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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

John Ortberg

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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