Think over the energy you're throwing into life now - trying to be the best you can be, trying to get ahead, to be a better Christian, a better family member, a better you. Why work so hard? Why ask so often for God's blessing on your life?
If it's to have a nicer, happier life, that's not a bad goal. Especially since that's what heaven will be - an easier, nicer existance. If that were God's purpose for you right now, He would simply take you home to heaven, right? But here and now, biblical discipleship is never described as "nice" or "easy".
God wants to bless you. But not to make your life easy. He'll bless you because He's got a demanding job for you - a specific task, one that lays down rails to guide your major life decisions, to keep you from spinning your wheels in Christian selfl-improvement.
Go ahead: Break out of the Christian-culture idea that to join God's family is to become part of a nice, priviledged group. It's more like being born into a family business - everybody is naturally expected to take part in the Father's work.
- Bill Sterns, Catch the Vision! brochure for IFMA Frontier People's Committee, 1990.
Posted by Ruth at 3/24/2003
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