KENR!C

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Imagine if you got everything you wanted now: if you had your own megachurch, your big business, the CEO title, the million followers, the record label, the book deal.  It might be the worst thing that could ever happen to you. I know that if I got everything I wanted when I wanted it, I would’ve turned out to be an intolerable, arrogant, prideful jerk.  God wrecks us through humility.  He breaks our stubborn heifer necks.  He trains us, if only we would receive His discipline as grace. Jesus had twelve.  He preached in a way that gathered hundreds, but then he would say something like, “Eat my flesh, drink my blood” – and he would be back down to twelve.  He really only had three.  And in the end at the cross: none. If we are called to be like Christ: let us be last so we may be first.  Let us crucify our flesh to the world, carry the cross, deny ourselves, and follow him with all obedience. Don’t give up.  Teach your two or three.  Be all there.  Don’t look too far ahead.  Enjoy this day the Lord has made.  Don’t hold back for some future-version of you.  Pour out your life to those around you now. The fruits will come.  Sometimes the fruit is you.

I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world.

becoming an adult cheat sheet!!!