Posts Tagged ‘Immortality’

The Very Best

June 30th, 2010
22nd place ribbon for a race

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There’s a flip side to when we don’t settle.  We get the very best.

Think about it for a moment.  If we don’t take “second best” or maybe even “fifth best,” we get the very best.  Every time.  It’s like math – it just works out that way.

We fill our lives with “second best”

Any time we start trying to fill our lives, we end up getting short-changed.  Any time we grasp or pursue or try to take for ourselves, we lose out.  It’s just how it is because only God has the very best for us.

If we want God’s best, we need to take a look at our lives and see if we’re filling them with things other than God.  Other than his plans.  Ask ourselves, “Are we leaving space for God to move.”

Because if we’re not, we can’t have the very best.  We’re full of all the other stuff.

God has the very best for you.

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Hallelujah

July 15th, 2009

photo by zen

photo by zen

I’ve heard there was a secret chord
that David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, Do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor Fall, The major lift,
The baffled king composing, hallelujah

HallelujahLeonard Cohen

Here’s the deal – there’s no “secret chord” to please the Lord. There’s no way that anything we do of ourselves can please him. Rather, a heart turned towards him and submitted to Jesus of Nazareth pleases him.

And talk about a “major lift”! God, the creator of all, has made a way for us to be restored to fellowship with him. How cool is that?

John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

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