Who’s in Charge of Your Life?

“Whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Jesus”–2 Corinthians 5:9.

“I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?”–Oswald Chambers.

“And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father”–Colossians 3:17.

“The freest man in the world is the man who is a willing servant of Christ. The most bound slave in the world is the man who thinks he is his own master, while he is the bond-servant of his own lusts”–Henry Clay Trumbull.

“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me”–Jeremiah 9:23-24.

“So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle. Do not correct me in anger, for I would die” (Jeremiah 10:24 NLT).

“Remember that God’s training can be for our correction or our preparation. God may use the trial to make us a more useful instrument, to qualify us for a new area of service. God knows best what each of us need; He uses difficulty to make us both tougher and tenderer”–John Kincaid.

“Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it, and right is right, even if nobody is doing it”–St. Augustine.

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6 Responses

  1. I also like Augustine’s quote, “New vessels will for long retain the taste of what is first poured into them.”

  2. I like John Kincaid comment about God is using the trial to qualify you for a new are of service. I need to hear that. As a leader at work the adversity has increased greatly this month.

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