Honey from the Rock

Abraham Kuyper

Description

Communion with the Lord is sweeter than honey.In his meditations, Abraham Kuyper reveals a side of himself unseen in his well--known theological writings. First published in 1880 and 1883 and never before translated in English, the devotions in Honey from the Rock were written for the nourishment and health of his soul. Rather than the public figure and theologian, we see a man thirsting and hungering for God's presence. Modern readers entering this sacred space will be spiritually renewed, restored, and replenished by the light of God's Word, before returning to our daily callings. James De Jong introduces these powerful devotions from Kuyper.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian theology
• Theology
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Lexham Press
• Date de parution: 28 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781683592358
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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ABRAHAM KUYPER
HONEY FROM THE ROCK
DAILY DEVOTIONS FROM YOUNG KUYPER
TRANSLATED BY
JAMES A. DE JONG
Honey From the Rock: Daily Devotions from Young Kuyper
Copyright 2018 Dutch Reformed Translation Society
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Original Dutch edition: Honig uit den Rotssteen , 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Wormser, 1880; Amsterdam & Pretoria: Höveker & Wormser, 1883) .
Print ISBN 9781683592341
Digital ISBN 9781683592358
Lexham Editorial Team: Claire Brubaker, Todd Hains, and Christy Callahan
Cover Design: Brittany Schrock
CONTENTS
Translator’s Preface
VOLUME I
1: Like a Weaned Child
2: The Foxes Have Holes
3: For He Is So Small
4: For All These Many Years
5: The Extension of Your Tranquility
6: Yet, Because He Is Persistent
7: Unmarked Graves
8: Proper Portions at Just the Right Time
9: Come to Bring Fire on the Earth
10: Set Free on the Sabbath
11: Wallets That Never Wear Out
12: Worse Sinners than All Other Galileans
13: The Poor and Needy!
14: A Cloud of Witnesses
15: Those Who Were Greedy
16: Unworthy Servants
17: Impossible with Men
18: Everything Fulfilled
19: The Hem of His Robe
20: All She Had to Live On
21: On the Peak of the Temple
22: Their Quiet Prayer
23: Instead of a Thistle a Myrtle
24: And the Children Gather Wood Together
25: A White Stone
26: A Pillar in the Temple
27: Not Filled with Sweet Wine
28: Wisdom Made Foolish
29: Beds and Cribs
30: Take Note of Him
31: Contrary to Sound Doctrine
32: Lovely Thoughts
33: Walk in the Light of Your Fire!
34: How the Gold Has Lost Its Luster!
35: Crumbs from the Table!
36: Anointed with New Oil
37: Take the Shoes off Your Feet
38: Uncircumcised of Heart
39: Go Out into the Main Roads
40: Lord, Teach Us How to Pray
41: The Fruit of Lips
42: Unify My Heart
43: Light Is Sown for the Righteous
44: You Who Carry the Lord’s Vessels
45: Children of the Resurrection
46: He Passed Away to No One’s Regret
47: And Sets on Fire the Wheel of Our Birth
48: Those Who Walk Uprightly
49: All the Intents of His Heart Are Only Evil
50: They Don’t Know What They Do
51: Untie the Knots of Wickedness
52: We Fumble along in the Middle of the Day
53: Your Iniquities Cause Division!
54: A Jeweled Crown Instead of Ashes
55: Like a Flower of the Field
56: Peace on Earth!
57: Refining Silver
58: This Is Why I Gave Them My Sabbaths
59: Changing Direction at His Command
60: I Will Pay Them Back in Their Bosom
61: He Himself Does Not Know How
62: The Person Who Trembles at My Word
63: My Food Is To Complete His Work
64: One Sows and Another Reaps
65: All Judgment Given to the Son
66: The Firstfruit of His Harvest
67: Because You Ate Some of this Bread
68: Distressed!
69: Wash Away the Old Yeast
70: Those Who Cannot Keep Their Souls Alive
71: We Have Been Raised with Him
72: Staying and Belonging
73: By One Man
74: Doing God’s Work
75: Ascending to Where He Was Before
76: A God Who Hides Himself
77: Definitely Blessed
78: The Sins of My Youth
79: You Set Me before Your Face Forever
80: You Do Not Support the Root, but the Root Supports You
81: I Am Against You
82: The Hands of Zalmunna
83: Two or Three Seen at the Top of the Highest Branch
84: Disloyal to the Generations of Your Children
85: Empty, Swept Clean, and Nicely Decorated
86: You Are like Gilead to Me, and like the Heights of Lebanon
87: Having Fallen Asleep
88: Even the Rebellious Live in Your Presence
89: Like a Lost Sheep
90: Forgiveness and the Fear of the Lord
91: Living by Faith
92: Very Slippery Places in the Dark
93: The Fruit of the Spirit
94: Two Baskets of Figs
95: Brokenhearted
96: Now These Three Remain
97: Needful That Stumbling Comes
98: They Thought They Would Receive More
99: A House of Prayer
100: Stay Awake
VOLUME II
1: Keeping Watch over Their Flock at Night
2: You Completely Transform His Illness
3: Ask about the Ancient Ways
4: From the Seeds to the Skin
5: Our Daily Bread
6: Your Children Have Forsaken Me
7: Living with Hostility toward the Lord
8: If You Abide in My Word
9: Heartless!
10: A Murderer from the Beginning
11: In the Spirit on the Lord’s Day
12: Like a Deaf Viper
13: That Grace Might Increase
14: And Scripture Can Never Be Broken
