Spiritual maturity is continuously learning to understand God’s truth, deciding how He wants me to apply it to my daily choices, then doing in faith what God wants me, (for my own and others’ wellbeing), to do with more consistency over time. Living this life brings joy.
"Only three things happen naturally in any organization: friction, confusion and under performance, everything else requires leadership."
- Peter Drucker
Isn’t He benevolent in showing us our trials as they direct us to our eternal purposes @rcsprouljr ? His ways really are higher. His thoughts really aren’t our thoughts. We are blind until He peels back the scales. All because He loves us so. Praise God- He delivers His people!
Just met one of hero’s from the 70s in hotel lobby in Fort Wayne. Dwight White one of the Steel Curtain from the 4 time Super Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers champions. Way cool.
If the prophet Isaiah were alive today, here's what he would say to God's people: "Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts: Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults." Isa 51:7
For the Christian, death is not some mystery to be lamented. It is an inevitable reality to be conquered by trusting Jesus, the one who broke its shackles and emerged forever from its grasp. Christ died for our sins and arose from the dead.
There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who think they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus.
- Richard Rohr