I'm More Concerned About Who You're Becoming

If We Do Not Become Changed From The Inside-out - If We Don't Morph - We Will Be Tempted To Find External Methods To Satisfy Our Need To Feel That We're Different From Those Outside The Faith. If We Cannot Be Transformed, We Will Settle For Being Informed Or Conformed.

Both Hope And Pessimism Are Deeply Contagious. And No One Is More Infectious Than A Leader.

God Is Never A God Of Discouragement. When You Have A Discouraging Spirit Or Train Of Thought In Your Mind, You Can Be Sure It Is Not From God. He Sometimes Brings Pain To His Children-conviction Over Sin, Or Repentance Over Fallenness, Or Challenges That Scare Us, Or Visions Of His Holiness That Overwhelm Us. But God Never Brings Discouragement.

We Must Learn To Cast Off Our Anxieties Because We Have So Many Of Them. The World Destroys Spiritual Life By Generating Constant Anxiety. Jesus Said That The Life Of The Gospel Is Choked Out By The Cares Of This World. We Know This To Be True Yet We Are More Chained And Tethered To The World Than Ever Before In The Human Race.

People Who Are Servants-humbly, Honestly, And Joyfully-keep Getting Revealed As The Biggest Winners. People Who Recognize And Embrace Their Smallness Keep Getting Bigger And Bigger In God's Eyes. It's The Oddest Scoring System.