“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
GENESIS 6-8
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.(6:9)
JOURNAL
God's desire is for us to be righteous. He forgives us and we have grace but his desire is for us to pursue him, obey him and live holy, righteous lives. I sometimes get complacent with the idea of grace. I sometimes mail it in because I know God will forgive me. Yet in really thinking about it...to do so is taking advantage of God, his love and his grace. To do so really hurts me. It wounds my own integrity and my passion for life. God is constant and his love never fails. To realize this and to not let it transform my life, my actions, my attitude, is ultimately to not really believe it.
I don't want to be a spoiled brat of the Kingdom. That's not who God desires for me to be either. I want to be the grateful son. That is humble, works hard, loves passionately and is always grateful. Help me Father to embrace this every moment of every day.
God's desire is for us to be righteous. He forgives us and we have grace but his desire is for us to pursue him, obey him and live holy, righteous lives. I sometimes get complacent with the idea of grace. I sometimes mail it in because I know God will forgive me. Yet in really thinking about it...to do so is taking advantage of God, his love and his grace. To do so really hurts me. It wounds my own integrity and my passion for life. God is constant and his love never fails. To realize this and to not let it transform my life, my actions, my attitude, is ultimately to not really believe it.
I don't want to be a spoiled brat of the Kingdom. That's not who God desires for me to be either. I want to be the grateful son. That is humble, works hard, loves passionately and is always grateful. Help me Father to embrace this every moment of every day.
I don't want to be a spoiled brat of the Kingdom. That's not who God desires for me to be either. I want to be the grateful son. That is humble, works hard, loves passionately and is always grateful. Help me Father to embrace this every moment of every day.
28Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
ISAIAH 40:28-31
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