Do you have what it takes? Please don’t take offense that I ask you this, because you are going to find out that you do. So, now let me clarify the question: “Do you have what it takes to live your life with a heart on fire for God?” That’s what we want, isn’t it? To live fully alive and happily in love with our God. What does that take? Certainly, it takes being born again, but there’s more to…
You can be the master of your own state! I’m talking about your inner state, of course, not some banana republic with you playing dictator. That kind of mastery never works in the real world anyway. (However, to see a comic version of the attempt, check out “The Man Who Would Be King.”) We don’t even get to rule over our inner state with the iron fist of a tyrant…
Am I going crazy? I must be. I keep singing “the surrender blues.” What do I mean by that? Quite simply, that I shoot myself in the foot by not stepping completely into the grace of a yielded heart. I could be the happiest person alive (and so could you), if only I would trust more and fret less. Oh, how faith and grace smooth out the bumps in the road! My spiritual body gets black and blue from banging…