Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- If we can be thrilled by seeing God’s blessings, then we don’t have to be disappointed because we didn’t get what we wanted.
- There’s nothing better than a close-call accident to teach us to be more careful.
- God’s omnipotence and the extent of his lack of control due to free will deserves careful consideration if we are to understand reality.
- To reach out and take God’s hands, we must first get up and take our baby steps toward him.
- Misdirected worship is more noisy fanfare than heartfelt God fare.
- If we want to provide genuine help to meet people’s needs, we must have God’s guidance to know when, where, and how.
- All of God’s commandments are opportunities to experience more of his grace and glory.
- My next step is crucial, because the slightest deviation from God’s will takes me in a direction I don’t want to go.
- When people see our actions, they should know that the Kingdom of God is here.
- People need church, fellowship, and devotions to be energized, but I most need to bask in God’s presence for a long while.
- The Good News is good only for the ones who hear, believe, and follow it.
- Complete trust in God must reach beyond every reason we might have to doubt and believe anyway.
- When we’re walking with God, we get to experience one thrilling adventure after another.
- Praise brings us closer to God, where we put ourselves in a position to abandon our wants so we can have what God wants.
- When God doesn’t explain his plan, we must trust him, step-by-step, and that’s his plan.
- With a little faith and a very big God, we need only to abandon our self-serving desires and follow Jesus to be saved.
- Until we die to self, we cannot really live as the Lord would have us live.
- Before God can be in complete control of my life, I must I completely surrender my desire to be in control.
- Delight in the Lord has its greatest value when we can rejoice in the midst of hard times.
- My prayer is for God to answer my desire with what he knows is best for me, not what I think is best.
- Patience is doing all we can while waiting for the opportunity to do more.
- The problem with sin is not the action, but it is the desire that is contrary to what God would have us do.
- Our suffering is the evidence of our faith and the proof or our testimony.
- There is no greater blessing than to be used of God on Earth, for with each good deed, we get a taste of Heaven.
- I might be 80 percent right and 20 percent, but I’m not sure which is the 20 percent.
- Pursuing God’s will is not merely a methodology, but it is a motivation to please him above our self-serving desires.