Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Dear God, Corner Me
Ligon Duncan's message at the T4G conference was so good. The crux of it was this: As with Elijah and Moses, God will deny you the dreams you want if he knows they will become idols that replace him as the treasure of your life. And he does it to give you a better treasure: himself. And it may come to pass that your dream of what would satisfy you in the world most (be it a ministry dream or not) will never be experienced by you simply because he wants to have your heart devoted to and satisfied in him above all. Moses never entered the promised land. Elijah never say Israel restored back to God. But they both, one day, stood on a mountain and saw Jesus when it was all over. And they most certainly were more satisfied in what God gave them than in what they wanted to give themselves.
5 Things for the Inner Life
I'm parking this here for now. I suspect a few more things in the coming days. But then again, I could be imagining it.
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