"Many people find that the dilemma of desire is too much to live with, and so they abandon, they disown their desire. Somehow we believe that we can get on without it. We are mistaken." -John Eldredge The Journey of Desire
"Christianity has come to the point where we believe that there is no higher aspiration for the human soul than to be nice. We are producing a generation of men and women whose greatest virtue is that they don't offend anyone. Then we wonder why there is not more passion for Christ. How can we hunger and thirst after righteousness if we have ceased hungering and thirsting altogether? As C.S. Lewis said, "We castrate the gelding and bid him be fruitful." -John Eldredge The Journey of Desire
a thought occurred to me this morning after posting these quotes. i was reading in Isaiah 53 and i thought this. Jesus was the Son of God. A man on this earth who never did one thing wrong, not one thing and it was in God's will that He be tortured and killed for us. He was killed for us and didn't complain about it. what??!! I think on the times in my life when things aren't exactly as I would wish them to be and how I twist and moan in my prayers to Him at those times. "Why can't it be this way or that way? Why does this have to suck so much?" i say to Him. How pathetic is it for me to be upset by the things that happen to us as we walk here. I need to quit my whining and praise Him for how much he keeps me from through my walk and relationship with Him. Isaiah 53:7 says "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was lead like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." Jesus Christ came here and did not one thing to displease His Lord, Master and Father and was crucified because of us. He didn't whine or complain - He made known to His father that it was a hard thing to do, but didn't run away. I need more of that trust, faith and obedience in my life. Alot more. I thank Him that He will give me all I can handle.
"Christianity has come to the point where we believe that there is no higher aspiration for the human soul than to be nice. We are producing a generation of men and women whose greatest virtue is that they don't offend anyone. Then we wonder why there is not more passion for Christ. How can we hunger and thirst after righteousness if we have ceased hungering and thirsting altogether? As C.S. Lewis said, "We castrate the gelding and bid him be fruitful." -John Eldredge The Journey of Desire
a thought occurred to me this morning after posting these quotes. i was reading in Isaiah 53 and i thought this. Jesus was the Son of God. A man on this earth who never did one thing wrong, not one thing and it was in God's will that He be tortured and killed for us. He was killed for us and didn't complain about it. what??!! I think on the times in my life when things aren't exactly as I would wish them to be and how I twist and moan in my prayers to Him at those times. "Why can't it be this way or that way? Why does this have to suck so much?" i say to Him. How pathetic is it for me to be upset by the things that happen to us as we walk here. I need to quit my whining and praise Him for how much he keeps me from through my walk and relationship with Him. Isaiah 53:7 says "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was lead like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." Jesus Christ came here and did not one thing to displease His Lord, Master and Father and was crucified because of us. He didn't whine or complain - He made known to His father that it was a hard thing to do, but didn't run away. I need more of that trust, faith and obedience in my life. Alot more. I thank Him that He will give me all I can handle.
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