Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Given our weaknesses, inabilities, and ignorance, our need for God should be obvious.
- Christians who say, “I’m lucky to be alive,” have the wrong message because it isn’t anything close to luck.
- I think I’m not missing anything, which causes me to overlook what I am missing.
- From the manager to the cross, Jesus’ surrender to the Father’s will revealed the way to eternal life with him.
- From the human perspective, God’s perfect plan can appear to be imperfect.
- Confidence in our future rests upon knowing God will use our efforts for good beyond anything we could do on our own.
- The most difficult price I must pay to know God’s truth is the sacrifice of all my misbeliefs.
- Salvation is a transformation process that brings death to self-serving desires and resurrection life in our spiritual being to become like Christ.
- Experience is the best teacher because what we learn is not easily forgotten.
- The process of eternal growth in God’s presence says there will always be more of his greatness to be experienced.
- God has all the right answers all the time, even when we don’t have all the right questions.
- In believing wrong information, we are sure to be misguided unless the Holy Spirit leads us out of error into the truth.
- Failure is never fatal unless we give up on God.
- Improvement is having less of everything I want that word in any way conflict with what God wants, so I can have more of everything he wants.
- Life is found in the abundance of helping others, not in how much we have for ourselves.
- What we don’t know or understand must be left with the Lord to guide us, or we subject ourselves to confusion and frustration.
- We’ll never understand God’s love until we’ve learned to share it.
- We need God’s help to let go of our regrets and worries about the future so we can enjoy his blessings today.
- The world’s ways look so right and good, we need the Holy Spirit to guide us to light and life.
- Being “born again” is nothing to boast about if we’ve not grown to walk with the Lord, desiring only to please him.
- Time may be short, but there is always time to be and do what God wants.
- If people knew how much God cares, they wouldn’t childishly think, when he doesn’t give them what they want, that he doesn’t love them.
- Listening to what others think is more difficult than telling what we think.
- We need the work of the Holy Spirit to cleanse us from the inside, because our self-righteousness isn’t good enough.
- The most important part of my prayers is how they change me to be more like Jesus.
- My surrender is the most crucial part of God’s transformation process, because without that, he cannot do what he wants to do with my life.