15: And He Was Troubled
16: He Lives to Make Intercession for Them
17: Draw Them All to Me
18: Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
19: The Heart Humbled by Hard Labor
20: Your Just Due!
21: Remember the Sabbath Day
22: The Lord Is Your Keeper!
23: Bearing the Weakness of the Weak!
24: The Gold Is Mine!
25: Your Healing Will Happen Quickly
26: Don’t Pray for These People!
27: Wherever the Spirit Went, They Went
28: How You Despise Your Brother
29: And I Also Am at Work
30: Because I Will Show You No Grace
31: With an Iron Point!
32: Taking Up One’s Cross
33: To Sift You like Wheat
34: In the Judgment Hall
35: Like a Green Olive Tree in God’s House
36: Upright in Heart
37: My Abundance
38: Until I Visit Him!
39: The Neck and Not the Face
40: I Shall Not Want
41: Come, Buy and Eat!
42: If We Say!
43: That We Have Fellowship with Him!
44: And Walk in Darkness!
45: We Lie and Do Not Do the Truth!
46: You Are Smelting My Inner Being!
47: The Law Will Go Out from Zion
48: Covered Up!
49: Then Your Peace Would Have Flowed like a River!
50: Don’t Withhold Discipline from a Child
51: A Worm and Not a Man
52: I Am Poured Out like Water
53: Eli, Eli, Lamma Sabachthani!
54: The Effort of His Soul
55: The Lord of Hosts
56: Renew a Steadfast Spirit in My Inmost Parts!
57: They Touch the Apple of His Eye!
58: A Clean Turban on His Head
59: Tongues as of Fire
60: He Himself Knew What Was in a Man
61: A God Who Shows His Wrath Every Day
62: Poured Undiluted!
63: Do Not Neglect the Work of Your Hands
64: This People Says, “The Time Has Not Yet Come”
65: May Love Be Multiplied to You
66: And the God of Peace Will Himself Sanctify You Completely
67: Get Behind Me, Satan!
68: It Covers All Things
69: Important People Are a Lie!
70: When You Fasted, Was It in Any Way for Me?
71: Who Is the Man Who Fears the Lord?
72: Even Christ Did Not Exalt Himself by Becoming a High Priest
73: Majestic like a Horse
74: Although They Were Dreadful Sheep!
75: So Then Neither He Who Plants nor He Who Waters Is Anything!
76: Unending Pain in My Heart!
77: I Will Spit You Out of My Mouth
78: Keren-Happuch
79: Ministering Daily
80: But I Am of the Flesh, Sold into Sin’s Bondage!
81: So That Glory May Dwell in Our Land
82: Lambs among Wolves
83: All That God Has Prepared
84: Our Redeemer from of Old Is Your Name!
85: You Priests Who Despise My Name
86: How Have We Despised Your Name?
87: Trouble and Sorrow
88: Maintaining That His Own Strength Is His God
89: Then All the Arrogant Will Be like Stubble
90: A Quiet Spirit That Is Precious to God
91: Be Lifted Up, You Everlasting Doors
92: Love Poured into Our Hearts through the Holy Spirit
93: By Their Behavior, without Words!
94: Filled with the Knowledge of His Will
95: Christ the Firstfruits
96: Not Only in Words, but Also with Power
97: After I Understood Myself
98: God Searches for What Has Been Driven Away!
99: Those Who Mourn in Zion!
100: An Ox Knows Its Owner!
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Subject Index
Scripture Index
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
Writing a weekly meditation on Sunday was sacrosanct for Abraham Kuyper ( 1837–1920 ). He tolerated no compromise of that commitment even during his harried years as prime minister of the Netherlands ( 1901–1905 ). While he often delayed or interrupted other writing projects, he never did so with respect to writing his weekly meditation. That pattern prevailed from the early 1870s until several days before his death in November 1920 . In fact, in the weeks just preceding the high Christian holidays, he consistently wrote two devotionals. The size of this body of material is enormous. It consists of over twenty-two hundred pieces.
Kuyper’s religious rigor in writing biblically based meditations must be understood as the profoundly spiritual experience it was for him. Sitting alone while quietly reflecting deeply, often imaginatively, on a biblical passage, was an act of communing with God. Such intimate fellowship with his Creator and Redeemer replenished his spirit. It fortified, invigorated, inspired, instructed, and directed him. These benefits of his precious time alone with the Lord flowed from his heart and soul through his gifted pen. They become ours through his meditations.

UNDERSTANDING KUYPER FULLY
One cannot understand Abraham Kuyper apart from his meditations. The more one delves into them, the better one comes to know Abraham Kuyper. Kuyper is famous for his initiatives in Christian journalism. He began a Christian daily newspaper in the early 1870s . He founded and edited an eight-page religious weekly. He was a rigorous advocate for government funding for Christian schools. His vision of a Christian scientific mind compelled him to establish a Christian university. Politics and justice were such important arenas needing faith-based guidance that he exchanged his pastoral office for a political one. Urbanization, industrialization, and colonialism all presented new challenges in a rapidly changing world order that begged for Christlike solutions. So he galvanized the Anti-Revolutionary Party into a passionately dedicated political movement. As a theological professor, he produced major theological works, man