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Flowers Delivery Man

Posted in Judson Cornwall, Praise, Pride, Quotes, tagged , , on October 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »

In my early traveling ministry, I was greatly disturbed by the praise given to me for my teaching ministry. I often rebuked people by telling them, “Give God the glory.” In a prayer session one day, God asked me why I was so hard on His children. “They don’t know how to give the glory to Me directly,” He said, “but you should know how to receive it and, in turn, give it to Me.

Treat each compliment as a flower. Thank them for their praises, and then put them together as a bouquet and present it to Me.”

From that day to this I have joyfully collected praise flowers. Before going to sleep at night, I present this bouquet to Father God. I have the pleasure of smelling the flowers, but He has the responsibility of handling them…

I recognize the flowers I hold in my hand do not belong to me; I am but the floral delivery person…The day I’d begin to believe all that other say about me would be the beginning of the end of my ministry.

— Judson Cornwall, Forbidden Glory

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Is God Egotistical?

Posted in God, Praise, tagged on May 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. – Isaiah 42:8

We don’t like people who consider themselves, usually at our expense, supremely important. Yet God considers himself the most important person in the universe for all time. Is God egotistical? It would be incorrect to think so.

John Piper (1946 – ), Reformed Pastor and Theologian, addresses it this way,

God would be unrighteous (just as we would) if He valued anything more than what is supremely valuable. But He Himself is supremely valuable. If He did not take infinite delight in the worth of His own glory, He would be unrighteous” – Desiring God, pg 42-43

We don’t like those of our rank who consider themselves supremely important because they are not, but God is.

He calls us to value him highest because as we do we place life’s anchor on someone who will not give way. His glory is not at our expense but for our benefit.

Prayer: You, Father, are supremely valuable and it is right for all creation to give you, alone, praise and worship! Amen!

Sound Bite: It is right to give God thanks and praise!.

-fritz@langgang.com

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Praising Without Feelings

Posted in Anthony Bloom, Feelings, Love, Praise, Quotes, tagged on May 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Anthony Bloom

Some think it insincere to offer praise to God without the corresponding feelings.

Anthony Bloom (1914 – 2003), Archbishop in the Orthodox Church, has good insight here.

When you live in your family, and you work out of doors and are doing a heavy kind of work, you may come back physically worn out. If at that moment your mother, your sister, your father or whoever else, said ‘Do you love me?’ you would say ‘I do.’

If the other person goes on investigating, ‘Do you really love me at this moment?’ what you could honestly have said is ‘No, I feel nothing but my aching back and worn out body.’ But you are perfectly right in saying ‘I love you’ because you know that underneath all exhaustion, there is a live current of love.
– Beginning to Pray, page 35-36

It is that way with God. For one reason or another we don’t always feel our love for him but there is, still, a live current of love.

Prayer:Father, I thank you there is a live current of love in me for you and yours, even when I don’t always feel it.

Sound Bite: The live current of Love for Christ is deeper than my surface feelings.

– fritz@langgang.com

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