On the Prison of a Good Reputation
So many of us Christians need to break free from the prison that is our good reputation.
What was formerly filled with God’s presence often becomes filled with our buzzing, enterprising activity.
God’s abundance is not a magnification of whatever we tend to think of as a lot. His is an abundance of another magnitude—of another order.
So often we ask God to reveal himself to us in fresh and new ways, and yet so often we fail to approach Scripture with this same kind of asking.
Never despise the days of small beginnings. Small beginnings are, in fact, the true nature of how the kingdom of God spreads and grows.
To behold Jesus means moving in the ever-deepening kind of humility that requires me to confess that though I love him, I scarcely know him.