God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.
We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.
Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.
Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.
Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.
We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.
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