A Thought for Your Weekend . . .

Here is an outstanding quote from an outstanding book by Nancy DeMoss. I encourage you to give it some thought.

"Our culture is obsessed with being whole and feeling good. That drive affects even the way we view the Christian life. We want a 'painless Pentecost'; we want a 'laughing' revival. We want gain without pain; we want resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by the way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet him in brokenness. Our families will never be whole until husbands and wives, moms and dads, and young people have been broken. Our churches will never be the vibrant witness God intended them to be in the world until their members - pastors and laypeople alike - have experienced true brokenness" (Nancy DeMoss, Brokenness: the Heart God Revives, pp. 49-50).

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and lofty One says—
he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
"I live in a high and holy place,
but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Thanks for stopping by . . .

pj