Love

God wants to speak to us more than we want to listen.

He is a God of love, and love longs to communicate.

 Linda Schubert

He asks one step, not the mountain

FOLLOW ME ONE STEP AT A TIME. That is all I require of you. In fact, that is the only way to move through this space/time world. You see huge mountains looming, and you start wondering how you’re going to scale those heights. Meanwhile, because you’re not looking where you’re going, you stumble on the easy path where I am leading you now. As I help you get back on your feet, you tell Me how worried you are about the cliffs up ahead. But you don’t know what will happen today, much less tomorrow. Our path may take an abrupt turn, leading you away from those mountains. There may be an easier way up the mountains that is visible from this distance. If I do lead you up the cliffs, I will equip you thoroughly for that strenuous climb. I will even give My angels charge over you, to preserve you in all your ways. 

Keep your mind on the present journey, enjoying My Presence. Walk by faith and not by sight, trusting Me to open up the way before you.

Do not wear yourself out with analyzing and planning.  Instead let thankfulness and trust be your guides through this day; they will keep you close to ME.

2 Corinthians 5:7 – “For we live by believing and not by seeing.”

from "Jesus Calling"

by Sarah Young

Sin's "why"

"Sin is what you do

when your heart is not

satisfied with God."

- John Piper

As in human relationships...

"I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' to a nation which did not call on My name.
I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts"

Isaiah 65:1-2

From a friend

THE ACHING OF THIS LIFE. WHAT IF?

Progress

"Beware of comparisons.

A sad person who doesn't attempt suicide any more

may be a greater triumph of grace than your joy."

- J. Piper

"Some bruises bleed years deep.

So the wounded trust slow.

- A. Voskamp

Choose Your Slavery: Freedom from One = Slave to Another

"God, in the end, gives people what they most want,
including freedom from Himself.
What could be more fair?"

-C.S. Lewis

John 8:31-37

"In Gethsemane

the holiest of all petitioners

prayed three times

that a certain cup

might pass from Him.

It did not."

-C.S. Lewis

"Before God can use

a man greatly,

He must first

wound him deeply."

-A.W. Tozer