Wednesday Wisdom No. 29

"Excellence requires caring about someone or something enough to invest time, effort, and skill into it, with God's glory and our neighbor's good as the goal.  Biblically defined, true excellence has others in mind―first God, and then our neighbor.  'So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God' (1 Cor. 10:31).  Eating and drinking are fairly common aspects of daily life, and yet even ordinary meals become significant when they draw our attention once again to glorifying and enjoying the God who provides them.” 

~ Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World

Wednesday Wisdom No. 28

"Do you feel alone today?  Are there ways in which you feel alienated and unloved?  Do you feel misrepresented or misunderstood?  Do you feel passed by and taken for granted?  Do you feel broken and in need of repair?  Do you struggle to find reasons to continue?  Do you wonder if it’s worth it?  Does it seem that there’s no one to share your heart with?  Do you sometimes wonder whether anyone cares?  When the waves of loneliness and discouragement roll over you, where do you run, where do you hide? ...Yes, life can be very hard, people can be very cruel, and there are times when you are left alone, but you are never completely alone because your Father is with you in tender restorative love." ~ Paul Tripp, New Morning Mercies

Wednesday Wisdom No. 27

“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.”
~ Jim Elliot