Your post brought to mind these words from Fleming Rutledge. I have made them part of my morning prayers.
When we are tempted to go along with whatever the corrupt world is doing, we can say to ourselves, "I am a creation of the new covenant. God has written his commandments in my heart. I am not the same person that I was. I have been planted by the stream of living water. In the time of drought, I will still be fed by the unconquerable purpose of God."
Every Follower of Jesus of Nazareth who lives by this promise is a sign planted by God in a world that groans for redemption.
The truest knowledge we could ever know is how desperately we need God. The sign of a Sage isn’t that He knows everything but that he knows how much he needs God. As I’ve grown older, & hopefully wiser, I spend more time meditating on how incomplete I am apart from Him.
Your post brought to mind these words from Fleming Rutledge. I have made them part of my morning prayers.
When we are tempted to go along with whatever the corrupt world is doing, we can say to ourselves, "I am a creation of the new covenant. God has written his commandments in my heart. I am not the same person that I was. I have been planted by the stream of living water. In the time of drought, I will still be fed by the unconquerable purpose of God."
Every Follower of Jesus of Nazareth who lives by this promise is a sign planted by God in a world that groans for redemption.
The truest knowledge we could ever know is how desperately we need God. The sign of a Sage isn’t that He knows everything but that he knows how much he needs God. As I’ve grown older, & hopefully wiser, I spend more time meditating on how incomplete I am apart from Him.