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Distractions During Prayer

December 18, 2011 by Fritz

Herbert McCabe (1926-2001)

Trace your distraction back to the real desires it comes from and pray about these.

When you are praying for what you really want you will not be distracted. People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

– Herbert McCabe, English theologian

God, Christ and Us, pg. 187 (a compilation of twenty-seven sermons of the famous English theologian Herbert McCabe London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005). Quoted in Philip Yancey’s book, Prayer (Kindle Locations 4039-4041). Zondervan. Kindle Edition

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Two (2) Metaphors for Life’s Focus

December 17, 2011 by Fritz

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field. — Psalm 103:15-18

Ingrained in us is the desire to build/accomplish something permanent — isn’t going to happen! Life is not designed that way.

Only God and his purposes endure.

John the baptizer, in the Bible, uses an additional metaphor:

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly …

He must increase, but I must decrease.” — John 3:29-30

The Best Man at a wedding knows the wedding is not about him and he’s happy with that.

As youth fades don’t be sad at the decrease, recognize your purpose and put the focus on the one whom life is, really, all about — our time comes later (Rev 19:9). Next time something you do, even with the best intentions, fails to produce results you want, offer those efforts, desires, and results as a sacrifice to Christ.

— fritz

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God’s Poetry

December 16, 2011 by Fritz

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. — Ephesians 2:10

The Biblical word translated “workmanship” in this verse is “Poiema” — It is where we get our English word, “Poem”.

The Holy Spirit tell us we are God’s poetry.

— fritz

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