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The Sufficiency of Time

  Embracing finitude also means living by faith. I need to trust that God has given me enough time to do the things he has actually called me to do. This doesn’t mean that I have enough time to do all the things I want to do. Nor does it mean that there won’t be times when, through my own negligence and sin, I won’t have enough time. If I squander the time God has given me, then I won’t have all the time I need to do what I’m supposed to do. But I still need to trust God for time as much as for everything else. Rather than stressing out over all the things I don’t think I have time to do, I need to live by faith, trusting God to give me the grace to do what truly needs to be done. From:  Embracing Finitude
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Notes on the Need to Know Principle

The following is an answer Google Gemini gave per the Sufficiency and Clarity of Scripture. ~  You've hit on a very insightful parallel! The "need to know" principle in the military is indeed a helpful analogy for understanding John Frame's view on the clarity (perspicuity) and sufficiency of Scripture. Here's why your analogy works and how Frame would apply it: The "Need to Know" Principle in the Military: In the military, information is compartmentalized. A private doesn't need to know the grand strategic plan of a campaign; they need to know their specific orders, their role, and the information relevant to their immediate task. Their superiors are deliberately not telling them everything, not because the information isn't available or important, but because it's not necessary for that private's specific duties, and might even be a security risk if widely disseminated. How John Frame Applies this to Sufficiency and Clarity: Frame...

George Muller ~ Evangelistic story

I found this at:  Encouragement to Those with Unconverted Family and Friends  Reprinted from “The Autobiography of George Müller” pp. 135-138 For the encouragement of believers who are tried by having unconverted relatives and friends, I will relate the following circumstance which I know is true. Baron von Kamp, who lived in Prussia, had been a disciple of the Lord Jesus for many years. In the year 1806, great financial distress came upon many thousands of weavers in the area. They had no employment because the whole continent was in an unsettled state from the war. The baron believed that it was the will of the Lord to use his wealth to furnish these poor weavers with work in order to save them from complete ruin. There was not only no prospect of personal gain, but rather the certain prospect of immense loss. Nevertheless, he found employment for about six-thousand weavers. But the baron was not content with this. He also wanted to minister to the souls of these weavers. He...

Come Now, And Let Us Reason Together

  LINK:   Arguments In Prayer For The Orphan Work "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the  Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." ~ Is. 1:18 (KJV) The above link has an excerpt from   Müller, George. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller, where George  Müller pleads with God for help, by way of 11 arguments.

Fly By Faith

  And I determined to do something aircraft pilots must learn to do: fly by the instruments. When a pilot flies into a dark cloud and loses his points of reference, it becomes a dangerous thing for him to trust his physical perceptions. He might feel like he’s flying straight, when he is actually descending toward the ground. So he must learn to trust what the plane’s instruments are telling him, not what his thoughts and feelings are telling him. His life depends on it. From  https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/my-dark-night-of-the-soul 
3  For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,   4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, ... ~ 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 23  “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth  of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.  You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.  ~ Matthew 23:23 

Dementia

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/even-dementia-not-dark/ https://www.biblicalcounselingbooks.com/products/finding-grace-in-the-face-of-dementia  READ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/some-thoughts-on-dementia-and-the-gospel/