath, and the destruction which was then before their eyes. They feared every moment, that it would be executed upon them; they have been greatly convinced that this would be altogether just, and that God is indeed absolutely sovereign.

Very often, some text of Scripture expressing God's sovereignty, has been set home upon their minds, whereby they have been calmed. They have been brought, as it were, to lie at God's feet; and after great agonies, a little before light has arisen, they have been composed and quiet, in submission to a just and sovereign God; but their bodily strength much spent. Sometimes their lives, to appearance, were almost gone; and then light has appeared, and a glorious Redeemer, with his wonderful, all-sufficient grace, has been represented to them often, in some sweet invitation of Scripture. Sometimes the light comes in suddenly, sometimes more gradually, filling their souls with love, admiration, joy, and selfabasement: drawing forth their hearts after the excellent lovely Redeemer, and longings to lie in the dust before him; and that others might behold, embrace, and be delivered by him. They had longings to live to his glory; but were sensible that they can do nothing of themselves, appearing vile in their own eyes, and having much jealousy over their own hearts. And all the appearances of a real change of heart have followed; and grace has acted, from time to time, after the same manner that is used to act in those that were converted formerly, with the like difficulties, temptations, buffetings, and comforts; excepting that in many, the light and comfort have been in higher degrees than ordinary.

- from The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God

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I know this all too well.

One rainy day when I was on my bicycle headed to class (right in front of the building I had my class in, in fact), I and another bicyclist got into an accident with a Jeep at a stop sign.  Both of us were fine, our bikes were fine, the Jeep stopped and we all agreed it was no big deal and were set to depart amicably and get to class...

Then a girl across the street informs us that she just called 9-1-1 and reported it as a hit and run - I guess not realizing that the other cyclist and I had told him not to worry about it - and had told her we needed to wait for them so they can come and take statements and file a report.

I was so pissed.  Of course the one fine example of a millennial being a good citizen had to come at the expense of my making it to class.

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Yes, and it’s unfortunate that people can’t distinguish between emotions and compassion.  I have a hard time with empathy, it’s nearly impossible for me to commiserate; further, I can find myself in situations with a genuine desire to help someone in poor circumstance, being compelled to help and not really feel “bad” or “sad” or what-have-you.

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(via https://open.spotify.com/track/4p2toGUjVzmzMjLSi1x0yz)

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It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.