Wednesday, March 08, 2017
An excerpt of a prayer at the end of the sermon by John Piper:
Father, I pray for pastors who teach these things to their people so that they build radical, crazy, out-of-sync, risk-taking, sacrificial, love-displaying, Christ-exalting congregations who can only be explained because Jesus has so satisfied their souls forever, that they can say "Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also. The body they may kill, God's truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever!"
That was a sermon about how the normal Christian life is meant to be radical, rather than the passive lives that many of us lead.
I was just thinking about what would happen if I were a Christian in a country that persecutes Christians.. It would only be by the Spirit that I would be able to say: "For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my Lord, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." (Psalm 84:10)
Its difficult to be faithful in the big things, but even more difficult to be faithful in all the small things of daily life. May God give me the eyes to see my reality in the light of His word, and the empowerment to live for Him!
avoid the aliens;
11:02 PM
