Mine
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Why do we reject God’s generosity?
Why do we reject God’s generosity?
We would rather own MINE than share GOD’S. (Luke 15:1-3)
Have my own stuff.
Go my own way.
Do my own thing.
Be my own man.
We are always choosing less that we could have had. But we think that’s better.
[The mind] Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n....
Here at least We shall be free…
Here we may reign secure...
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way
The funny thing is that Sinatra hated that song—he thought it was pretentious and self-centered. But he couldn’t stop singing it.
MINE is a TRAP we can never ESCAPE. (Mark 10:24-25, Revelation 21:25-27)
We ignore what is good for us because we won’t let go of the thing.
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Monkey Trap
On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Where is God in all this?
Where is God in all this?
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you what is best for you,
who directs you in the way you should go.
If only you had paid attention to my commands,
your peace would have been like a river,
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
God wants to give us his KINGDOM—but we have to LET GO. (Isaiah 48:17-18, Mark 8:34-36)
