Hello there!
My name’s Matt, and welcome to my blog, Romans 11:33. Let me tell you what this blog exists for.
Romans 11:33, unsurprisingly, reveals my intent.
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!”
Paul, the author of Romans, has just dived for several chapters into some fairly epic topics – predestination, election etc. etc. And he comes up from the depths and what he’s seen down there has blown his mind. It’s like he swam as hard as he could downwards, only to find that the ocean went deeper and deeper. He cannot describe the riches, wisdom and knowledge of God, his judgements and his ways – Paul’s picture of God simply could never be great enough!
The bible should blow our minds. I don’t like the thought of a neat little book that presents no challenges, no obstacles or tough questions – and thankfully we don’t have one. The further we dive into God’s word, the more it becomes apparent that we’ll never get to the bottom of it…in this life. Paul’s exclamation of praise and wonder is not a call to give up and throw in the towel, but to the contrary, it excites me more and more to spend more time and energy wrestling hard with God’s word.
And that is the purpose, I hope, of this blog. To reflect upon the Scriptures, let them speak to us, let them set the agenda, that our minds might be blown, our hearts rekindled with our first love, and our lives transformed more and more into the glorious image of Christ.
To begin, choose a passage from the list on the right, and read away. Then, why not click ’subscribe me!’ on the top right, to receive a daily part of the Word and a reflection on it sent straight to your email.
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Hope you can join me. To him be the glory for ever. Amen. (Romans 11:36)
Matt Dodd.
Welcome to the bloggers club. Look forward to it.
I just subscribed…
hey matt this is awesome! and i love the smatterings of ur shutterings! i was reading ur quotes, and one from Piper i wanna ask about, how is the greatest gift loving ur wife LESS by loving God more?
Thanks Rach,
For those interested in reading the whole poem;
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Poems/ByDate/1208_Love_Her_More_and_Love_Her_Less/
It’s great.
Matt
Hey Matt,
Loving your posts… keep it up!
Ren
The first thing that came to me upon seeing this site was that long, loud & low whistle of wonder that people usually exhibit upon casting their eyes across the Pyramids at Giza or somebody chugging down twenty-three cans of SARS in 5min or other things of the sort. I’m really impressed matt. I also looked at your photos. Woah. I saw this awesome painting which must have used that photo as a base because it had the same colours and everything. I was tempted to buy it at the time.
Looking forward to the first email.
I mean the photo around Tomaree Headland. Its a nice place. We go every year half across the bay at Hawk’s Nest and the other half at Shaol Bay.
This is really great Matt, thanks.
Penny
Hey Matt,
In preparing for my Colossians 4 talk at 7.15 this week, I’ve been convicted of my need to be more steadfast in prayer, and to be watchful in it with thanksgiving (Col 4:2). I’m thankful to God for you for setting this up, to allow me to do just that! Looking forward to getting the emails and prayer points. And I love that wordle function too…that’s cool.
Woo cha! Keep it going Matt, I never really understood these trickier sections of Romans before your blog.
I’m nearly through all the historical books in the Old Testament. It makes everything in the New Testament so much more clearer! I suppose an example of that recently was when you preached on Revelation about Jezebel, because I had read about her only recently! I’ve been mulling over authentic Christianity vs acceptance Christianity ever since. See ya Fri! Keep on chugging, the day is drawing nearer. XD