Rick Warren states: “Paul realized that nothing — no status, no amount of money, no pleasure — is worth more than Jesus.”
How could you and I sit through multiple sermons yet miss the main point? What can we do to insure we are maturing in Christ, not just playing the part of being a Christian? It is so easy to let our minds wander off track, getting fixed on issues that do not matter when compared to eternity. At times I think I should be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder with my lack of disciplined focus. But maybe all of the distractions keep us humble as we seek His glory, not ours. If God removed the distractions, we might be tempted to think His grace and provision would be for our benefit, not His glory.
“Our Lord does not promise to change life for us; He does not promise to remove difficulties and trials and problems and tribulations; He does not say that He is going to cut out all the thorns and leave the roses with their wonderful perfume. No; He faces life realistically, and tells us that these are things to which the flesh is heir, and which are bound to come. But He assures us that we can so know Him that, whatever happens, we need never be frightened, we need never be alarmed.” - Martyn Lloyd Jones
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