What happens when we spend all our focus on something other than God? We associate money, sex, power, knowledge and even holiness, or goodness, as idols, but we don't often associate the desire for a spouse--the love of our life--as an idol. Tim Keller discusses Jacob and his quest for his love, and the way God blessed Leah to be the ancestral mother of Christ.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless, indeed, you fail to meet the test! 2 Corinthians 13
This is Francis Chan at the Perry Noble Leadership Conference from September 2010.http://castracker.com/t.html?f=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.newspring.cc%2Faudio%2FLeadershipPodcast%2FLeadership.podcast.2011.01.mp3
Do I encourage others--give them courage to be who Christ is calling them to be, who the Spirit of Christ is directing them, or do I promote complacency, and trample on God's Spirit?
Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom, do not let the mighty boast in their might, do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth; but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord. Jeremiah 9
http://podcasting.jessup.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/20080424-francis-chan.mp3What leads us down the paths we choose? Sometimes it is a matter of simply not choosing to follow any particular path, and not caring what happens to us along the way, blindly believing that things will work out. If we don’t have the mind of Christ we have the mind of the world, and in the world there are many opportunities to make bad choices.
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