Here and Now

I do enough. Why don't other people do some more than they do? Why can't you do as much as I do? I deserve a break. Why do I have to do everything? No, I am not just complaining today.  I am listing some of the things that we all think sometimes.  Even when it comes to serving God.  And I am not talking just what we do in church, or just what we do as "ministry", though we know we've all thought these things a time or two in those cases.  I am talking about the servant is not above his Master, whoever would be great must serve, good and faithful, big picture, this is how I live my life as a Christian kind of serving. I am talking everything from the "that guy just cut me off and gave me the one finger salute but I am not going to get angry because I am a Christian" kind of stuff to the "I am being mocked for my faith and horribly insulted and my reputation is being hurt but I am going to love this person because I am a Christian" ki

". . . men sure of God, sure of his will, sure of the absolute duty to act in his sight and for his approval.  Nothing else mattered by comparison.  Consequences were of no account.  Obedience alone held the secret of freedom, courage, peace, power, happiness and salvation." The Puritans, as described by F. J. Powicke "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." John Locke "A Christian is not a person who has made a new start in life, but a person who has received a new life to start with." John Blanchard "God...will never be comfortably predictable.  If we rest in God's care only when we understand just what He is doing, there will be many times and places where we won't rest in His care." Paul David Tripp