In my dreams, I can defy gravity, floating above buildings like a hot-air balloon, able to go where I please and do whatever I imagine. When I’m awake, I depend upon the Lord to lift me up and take me to wherever he wants me to go.
Your Word is a lamp to keep my feet from stumbling, a light that shines before me to show the way you want me to go.
— Psalm 119:105
Ten Thoughts to Ponder
- Magic is an outcome where conditions should have produced a different result. Miracles are whenever God intervenes.
- The difference between results and consequences is whether we care about what our actions produce.
- When I do what God wants, I don’t have to worry about the results, but when I don’t do what God wants, I have reason to be concerned about the consequences.
- If I love God and I’m working to fulfill his purpose, the results will be good, even when I think the conditions are bad.
- The only way to guarantee results is to quit.
- Sometimes I try to sense what my true sense is, but I don’t have enough sense. So I need God’s sense, or I’m flat broke.
- If I could know the way things really are, I might know what I really need. Since I don’t know, I must trust the Lord for what he knows I need.
- What I call a lack of motivation is actually a motivation not to do what I would otherwise be motivated to do.
- Conclusive evidence only appears to be conclusive when we lack information that would change our conclusions.
- A goal has value only if what we are doing right now is focused in the right direction.
Questions for Further Thought
- What darkens people’s paths so they don’t know what to do?
- When we don’t know where to go or what to do, how can we turn on the light and see better?
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