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"I Did It My Way," Sinatra crooned.
"I’m as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change," declared Lynard Skynard.
"Find your own road," cry the current crop of Saab ads.
Individualism and nonconformity are more than popular opinions; you might even say that such attitudes have ingrained themselves as part of "the American ideal." Philosopher Russell Hittinger remarked that "we now live in a nation populated by 260 million supreme beings."
Are we willing to buck the trend, and submit our lives to the authority of the living, sovereign God of Heaven?
Source: www.breakpoint.org/scripts/61002.htm
Topics/Tags: God, sovereign; Submission; Surrender
Those who bear the cross may also be sheltered by it
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Gary Heard
Melbourne, Australia
Source: "Christian Leadership" email discussion list
Topics/Tags: Cross; Shelter; Submission
"Lord, do in me what you need to do, so you can do through me what you have to do."
--
Gary Heard
Melbourne, Australia
Source: "Christian Leadership" email discussion list
Topics/Tags: Prayer; Submission; Purpose
The person who looks up to God rarely looks down on people
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Gary Heard
Melbourne, Australia
Source: "Christian Leadership" email discussion list
Topics/Tags: Submission; Attitude; Friendship; Relationships
"God does not always choose great people to accomplish what he wishes, but he chooses a person who is wholly yielded to him."
—Henrietta Mears
Topics/Tags: Submission; God, purposes of; Usefulness
A mother wishing to encourage her son's progress at the piano, bought tickets to a Paderewski performance. When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front of the convert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on stage. Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and didn't notice her son slip away.
At eight o'clock, the lights in the auditorium began to dim, lights came on, and only then did they notice the boy onstage, seated at the piano, innocently picking out "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
His mother gasped, but before she could retrieve her son, the master appeared on the stage and quickly moved to the keyboard. He whispered to the boy, "Don't quit. Keep playing." Leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the other side and improvised a delightful obligatio. Together, the old master and the young novice held the crowd mesmerized.
In our lives, unpolished though we may be, it is the Master who surrounds us and whispers in our ear time and time again, "Don't quit. Keep playing." And as we do, He augments and supplements until work of amazing beauty is created.
Source: unknown
Topics/Tags: Music; Submission; Power, of god; Master
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without word than thy words without heart.
John Bunyan
Topics/Tags: Prayer; Silence; Submission
Title of a song by Christian rock group Petra:
"Get On Your Knees & Fight Like a Man."
Source: Petra, This Means War!, Star Song 1987
Topics/Tags: Prayer; Boldness; Courage; Submission
It is not thou that shapest God but God that shapest Thee. If thou art the work of God await the hand the artist who does all things in due season. Offer Him thy heart, soft and tractable, and keep the form in which the artist has fashioned thee. Let thy clay be moist, lest thou grow hard and lose the imprint of His fingers.
-- St. Irenaeus
Source: Irenaeus
Topics/Tags: Submission; Usefulness; Commitment
Mysophobia is fear of "dirt."
Hydrophobia is fear of "water."
Nyclophobia is the fear of "darkness."
Acrophobia is fear of "high places."
Taxophobia is fear of being "buried alive."
Xenophobia is fear of "strangers."
Necrophobia is fear of the "dead."
Claustrophobia is fear of "confined places."
Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the "number 13."
Unfortunately, many people have learned to fear things that they probably shouldn't have, yet they've never learned the fear of God.
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28).
Source: Robert G. Lee, SERMONIC LIBRARY, pp. 46-47.
Topics/Tags: Fear; God, fear of; Submission
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