Try interrupting the mediations of someone who is very attached to her spiritual exercises and you will see her upset, flustered, taken aback.  A person who has this true freedom will leave her prayer, unruffled, gracious toward the person who has unexpectedly disturbed her, for to her it’s all the same—serving God by meditating or serving Him by responding to her neighbor.  Both are the will of God, but helping the neighbor is necessary at that particular moment.

Francis de Sales

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.  We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.  For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.  So death is at work in us, but life in you.

2 Corinthians 4:7-12
The English Standard Version

You are a Christian today because somebody cared.  Now it’s your turn.

Warren Wiersbe

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