Count it All Joy: Pause

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Pause

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

-John 5:44

Just to get you thinking:

Why is it that we seek after what people think about us?

Why do we sometimes take someone else's judgment above Christ's?

God says:

Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

-Matthew 7:1

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement.

-Ecclesiastes 11:9

You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.

-Leviticus 20:26

Why is it that we desire to follow after the heart, mind, and opinion of someone else,

rather than the most perfect, Divine Being to ever exist?

God says:

Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

-Matthew 16:24

Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

-Psalm 31:18

"Come follow me," Jesus said...

-Matthew 4:19

We are not trying to please men but God, who tests our hearts. You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness.We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else.

-1 Thessalonians 2:4-6

Marianne Williamson once said, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be. We were born to make manifest of the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."