I once made a comment to a friend that appeared to have taken them aback. T his comment wasn't intended in any way to offend (I love this friend very much), but instead to point to a necessary and very important truth of core priority. It wasn't something that I just tossed out in passing or without my own understanding of the real potential power of its meaning in any one's life. I've personally lived to experience the fruit of it. Let me say first that my own efforts as a follower of Christ aren't perfect. I rise every day with new hope to be better than the day before with Jesus' help. I'm definitely a child of amazing grace, so I have no elevation above any others in the same position. But I've discovered that this life's difficulties are often intended to bear eternally profitable fruit in the lives of God's children. They're not meant to tear down, but to build up and to refine the character of the souls of the children that our H...
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke