I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
FRANCIS CHANDo you understand that it’s impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?
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The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
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God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Don’t fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
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When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
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