Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- Simplicity is having a single God-given focus, and complexity is trying to understand it all.
- Since God knows me so much better than I know myself, he knows what I really need, and I can only guess.
- The answer means nothing until we understand the problem.
- Instead of helping, my message might be damaging—unless God helps me say the right thing, and that’s assuming I am supposed to say something.
- God hurts for lost people more than we can hurt for our losses.
- I don’t have to understand everything, but I do need to know whatever God knows I need to know, at the time I need to know it.
- The obvious becomes invisible when we’re looking in the wrong direction.
- God will not take his people through difficult times without a good purpose that justifies the pain.
- If we let him, Satan will steal what we need and give what we don’t need but might think we do.
- Christians who think they are in control have missed the crucial truth about their need for God, for we can do nothing of value without his help.
- Closed doors are as important as open doors when they take us to where God wants.
- If God knows when we’re sleeping or awake, we should seek his dreams, which are so much better than our nightmares.
- God’s sense of humor points toward realities we might otherwise miss.
- If we are as the Bible says, fearfully and wonderfully made, we’re not a copy of anybody else but should love our uniqueness in Christ, made different for his unique purpose.
- Carrying God’s burdens is much easier than trying to walk with sin’s chains.
- We appreciate people who go out of their way to express gratitude for the good we’ve done, but hearing God say thank you is priceless.
- A fragment of God’s love is worth more than the fullness of ourselves.
- Under Law, people went to the Temple to meet God, worship, and pray. But now, under Grace, we are his temple.
- God’s love is worth dying for—or we will die for something else.
- Understanding how something works can involve separating the parts to see how each piece functions in connection with others.
- We should thank God for our bad days when they bring us closer to him.
- Discomfort and confusion come from feeling we should do something when we really don’t know if we should.
- Preparation is doing it now because there won’t be time to do it later, when it’s needed.
- When peace and quiet is difficult to find, we most need to hear the Lord in the midst of all the noise.
- Without God’s cleansing, we can’t walk through the filth of this world and avoid getting dirty.
- Worrying over what to say next can keep us from hearing what we must know before we can say what we need to say next.