Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Childlike people accept discipline, but childish people insist on their own way.
- When people trust their ideologies or imaginations, they can miss God’s reality and never know it.
- The model prayer seeks total surrender to God’s will for all that is to be gained from that effort.
- We can be part of the family of God, which is unlike anything else that has ever been created in the heavenly realm.
- We should be dependent upon the Lord for everything, including our ability to do anything.
- Faith in hearing and believing God’s voice rises above hope to actually knowing the truth without physical evidence.
- Temptation leads us into doing what looks good but isn’t really for our good.
- We pray and see doctors about our physical pain, but our greatest need is spiritual transformation.
- We will struggle with God’s answers when they don’t agree with what we want to believe.
- Searching for truth, we will not do well at finding—unless we have God’s help to look in all the right places.
- Each retelling of a story deepens the life-changing experience.
- In our ignorance, we would be really smart not to doubt God—if we are smart enough not to doubt.
- Growth is crucial, because without it, we’re dying.
- Doing God’s will requires a change of appetite to please the Lord and detest any thought, feeling, or action that wouldn’t.
- If God could and doesn’t, then he must have a purpose in not doing what we think he should.
- Unless I can appreciate what others are thinking, what I’m thinking can’t matter to anyone but me.
- If can identify Satan’s temptations as being harmful, potentially fatal, we will deny each one.
- When feeling that our desires are not quite right, we can be sure that our actions aren’t quite right, either.
- Since I don’t fully understand me, I doubt that I can fully understand anything outside of me.
- God’s revelation alone is like a dictionary on the shelf, not benefiting anybody until it is read, understood, and applied.
- We must never make Satan’s mistake and try to steal God’s glory for ourselves.
- Joseph had dreams that appeared to be nightmares until after God’s purpose for all the tragedies had been revealed.
- If we had God’s perspective, we would never question his actions.
- The miracle we want will be different from what God does, because he knows what we don’t know.
- Without understanding God’s purpose, we need faith to know how our tragedies could be good.
- To understand who we are, why we are here, and what we are to do, we need to hear God’s voice because he’s the one who knows.