Some thoughts culled from my random file. About faith, love, life and relationship with God. Some have occurred to me in moments of quiet reflection, some in interaction with others. Some are aphoristic and avuncular. Many have been tweets on Twitter and updates on Facebook. For your edification, inspiration and/or motivation — or your money cheerfully refunded.
- Faith is not a static moment of belief but an ongoing conversation with God. What is God saying to you? What are you saying to God?
- God can handle our honesty. Even our anger and doubt. But He cannot do anything with our deceptions.
- Faith is not so much about what you believe as about Who you trust.
- God’s word causes things to be. It does not just describe reality, it creates it.
- Faith flows with the love of God because faith is relationship with God, who is love.
- I am, at any given time, a mixture of motives. Some noble, some not so much. I have my hands full minding my own heart.
- Jesus calls us to make disciples, not clones — He’s going to look different on you than on me.
- I would rather have one Christian who lives the faith well but cannot argue it than ten who can argue the faith well but do not live it.
- Faith in Christ is more than a doctrinal point concerning soteriology, it is a lived-out daily reality.
- Faith is trusting Christ with your life.
- What if everywhere we went, we prayed, “Kingdom of God, come into this place. Will of God, be done here in this place, just as in heaven”?
- You can find a lot of gory images on the internet — even on Facebook! — and it can easily overwhelm. Too much of it can even lead to despair. But there is one gory image that gives hope, and that is the image of Christ on the cross.
- In the end, heaven and earth must be joined together, because Jesus is truly God and truly man, and cannot be split in two.
- My eschatology is simple: The gospel will prevail and all the nations of the world will be discipled to become followers of King Jesus the Messiah.
- Pharaoh needed to let the children of Israel go, but the children of Israel also needed to let Egypt go.
- God has no self-appointed, self-anointed gatekeepers.
- A person’s socio-economic situation can color how he or she perceives Scripture. Someone on the bottom rungs of society might read certain passages differently than someone who is well-heeled. If we are going to take Scripture seriously, then, we must allow it to challenge our own socio-economic conditioning.
- This day, I expect to know God more.
- Isn’t it marvelous that, though God gives us all of Himself, we do not lose our own identity — we remain ourselves. You remain you and I remain me, but now the God-filled versions of you and me.
- The grace of God, through His power at work in me, is able to do far beyond all I can ask or think — and I’m not done asking and thinking.
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