We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not
master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a
future not our own.
-- Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador
We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too
authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more
manageable.
-- Mark Finley
Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon
yield to that which is about us.
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God,
to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination
by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to
devote the will to the purpose of God.
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong,
historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest
person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
The poor man thought, "If I had a penny for every time I knew
the Lord blessed me I would be a millionaire." Then he
continued, "But if I had a penny for evertime the Lord actually
blessed me, I would be the richest man in the world...and I
believe I already am."
"To me, the mark of true spirituality is when I encounter a person who loves God and man and won’t let anything get in the way of his fellowship with either. " lovinggrace.org
Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times
He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the
storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.
So what to do? Two Things, it seems to me. At least two. Use up
each day. Fill it overflowing with good. Deliberately enjoy
it. Two, begin now. Mend a fractured friendship, mail an
overdue letter, repair a broken heart, lay aside a griveance,
act on a noble impulse. As we all know, "The night cometh".