Thoughts.

• Monday, July 17, 2006 - A High Goal - A Long Goal

The other day we were playing a DVD of John Piper (which I highly recommend, especially for those involved in evangelism, which should be all of us.) As I watched I thought three thoughts: - I want to be just like him. - You cannot be just like him, because you are a woman. - If God wills then, I want to raise a son to be just like him. Now that goal is pretty long term, seeing that I'm not even married, nor do I have any plans of being so in the near future, but if in the plan of God I am ever a mother, I want to women and men who will love Christ enough to lay down their lives for Him. What makes a holy, spiritually powerful man or woman?  The Holy Spirit, who I am not! But, with God's help, I can raise a shell for God's Spirit to fill. And as mother said, "You can fill that shell with alot of Scripture." Today, though, I have - today!  I want to look to Christ and point others to Christ  "whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption." (1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV) And I must look to God to sanctify me to be a person holy, useful to the master, and prepared to do any good work.  I still have too many cold spots and hard corners of my heart that must be melted by His love. But He will do that work, for He has promised, and in this I rejoice: "that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:6 ESV)

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