Maybe when it’s all said and done, this is why I follow Jesus—why I’m a Christian. Because Jesus came in the flesh, died and rose in the flesh, ascended in the flesh, and will return for us in the flesh. Because underneath so much of my trying, I’m a little boy whispering, “Will you hold me? I love it in your arms.
Desire is most powerful in the pure of heart.
It is not an overabundance of desire that leads us from God’s will, but a lack of it.
Where in your life do you find yourself getting angry that others have something you want? Let it incite desire in you.
There’s a difference between learning about God and getting to know God.
True self-acceptance is a key to change. A skewed self-acceptance refuses change.
The word ‘screen’ used to denote a partition. Today it’s where we search for two of our heart’s deepest needs.
The specific sins from which we’re saved can become holy embers from which His light burns brightest in our lives. How can men and women in darkness know the Savior He is unless they hear of the strong, dark giants from which He has saved us?
We long for one who sees, one for whom our condition matters not because it defines us, but because it distorts who He knows us to be. And One who can make what He sees true in our lives.
Into this, our story, steps Jesus. He is the author. And He is the plot twist.