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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Risk.

The power to risk is in the promise of God
. Obedience is risk. The bottom line comfort and assurance in all our risk-taking for Christ is that nothing will ever separate us from the love of God.

Every good poised to bless us, and every evil arrayed against us, will in the end help us boast only in the cross, magnify Christ, and glorify our Creator. Faith in these promises frees us to risk and to find in our own experience that it is better to lose our life than to waste it.

- John Piper

Whom.

In any museum we will find quite ordinary things - clothes, a
walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture - which are only of
value because they were possessed and used by some great person.
It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the
Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he
acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he
belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact
that he is God's.

- William Barclay

Daily.

"The great hindrance in spiritual life is that we will look for big things
to do. 'Jesus took a towel . . . and began to wash the disciples' feet.'
There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the
daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our
times of inspiration. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling
minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God."

Oswald Chambers