prepositions matter, and this is why I like them:

Why are words so powerful? phrases, clauses, syntax, semantics... dictate the meaning of a pieced together set of words.

In particular, I have a keen interest in the preposition. Not through the preposition, or on the preposition, or in between the preposition--but IN the preposition. It amazes me that one word can create a sentence that has never before been written nor said. One word can bring you joy or stir up hate.

Even God is particular with his prepositions...because they make all the difference:

Colossians 1:13-14 (English Standard Version)
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Praise God that I have been saved FROM His wrath TOWARDS my sin. IN Christ, He accomplished atonement. He appeased God's anger towards my sin THROUGH Jesus Christ who was slain on my behalf. And anyone who believes in Him, will not perish, but have eternal life.

Read John 1. The WORD became flesh.

In Christ

It's been essential for me to remind myself of who I am in Christ lately. I am prone to forget who I am. This makes is all the more easier to continue in sin... to hold onto idols... to indulge the flesh.

Here is some Bible that's been helpful for me:

1 John 3:2-8
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning.

Galatians 5: 16--
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

He will save the needy from death

I have been made so aware of my pride. The very "sin that got Satan kicked out of heaven," Mark Driscoll likes to put it. What an awful thing, to think of myself as greater or more glorious than God. To look at accomplishments, physical attributes, or dispositions and truly count myself as better. What a slave I've been to my own glory.

But God is faithful, and has humbled me by revealing the reality of myself to me. His Word is like a mirror that reveals my depravity for what it truly is: awful and utterly sinful. My allegiance to myself is unsatisfying. God is good to show me my helplessness. To show me that without His Word and Spirit, I can indeed do nothing but sin. Jesus Christ is a savior, and offers grace to anyone. Won't you come and enjoy the salvation He gives from Sin and self?

He will take pity on the weak and the needy and save the needy from death. — Psalm 72:13