Greatness
is never a product of giftedness. It is
always a product of faith.
I like that one. It takes the pressure off you while allowing
you to be obedient.
Your
ministry is the means God uses to sanctify you.
Gotta admit, there have been some days when
it has felt like I have been getting more sanctified than I could handle. Wouldn’t trade this ministry thing,
though. Getting to see people’s lives
changed is amazing.
You
gotta know what it feels like to believe God when there is no emotional
affirmation in your heart.
Ah.
This is the tough one. I can’t
count the number of days when emotional affirmation – encouragement of any kind
– would have been so welcome.
The
problem with success is it seduces you into self-reliance.
I guess that is true when there are
repeated successes. Not that I have had
repeated successes.
And my personal favorite …
90%
of the stuff you go through is designed to make you smell like Jesus.
That is one image I never thought to apply
to my relationship with Jesus … smell. But,
hey, if you ever see me and something doesn’t smell right to you, please let me
know … on so many levels.
Genesis 8:20-22 says, “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean
animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said
in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every
inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy
all living creatures, as I have done. As
long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, day and night will never cease.’”
Father, it’s kind of hard to see life with
you as a deodorant, but I really do want to be so like you that people can
smell it. Amen.
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