August 19, 2014
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Pick up a high school yearbook and read the “What I want to do” sentence under each picture. You’ll get dizzy breathing the thin air of mountaintop visions. Ivy league school. Write books and live in Switzerland. Physician in a Third World country. Teach inner-city kids.
Yet, take the yearbook to a twentieth-year reunion and read the next chapter. Some dreams have come true, but many haven’t. Changing direction in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is. Convictions to change the world downgrade to commitments to pay the bills. Rather than make a difference, we make a salary. Rather than look outward, we look inward. And we don’t like what we see.
Philippians 1:6 says, “God began doing a good work in you, and he will continue it until it is finished.” May I spell out the message? God isn’t finished with you yet!
From When God Whispers Your Name, Max Lucado
Prayer:
Loving God. Thank You for making Yourself visible in the person of Jesus Christ;
and that I have encountered Him.
Forgive me for not making Him known more widely, or for allowing my friends
and colleagues to believe that He can only be found in churches.
Please help me to invite the people I know and meet to explore who Jesus is;
by reading the Bible together with them, praying for them and sharing my confidence in Jesus with them.
In His Name. Amen.