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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

John Ortberg

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The church is in the hope business.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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