Maybe one of the greatest accomplishments that we can achieve is coming to understand what we can achieve. On second thought, maybe it’s not understanding as much as it is believing.
Vision is the ability to see through the dense mass of meaningless stuff that a visionless life has caused us to construct.
The battle didn’t just happen to happen. Rather, God invited us to the battle so that we could be left utterly breathless at the miraculous way that He won it. And once we witness that kind of victory, our need to fight anything is replaced by His ability to win everything.
It’s not that I don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that I don’t believe in not believing in God.
When the sun begins rubbing the eastern horizon warm with the first pastel-thin light of a new day, I am reminded that the sun had to let the world go dark before it was sufficiently positioned to make the world become light.
This morning, the birds were singing before the sun came up. And in thinking about that, it amazed me that they would readily sing into the darkness without demanding that the light show itself first.
There are those who say that it can’t be done, and then there are those who say that it will be done. If I listen to the former, it will never be done. But if I listen to the latter, I’ll find that it’s already done before it’s done.
Everything feverishly works to convince us that they can be everything that we need. And when will the level of our impoverishment finally convince us that we should be unconvinced?
If the candles that I am lighting are those that I have so cleverly crafted, a thousand of them or more amassed together cannot dispel the darkness from which I am forever seeking refuge. Yet, a solitary candle fashioned by God leaves the entire world a place where even the slightest of shadows has no refuge, and my candles no purpose.
If the alternative to believing in God is believing in men, then the answer as to why I should believe in God is not only simple, it’s blatantly obvious.
Darkness is the place where God is not. Therefore, if I’m sitting in a bunch of darkness I’m living without much of God.
Peace is a state of being that is not reflective of what is transpiring around me, but is reflective of what God is doing within me.
It’s not about the magnitude of the thing that I fear, rather it’s about the magnitude of my attitude about the thing that I fear.
It is the storm that I watch so that it will not catch me unawares, when I should be watching God in the storm so that He can catch me in the waves.
The greatest stance that I can take has nothing to do with standing, rather it has everything to do with dropping…to my knees.
It is the person of prayer who shakes the world. And it is when our knees hit the ground in prayer that the shaking begins.
Might we remember what God has saved us from in the past so that we might be saved from our fear of the future.
It’s never a fool’s errand to have goals bigger than what we are. Rather, the fool’s errand is believing that there’s no such thing as a God who’s bigger than what our goals are.
Impossible is a fact when it comes to people, but when it comes to God it’s nothing but bad fiction.
We assume the impossible to be just that…impossible. But when it comes to God, it’s impossible that anything is impossible. Therefore, if we understand this reality and if we dare to act it out in our lives, could it be that the word impossible is just an excuse?
