"Christ must be everything: the beginning, the middle, and the end of our salvation. We must lay Him down as the first or foundation stone, rest the others and intermediate ones on Him, and also attach the rafters or the roof to Him. He is the first, the middle, and the last rung in the ladder to Heaven. Through Him we must begin, must continue, and must complete our progress to life." -Martin Luther

I've been reading various books this summer with the latest being a biography on Luther. I have felt a call to follow Christ in a new direction. What joy to know that it is all about Him and not me. He will blaze the path, He will take me where He wants me, He will act and I have only to trust Him and follow. What peace to know that I don't have to do the work, and that in trying to do it - I was rejecting Him.  

"Our Lord God resembles a typesetter, who sets his letters backwards. We definitely see and feel that He is setting His type, but the print we shall see in the beyond. Meanwhile we must have patience. "

"Patince is born out of the conviction that God will act." -ML