You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
BOB GOFFI once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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