Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Since I am not in control, but God is, I am in no position to answer my own questions.
- When I am sure my imagination isn’t creating God’s voice, then I can know when I am really hearing him.
- Preaching to the choir can be a very good thing when we don’t know the right song to sing.
- If we’re looking for spiritual answers in the physical realm, we’ll never find what we’re looking for.
- Love is a many-splendored thing when we get to give what we have been given.
- When Jesus said there are none good but God, he was saying the only way we can be good is to be an expression of who he is.
- To love righteousness, we must hate our unrighteousness, which requires heart surgery.
- We do well to abhor religion as an empty form, void of power, but to embrace God’s reality with our whole being.
- God’s tests reveal whether our faith is as real as we believed it was.
- In knowing God’s truth, logic may recognize the power, but emotion decides to flip on the switch.
- Understanding the pattern of salvation is a far cry from the practice of salvation.
- Having exhausted all the things that don’t work and admitting our inability, we have a much better opportunity to discover what will work with God’s ability.
- The more we fear something, the more we make it true in our minds.
- I suffer writer’s block when I try to replicate God’s voice from the resources of my own mind.
- Hearing God goes far beyond the physical capacity of our ears to touch our spiritual sense of knowing.
- I thought I knew until I realized that I didn’t know as well as I thought I knew.
- Questions lead to discovery because they encourage desires to learn what we might need to know.
- Without an emotional choice, information won’t lead to transformation.
- If Job had seen God’s purpose in his suffering, his complaining would have turned to exuberant praise.
- Boasting about God’s gifts cannot be very smart, for that is what Satan did before his downfall.
- Since we can be sure God will have his way, it would be a very good idea not to be a hindrance to whatever he wants to do.
- If we think time is valuable, we would do well to spend it wisely, never wasting a drop.
- If we will allow the Lord to intervene in some small way, we can glimpse a small portion of how great he really is.
- Moses’ rod had limited value until it was used to fulfill God’s purpose.
- For our prayers to be effective, we need to ask for what God wants and not be content with asking merely what we think he wants.
- Couples marry to get, but those relationships won’t survive without sacrificial giving.