Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Salvation is about sinless living, not just avoiding Hell.
- “Love” is a euphemism for something we don’t know how to define, because the fullness of its meaning can only be understood as our relationship with the Lord intensifies.
- When people have nothing to hide, they can always tell the truth.
- Without God’s help, I’m not smart enough to know what needs to be done, let alone how to do it.
- My ignorance is a wide open door for God to provide answers—but only if I’m listening to him.
- There is no better pattern for perfect human behavior than what Jesus said and did when he walked on Earth.
- The most important answer to hear from God is to know that everything is going to be all right.
- The right kind of asking will ultimately produce what God wants—and that will satisfy what I want, better than having what I want.
- The more we fear, the more we make it true in our minds.
- Instead of telling God what I want, which he already knows, I need to ask what he wants, which I don’t always know.
- Heaven can be called home only when that’s where we belong.
- Fulfilling God’s vision is possible only after we have surrendered our vision and have embraced whatever he wants.
- Hunger is wonderful when it seeks the Lord for satisfaction.
- After recognizing a problem and discovering an answer, I still need God’s help to say and do exactly what God wants.
- God who is out of this world has a place for us that is out of this world.
- People have such a desperate need to be appreciated, they fret over what even their enemies think of them.
- God often whispers instead of shouting so we will focus our ears and listen.
- Before we receive forgiveness for our sin, we must recognize our wrong desires and repent, seeking not to be the person we have been.
- Writing is good if it works and bad if it doesn’t, but it can always be made better.
- When free from the desires of our self-serving flesh, we are free to enjoy the great spiritual thrill of pleasing the Lord.
- Life’s most important lesson teaches our need for God—if we’re willing to learn.
- God works with every person on Earth in a different way because each of us is a special creation, called to fulfill a unique purpose.
- As we surrender our lives to him, God can make miracles out of our messes.
- God deserves our very best, and with his help, doing our best is always better than anything we could do on our own.
- Temptation is the opportunity to believe and do something other than what you know is right.
- I most enjoy the most difficult, trying times of life, which is finishing—not the easy part, which is starting.