If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence with no TV, movies, or singles’ retreats? You’d be bored to tears in heaven, if you’re not ecstatic about God now!
How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you’re not in heaven right here on earth when you’re alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you’ll be in heaven and “presto!” all at once you’re not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you’ll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn’t stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day?
How could God invite you to heaven, where the most exciting thing to do all day is gaze upon His glorious face, if you’re not in heaven right here on earth when you’re alone with Him? Do you think that after you die, suddenly you’ll be in heaven and “presto!” all at once you’re not going to like worldly things anymore? All of a sudden you’ll love more than anything else just to hang out with God, when you couldn’t stand being alone with Him even 20 minutes a day?
― Keith Green
mai 15 18:59 with 532 notes
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
― Timothy Keller
Fév 03 19:40 with 31 notes
People are people wherever you go, and every soul is precious to God, and Jesus is to be found in unexpected places.
― Brooke Fraser
mai 01 19:03 with 5 notes
There has been a very dangerous division between what we call the secular and the sacred. So you divide it off, your day to day work is secular, but your devotional life and going to church is sacred. I believe that is a lie. There is nothing secular. All of life belongs to God.
mai 01 14:44 with 19 notes
