I've wrestled with the notion that I'm about to bring up - not because I have any conscious tendency to espouse it, but because the very attitude that it conveys presents the tempting opportunity to offend me. It tempts me because I have a jealousy for, and a reverence for my greatest love. At the same time, in bringing it up, I fear that there may be some who are offended by my pointing it out. Offense in all honesty is truly not my purpose. My true purpose is to call attention to something of supreme importance out of love and concern - to sharpen those to whom it may still apply - sharpening I once needed myself. I'll let a brother in Christ who's now waiting, resting peacefully in grace, set the table... "The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, ou...
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