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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Don't Waste Your Life
In the days and weeks ahead, High School and College graduates will take the next steps in their life's journey. John Piper calls these young adults to make a radical decision now to pursue Christ as his/her greatest treasure as opposed to pursuing earthly comfort at the end of his/her life.
There is too much spiritual blindness and physical suffering in the world to work in this life for your own comfort. If Christ is our treasure, then we will lay down our lives for the sake of meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the world.
There is too much spiritual blindness and physical suffering in the world to work in this life for your own comfort. If Christ is our treasure, then we will lay down our lives for the sake of meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the world.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Happy Mother's Day
Original post at The Resurgence:
A Few Quotes
Today is focused on appreciating and honoring mothers. Here are a few quotes regarding mothers:
“To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation’s citizens.”
"I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it."
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
“There is no assignment on earth that requires the array of skills and understanding needed by a mom in fulfilling her everyday duties. She must be a resident psychologist, physician, theologian, educator, nurse, chef, taxi driver, fire marshal and occasional police officer.”
"Try to raise up mothers...mothers are the want of the world."
“Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.”
God’s love surpasses a mother’s love: "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you" (Is 49.15). Sometimes we hear of parents abandoning their child. God, however, will never under any circumstances abandon you if you are his child, even though we often prove unfaithful to him. God’s steadfast love endures forever.
A Few Quotes
Today is focused on appreciating and honoring mothers. Here are a few quotes regarding mothers:
“To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation’s citizens.”
—Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911), evangelist, suffragist, and author. She championed the right of young women to attend college and is co-founder of Women's Christian Temperance Union.
"I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it."
—Rose Kennedy, JFK’s mother
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
—Spanish Proverb
“There is no assignment on earth that requires the array of skills and understanding needed by a mom in fulfilling her everyday duties. She must be a resident psychologist, physician, theologian, educator, nurse, chef, taxi driver, fire marshal and occasional police officer.”
—James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family
"Try to raise up mothers...mothers are the want of the world."
—Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army
“Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.”
—Thomas Carlyle
God’s love surpasses a mother’s love
It is appropriate to compare God’s love for us to a mother’s love for her child. Notice on airplanes that they say, “If the oxygen masks drop and you are traveling with a child, make sure to put the mask on yourself first, and then take care of your child.” I asked a flight attendant why they said that and he explained: “Because a mother’s instinct is to sacrifice herself and to protect her child first. But we need the mom’s to take care of themselves first so they can really protect their children.” God’s love for you is like that, but better...God’s love surpasses a mother’s love: "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you" (Is 49.15). Sometimes we hear of parents abandoning their child. God, however, will never under any circumstances abandon you if you are his child, even though we often prove unfaithful to him. God’s steadfast love endures forever.
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