"If you're living out the Gospel in your marriage, you're living a life of daily radical sacrifice."
It was a quote I read by a man I do not know (Pastor Eric Bancroft) on the blog of a woman that I don't know....but God used both of them to encourage my heart! We serve a BIG God, don't we?!!!!! Not the mention the fact that the internet is a very cool thing!:)
Okay, back to the quote. They are some serious words to chew on! I couldn't help but read the quote again inserting the words "to your children" in the place of marriage to really get a "double whammy" effect!:)
As I run this race, the goal is the Gospel...Paul says it this way, "Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel" (Phil. 1:27) and he say in 1 Cor. 9:27 that he does "all for the sake of the gospel." And, going back to the quote...it's simply echoing the words of Jesus Himself when He said in Mark 8:34-35:
"If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it."
I so deeply want to obey Jesus...want to be filled with the fullness of HIS joy as I stay in HIS presence and walk in HIS footsteps. And that means dying to myself...it means letting go of what I think will "save my life" and bring me joy and, instead, "lose myself" in the precious blood of Jesus and in HIS beautiful promises for my life. It means living each moment of every day of my life as a wife, mom, daughter, sister, friend and sister-in-Christ with an attitude of joyful surrender and sacrifice for the glory of God and the good of those around me and ME!
That is RADICAL living...it is far beyond the norm...it's impossible on our own...it's Spirit filled living...and my heart cries out for it!
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Thanks for visiting me recently too. I'm afraid I haven't spent much time reading or writing on the internet lately. I'm humbled when I have visitors :)