Quote of the Day

I've started posting a "quote" on the board outside my office door. It's been fun to get people's responses to my posting. So, I thought I'd carry that over to this medium, and until I can get up the creativity to write some of my own "quotables" for this blog..I want to share from a book I'm reading, "Total Truth" by Nancy Pearcey.

Having been awakened, some years ago, to the idea of how we live for our desires (good or bad) I was struck by this line,

"As we undergo refining in the fires of suffering, our desires are purified and we find ourselves wanting nothing more than to bend every fiber of our being, including our mental powers, to full the Lord's Prayers: 'Thy Kingdom come.' We yearn to lay all our talents and gifts at His feet in order to advance His purposes in our world."

I certainly wouldn't say I'm going through "fires of suffering" (more like fires of waiting), but nonetheless these last months have been a time of refining. I'm not there yet (at the place where I have laid down all my talents and gifts) but God is definitely drawing me.

The other quote from Mrs. Pearcey is:
"We must be willing to sit at the feet of Jesus and be taught by Him, as Mary of Bethany did, realizing that only "one thing is necessary" (Luke 10:42)."

I'm having the hardest time with this part of the process!!

"Given our fallen human nature, we typically do not really sit before the Lord until our legs are knocked out from under us by crises--sorrow, loss, or injustice. It is only when stripped of our personal dreams and ambitions that we truly die to our own agendas. Union with Christ in His death and resurrection is the only path to sanctification of both heart and mind--to being conformed to the likeness of Christ."

Knock away, Lord!

So, those are my thoughts...