Quotes I've been pondering lately:
"First, if being an apprentice of Jesus is the central defining aspect of our lives, then God's will and the process of learning God's will MUST BE just one aspect of our apprenticship, rather than the end goal of life..."
"On the other hand, if finding God's will was the end goal of life, then all of life is a performance- an equation to be hacked, a correct porportionate recipe to be mixed, a formula to be dicifered . If God's will is the end goal of life wouldn't Jesus have said "Come, follow My will," or, "Seek first My will?" But that's not what He said. I would think, then, that discerning God's will is consumed in the simple, yet all-encompassing phrase "Follow Me." And if that's the case, then the central question in life is not, "Have you discerned God's will for your life- vocation, college, spouce, location?" but, "Are you becoming a learner of Christ as you navigate life, career, family, dating/marriage, relationship?""
And one other thing from Oswald Chambers:
"We are not on display in God’s showcase— we are here to exhibit only one thing— the "captivity [of our lives] to the obedience of Christ" ( 2 Corinthians 10:5 )."
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