Recent Quotes

Just a handful of quotes this morning that have challenged me lately.

These are ones from listening to some of Tripp's sermons...

If you understand that we are marching towards eternity, you then get what the agenda is for the here and now. (perspective, perspective, perspective...we must keep our minds fixed in the right place.)

Maybe trials are so hard because they are challenging the replacement identities we are already carrying. (this may not make tons of sense if you haven't thought about your identity in Christ (redeemed, sons, etc.) rather than the identities we often label ourselves by (good parent, hard worker, etc.), but his point is that God often uses trials to knock our identities back into their right place. It's great to be a good parent and a hard worker, but if you're having a bad day/some form of criticism comes/something unexpected happens and your identity is in those things, you crash and burn rather than remind yourself that you are redeemed, loved, and forgiven even when you mess up/people don't seem to appreciate you/you don't understand what went wrong.)

If situations can rob you of your peace or other people can rob you of peace, you're probably not resting in the God of glory. (once again, perspective...when we can look at our world as ultimately under God's control, no matter the circumstances, we can have peace...it's when our view of God isn't as glorious or as great as He really is that we become anxious.)

And, this was one found on a handwriting sheet of Hannah's:

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. --Benjamin Franklin (the more I think about this, the more true I find it to be...it is very hard to hold your tongue in certain situations.)

last of the Hawaii pics :)