Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Our determination is destructive when it isn’t submitted to the Lord’s guidance.
- A problem to be solved. A question to be answered. A goal to be achieved. A pleasure to be pursued. A job to be completed. All worthless without the Lord.
- Pleasing the Lord is good, but becoming the person he wants us to be is better.
- Being created for God’s good pleasure is an indescribably wonderful thing, but only if we’re willing and obedient.
- Stupid mistakes make us smart when they lead us to abandon wrong and do what is right.
- Being close to God requires our walking with him in whatever way he would direct, not expecting him to walk with us according to our direction.
- People will pay for what they want, but you can’t even give them what they don’t want.
- Since God is light and life, anything we say or do that takes us away from God must lead toward darkness and death.
- Perfection is being where God wants us to be, doing what he wants us to do.
- When Jesus said, “It’s finished,” he was looking at an eternity of work left to do because of what he had finished.
- We become a living miracle as God changes us from who we are to who he wants us to be.
- Seeing God’s reality instead of our own gives us a solid foundation upon which we can build something that lasts.
- When busy about doing what God wants, we are able to do what otherwise we could not do.
- God’s gift of life is not to be restrained or contained, but it is to radiate his glory for everyone to see.
- Having what God wants should be the perfect answer to having everything we want.
- We need God’s help to distinguish opportunities from obstacles, because with our limited eyesight, they can appear much the same.
- Anything I get to do in Heaven is worth doing on Earth.
- Imposters strive to look their best, but they have to deal with the reality of not being who they appear to be.
- Live within your means, and you’ll always have enough.
- The power of the Jesus’ miracles came from his passion to do nothing out of his own initiative, but to act only as the Spirit led.
- Without excitement, the groove we run in will feel like a rut.
- We need God’s help to know what we don’t know but need to know, or we will be like the blind who fall into the ditch.
- Pray without ceasing, not to have what we want but to have what God wants.
- Some people dress in tatters to conceal their riches while others dress lavishly to conceal their poverty.
- Impossibilities are achieved one possible step at a time.
- Patience should turn our focus away from impatience, because of what we don’t have, to making use of what we do have.