Quotes for Pondering...Reflecting...

On Worship -
An architect prepares to build…
A surgeon prepares to operate…
A teacher prepares to teach…
A student prepares for class…
An athlete prepares to compete…

Do I come to church prepared to worship?
Worship is all about God - His grace, His glory, His attributes, His power, His Word - my worship should be in response to Who God Is and have nothing to do with what I've done, who I am or what my potential may be. We don't glory in our good grades, position or wealth - for it is by the hand of God we have whatever we have.

Other interesting quotes -

In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member receives a definite task to perform for the community, that he may know in hours of doubt that he, too, is not useless and unusable. Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

If I can write an unkind letter,
speak an unkind word,
think an unkind thought without shame and grief,
then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
-Amy Carmichael

When we are weak, then are we strong.
When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
-Charles Hodge, Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

Psalm 147:6-11 says -
"The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground...His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor His delight in the legs of a man; the LORD delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love."

James 4:6 -
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE." (James quotes Proverbs 3:34)

Oh, to be just like that.