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What are you shooting for? Is your life being lived myopically, with self-interest as the bottom line? Or do you have the grand purposes of God propel you? Choose carefully. Each of us gets one go-around.
Recent Entries
God? Who Needs Him?May 31, 2013
Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
Imago Dei
September 12, 2012
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
August 18, 2012
The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
July 23, 2012
To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
April 10, 2012
These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
February 11, 2012
What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Cheaper Chicken
October 29, 2008
Eugene Peterson in his book RUN WITH THE HORSES quotes an alchemist, one Erwin Chargaff.....
"What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you running away from your death? Or are you seeking greater wisdom, deeper piety?"
Peterson notes that "Jeremiah arouses passion for a full life. At the same time he firmly shuts the door against attempts to achieve it through self-promotion, self-gratification or self-improvement."
"His excellence comes from a life of faith, from being more interested in God than in self, and has almost nothing to do with comfort or esteem or achievements."
George Whitfield, that great "field evangelist" of the 1700's, experienced a call of God to the ministry at the age of 20. He shrank from it with dread, regarding the ministry as the awesome responsibility of standing to speak for God to a rebellious world. He cried out:
"O send me not, I cannot go!" But after days of struggling, in which the sweat "fell from his face like rain," and convinced that he could no longer resist the command of God, he submitted....
"What will become of me, I know not....I look for perpetual struggles and hope for...only a cross while on this side of eternity...the good of souls and the glory of God will be my only principle of action."
"I shall choose a voluntary poverty and give all I have to the poor. I give to him my soul and body to be disposed of and worn out in his labors as he shall think meet."
Dallamore volume 2, page 517
And some 30,000 sermons later he died having lived out that life. As a result, hundreds of thousands of souls in heaven will walk up to George Whitfield and thank him personally.
Isaiah overheard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" Isaiah 6:8
That same question still hangs in the air. Do you hear it? And if you do, just what is your response?
"What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you running away from your death? Or are you seeking greater wisdom, deeper piety?"
Peterson notes that "Jeremiah arouses passion for a full life. At the same time he firmly shuts the door against attempts to achieve it through self-promotion, self-gratification or self-improvement."
"His excellence comes from a life of faith, from being more interested in God than in self, and has almost nothing to do with comfort or esteem or achievements."
George Whitfield, that great "field evangelist" of the 1700's, experienced a call of God to the ministry at the age of 20. He shrank from it with dread, regarding the ministry as the awesome responsibility of standing to speak for God to a rebellious world. He cried out:
"O send me not, I cannot go!" But after days of struggling, in which the sweat "fell from his face like rain," and convinced that he could no longer resist the command of God, he submitted....
"What will become of me, I know not....I look for perpetual struggles and hope for...only a cross while on this side of eternity...the good of souls and the glory of God will be my only principle of action."
"I shall choose a voluntary poverty and give all I have to the poor. I give to him my soul and body to be disposed of and worn out in his labors as he shall think meet."
Dallamore volume 2, page 517
And some 30,000 sermons later he died having lived out that life. As a result, hundreds of thousands of souls in heaven will walk up to George Whitfield and thank him personally.
Isaiah overheard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" Isaiah 6:8
That same question still hangs in the air. Do you hear it? And if you do, just what is your response?
