Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

Francis Chan. Crazy Love. (via simpleandy)

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What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors (Adam and Eve) was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’ - could set up their own as if they had created themselves - be their own masters - invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (via cafespirit)

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Some of us wear our Christianity like clothing. We wear it when it suits the occasion, and take it off when it doesn’t. Instead, we must tattoo our Christianity onto our body, display it openly, and never let it fade.

Brianna Imbrogno (via heisincontrol)

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On your wedding day, God loaned you his work of art: an intricately crafted, precisely formed masterpiece. He entrusted you with one-of-a-kind creation. Value her. Honor him.

Max Lucado, Facing Your Giants (via deebella123)

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Mom: Why is your room always so messy?

Me: So that if someone comes in and tries to kill me, they'll trip over something and die.

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You can observe the cross and analyze the cross. You can read about it, even pray to it. But until you leave something there, you haven’t embraced the cross.

He Chose the Nails, Max Lucado (via ripitrollitpunchit)

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‎Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what’s in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there’s nothing in it for us. To want that person’s purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

Joshua Harris (via alohasherry)

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