In all my years of pastoring, I have learned this lesson: a person’s spiritual maturity is not truly visible until they DON’T get their way. Then you see the person.
—@ErikReed
These last two years as a pastor I’ve tried to work out why the Christians most militant about causes tend to be the most spiritually passive. This is my attempt at an answer.
Roots & Wings: Striking Malchus : On the Perils of Prayerless Militancy https://t.co/XXyscLjA2l
I wonder
If there is any image more beautiful
Than the embrace of the one
Who trains, equips, releases you
And when you fail
Still embraces you
And reminds you that your value
Comes from who you are
Not what you did.
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“The child of God is pursued by divine goodness all his life and is never, ever able to escape it.”
— John Flavel (1627–1691)
You’ll be chased all week.
It’s difficult to genuinely love a Christ that you hardly know. Read, pray & worship with this distinct purpose to get to know him. Loving will follow.
We need the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit, not just His indwelling & omnipresence.
A prayer for this more.
"Come Holy Spirit, come wind, come river, come breath, come fire, come power, come helper, come counselor, come intercessor, come Divine love, come fill us afresh."