What stirs you the most?
For me, it is that He first loved us.
Then, it is the accounts of those Soldiers of The Cross who have been eager to be used in any way He wanted. There have been so few, yet so many. In my constant search for new missionary biographies, I always find someone of whom I have never heard.
Can you say your heart is hot for Him? There are times of sorrow, frustration, fear and often numbness. But at all times, it is possible for us to encourage ourselves in the Lord as did David. (I Samuel 30:6) We have no idea what David did. It is a good thing we don't know, because if we did, we would try to do the same thing.
Three years after I met the Lord I was a wreck. I felt betrayed and trapped. I was so devastated I could barely function. I found myself in a bowling alley in Keene, New Hampshire. There was a Christian bookstore next to it, so first I went into the bookstore and bought Elizabeth Eliott's "Love Has a Price tag." Then, I went next door to the bowling alley and tried to think of the most rebellious thing I could do. I decided to buy a beer. It was not a very successful expression of rebellion because I have always loathed beer and could not drink it.
But the book was fabulous. I drank deeply from the pages.
When I returned home to Maine, I decided to get the best Christian biographies I could find, and devour them. Immediately I was encouraged. I began to be released to pray, sing and memorize again. The Lord had been real to me from the day of salvation, but I had been stuck in my own emotions.
The Lord intends for His Own to walk in release and abundant life. It is not about ease or human safety, but it is about a faith walk that lays it all on the line in order to be completely available to what ever He wants.
Isn't that beautiful to you?
Isn't that what you want?
Is there anything better?