Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
BOB GOFFLiving 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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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Simply put: love does.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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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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