Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts

* Martyred missionary Jim Elliot said it best:
"He is no fool to give what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
* It was when Lot stopped being a sojourner, and became a resident in Sodom (Ge 13), that he lost his consecration and his testimony and everything he lived for went up in smoke! (Ge 19)
· Keep reminding yourself that you are residing as an alien in this present evil age
· "and do not be conformed to (poured into the mold of) this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." (see note Romans 12:2)
Spiritual Christians keep themselves "loosely attached" to this world because they live for something and Someone far better. We need to remember that our stay on earth is temporary until they were called
Webster says an "alien" is one "belonging to another person & place", a good description of believers who are not their own and don't call this world their home. Christians should be different, not odd. When you are different, you attract people; when you are odd, you repel them.
The saint should understand that although he or she is just "passing through" and this world which is not our home, it does not suggest that we are to withdraw from the world. What this great truth does mean is that the sojourning saint should view all circumstances and all people in the light of eternity.

The way we think about eternity will determine the importance we attach to people and things. It is true that as a man thinks in his heart, so he (or she) is and so will his conduct be. It is because a saint sees all things in the light of eternity that he is the best of all citizens, for it is only in the light of eternity that the true values of anything can be measured.