Life’s Purpose for Righteous Men
What one calls interruptions are what life is composed of, whereas the “real life” is merely imaginary.
Now is the only time worth having for it is indeed the only time we have.
Wherever you are, be al there.
It may be said, and quite rightly, that everybody is exactly as righteous and holy as they in truth desire.
Have Christ rightly in your heart, and thereby turn Mondays, Tuesdays, and whatever other days, all into Sundays.
We must appropriate the tender mercy of God.
I am responsible for the kind of person that I am, no one else!
Life is a series of choices between the good and bad and the best, and it all depends on how we choose.
Daily devotionals impart doses of God’s perspective.
A person ought to live so that everyone— especially their family— knows that they are a Christian.
Family needs both quality AND quantity time.
True faith is a person’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
First things first.
Prioritize the day, so that you will not lose it, as life is too short to be plodding around in endless circles.
Without God, we cannot; without us, He will not.
We must trust as if it all depended on God, but must work as if it all depended on us.
Work breeds hundreds of virtues that idleness never knows.
Refuse to be averge.
Christians should be alleluias frommhead to foot.
Time is a nonrenewable gift from God.
The mind must not be distracted if we are to hear from God.
The main thing thast God wants in modern America is our ATTENTION.
God operates on His time schedule, not ours.
There can be no true victories without battles.
There can be no insurmountable peaks without valleys.
If you want the blessing, be prepared to bear the burden and fight the battle.
God has balanced privelidges with responsibilities, blessings with burdens, or else we would be like pampered children.
Do not merely possess faith; rather, be possessed by faith.
True faith is never alone, as it is invariably accompanied by expectation.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God.
The beginning of anxiety s the end of faith, whereas the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety.
The question is not whether we worship, but what we worship instead.
We must worship God in word and deed.
We must not work for God until we learn the joy of worshipping Him.
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
May the Lord make us willing to change when we are wrong, and easy to live with when we are right!
God has to shake us before using us, much like we do medecine bottles.
The quality of our decisions determine the quality of our lives.
No longer my own am I, but Yours instead.
Let me be employed by You, exalted for You, or brought low by You.
Let me have all things, or let me have nothing, it matters not, for in You, I am all things. So be it.
God is aiming at something we the saints cannot see, as God does not furnish us with a deatiled roadmap.
Any belief that does not control the one who holds it is no belief at all.
Where there is no works, there is no faith, according to Luther.
No one can drive me to believe or disbelive, says Luther.
Who we are today is because of the chices we made yesterday, and tomorrow we will be where our today took us; therefore, choose to change.
We are prone to want God to change our circumstances, but God wants to change our character.
People cannot make peace, but only enter into instead, as it has already been done, once for all.
We achieve greatness through humble service.
Either you can lift yourself up on earth and be humbled in Heaven, or vice versa; choose vice versa.
The Christian life presents you with challenges to keep you going and growing.
God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.
We are forever in the process of becoming.
Larger assignmets from God require longer periods of preparation by God.
Spiritual growth only lasts when the root grows with it, nourished by the Word.
We are to be charcacterized by unobtrusive obedience.
To be great in the Lord’s eyes is to serve others faithfully, lovingly, and humbly.
To be Chrostianized is to be sensitized.
Delve deeply into God’s Word.
Jesus calls us to be non-conformists.
God is not running an antique shop, but making all things new instead.
God does not reform; He restores.
Resolutely slam the door and lock it to any past sin.
The way to trouble God is to not go to Him at all.
Pray and let God worry, says Luther.
The quality of your spiritual life will be in direct proportion to the quality of your prayer life.
The Christian on their knees sees more than the scientist in an airplane.
Jesus never comes next; He is always first.
The Great Commission bids us to make disciples, and not merely believers.
Simply put, the past has always been the past, is the past, and will forever be the past; leave it there.
Accept the past, and courageously move on in life.
Accept the past, learn from it, and do not repeat it.
Look toward and forward to the future.
Lord, let me live, then, in the present, and not in the past.
Let me accept what was, give thanks for what is, and have faith in what shall be.
God forgets the past, so we should imitate Him.
Though products of our pasts, we are not prisoners of it.
God only gives counsel to the concerned ansd consecrated, not to the curios and careless.
The greatest tradgedy is not death, but rather it is life without purpose.
Wesley prayed often that God would not allow him to live to be useless.
God often leads us through the wilderness before He leads us into the promised land, so be patient.
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, being confident that God will provide its meaning at the conclusion.
The search for purpose in life is a journey, not a destination.
Take sensible risks in life.