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“O God, I have tasted thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, “Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.” Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”
A.W. Tozer
“If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream….. I believe that much of the American churchgoing population, while not specifically swimming downstream, is slowly floating away from Christ. It isn’t a conscious choice, but it is nonetheless happening because little in their lives propels them toward Christ.”
Francis Chan, Crazy Love
I like to blend in, I don’t like to be different or draw attention to myself in public. But that’s something I need to be doing to show Christ’s love to this world. My actions should make people stop and wonder why I’m different from the world. And then the next step is key, it’s sharing with those people WHY I’m different – why there is an unnatural love for others in my soul, why I don’t do what others in the world do, and why my priorities are different.
Each and every day I should be able to answer the question “How did I show Christ’s love to someone in an obvious and impactful way today?”.
