| http://ubf.org
http://chicagoubf.org
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| "God gives us just enough to seek him, and never enough to fully find
him. To do more would inhibit our freedom, and our freedom is very dear
to God." --Ron Hansen
God's invisibility, our fluctuating feelings (of being right with him,
of worshiping him), our sinful nature -- all make us seek God as long
as we live.
One thing I keep forgetting: our goal is not a feeling that we get when
we worship God, but God himself. Our goal is not the peace we get when
being right with God as much as it is God himself. Our goal is not to
get back that fire we had when we first met Jesus. Jesus is our goal.
Seek him. Seek him. Seek him.
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| Say that you wake up one day with amnesia, and you have no idea where
you are, who you are, or whose house you're in, or who these people
around you are. It will bother you that you don't know what's going on,
and I'm sure your consuming desire won't be to make the most of that
day. Rather, you would not give yourself rest till you find out the
truth.
Isn't it strange, then, that we human beings, finding ourselves in a
world we don't know, not knowing where we came from, where we are
going, what our lives are all about--in essence, lost, just as we would
be if we woke up one day with amnesia--are consumed with making the
most of a life that we don't understand. What makes us think we're
making the most of it when we don't even understand the context in
which "most" is to be defined? We don't even know where we are. We
don't even know who we are.
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| Vine and Branch Relationship
I recently sent this out to a bunch of people via email. But a lot of
it came back to me. It's a chapter on vine and branch relationship with
Jesus, written by no other than my favorite author, Andrew Murray.
Click here to view it.
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