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| from Max Lucado's, It's Not About Me..
The words 'weight of glory' conjure up images of the ancient pan scale. Remember, two pans, one on either side of the needle. The weight of a purchase would be determined by placing weights on one side and the purchase on the other.
God does the same with your struggles. On one side he stacks all your burdens. Stack them up, and watch one side of the pan scale plummet.
Now witness God's response. Does he remove them? Eliminate the burdens? No, rather than take them, he offsets them. He places an eternal weight of glory on the other side. Endless joy. Measureless peace. An eternity of him. Watch what happens as he sets eternity on your scale.
Everything changes! The burdens lift. The heavy becomes light when weighed against eternity.
"We are not promised a life of ease and comfort. We are not promised
escape, rescue, tearless, pain-free living. We are guaranteed quite the
opposite. BUT, we are promised, beyond the shadow of a doubt, God's
presence, peace, joy.. His very self through it all. We are promised
the heavy will become light when weighed against eternity."
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| "Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." -Psalm 27:14
Living in an impatient, self-sufficient, and prideful society can really mess with my head. I clash with a desire to go with the flow, because it's "easier", and I can do and gain everything by my own accord. But my heart says that's not right, because I'm not designed to be independent.. but rather dependent on God and His flow. Don't be selfish, this isn't your life.. it's God's. He wants me to live patiently, with my eyes fixated on Him.. because He'll get me where I'm supposed to be when it's time to be there. And the "when" is important. Because "the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing." I think it's true..
I have a little over a month left of college. And for the first time in my life, I have no idea where I'm headed. Usually I need to have everything organized and planned out.. but finding a job, maybe grad school in a year or two.. it's all up in the air. I have an idea of what I want to do, of where I want to be.. but I know His plan is bigger, greater, and more meaningful. And although I feel some anxiousness over the uncertainty of my post-grad future, I also have this sense of peace inside.. because He is sovereign. And just so good.
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"Can someone look at you and say they see Jesus in your life?"
-P.Bruce
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| Something our speaker Pastor Byung brought up at this weekend's retreat..
God doesn't always answer our prayers and we wonder why.
But say that he does answer that prayer, and IF he does grant you that request, what are you going to do with it?
will you use his gifts to be selfish? or to be selfless?
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| I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I
never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to
accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just
happened to me without my ever seeking it.
-Audrey Hepburn
Concerning faith, I don't know who or what A.Hepburn believed in. But in reading her quote, I can't help but equate God to life and then wonder why we hesitate and resist to "just accept God unconditionally." We know he loves us unconditionally.. but do we always accept his love? Not really.. we usually take it for granted. And instead of accomplishing all the things we plan for ourselves, we end up going in circles, learning and re-learning the same lessons because we were too stubborn to admit that we can't do it alone. Or maybe we do achieve something.. but it lacks meaning and we feel empty because the world never fully satisfies.
Look at what he does for us, even when we don't ask for it or deserve it. I wonder what he'll accomplish with our lives when we stop resisting his calling and we really let him in.
"Everybody has to change, or they expire. Everybody has to
leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love
it again for all new reasons. I want to keep my soul fertile for the
changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when
it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the
person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things
out, not to read the same page recurrently."
-Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts | | |
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