Do Not Grow Weary! (Yet I am.)
My heart hurts very much sometimes. And it's hard to tell if it's hurting because I desire to get married, or if it's left over pain from Josh. Either way, it's very hard sometimes. And trying to be patient is hard. Life is hard.
We all make a god out of what we take the most pleasure in. Christian Hedonists want to make God their God by seeking after the greatest pleasure-pleasure in him.
By Christian Hedonism, we do not mean that our happiness is the highest good. We mean that pursuing the highest good will always result in our greatest happiness in the end. We should pursue this happiness, and pursue it with all our might. The desire to be happy is a proper motive for every good deed, and if you abandon the pursuit of your own joy you cannot love man or please God. Taken from This Website, written by John Piper.
Even though it's hard, I know that I'm working towards the highest good and highest happiness by persevering. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Gal 6:9.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Heb 12:2-3.
I feel recently, that I'm spending a lot of time reminding myself to set my heart on things above: Which is encouraging and helpful! But as I'm unsatisfied with this life, I'm looking forward to the next. Which is appropriate really.
We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. "How he's grown!" we exclaim, "How time flies!", as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined, one day, to become a dry animal. C.S Lewis
Check out this song at youtube. You need to get past the first third which is them going do-ray-me-far-so-la-ti-do appropriately. But it's a good song with good lyrics. Farewell vain world I'm going home,
my saviour smiles and bids me come
and I don't care to stay here long.
Sweet angels beckon me away
to sing God's praise in endless day
and I don't care to stay here long!
So in conclusion: life is hard, I feel weary. But I mustn't grow weary because I belong to another county, to another Kingdom that is home. I should work hard towards that goal because when I get there, there's going to be a huge party and I'm getting a great reward that is currently being stored up for me. That's exciting.
Please Father, strengthen me to run this race before me. Let me honour you with the work I've been given now so that I will be your good and faithful servant. I know that marriage is a blessing for this life only, but I would very much like to be blessed with it. Please help me not to take this gift of singleness now sullenly, but use it to serve you and make this time useful - that I would grow and honour you by becoming more like Jesus. Amen.
We all make a god out of what we take the most pleasure in. Christian Hedonists want to make God their God by seeking after the greatest pleasure-pleasure in him.
By Christian Hedonism, we do not mean that our happiness is the highest good. We mean that pursuing the highest good will always result in our greatest happiness in the end. We should pursue this happiness, and pursue it with all our might. The desire to be happy is a proper motive for every good deed, and if you abandon the pursuit of your own joy you cannot love man or please God. Taken from This Website, written by John Piper.
Even though it's hard, I know that I'm working towards the highest good and highest happiness by persevering. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Gal 6:9.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Heb 12:2-3.
I feel recently, that I'm spending a lot of time reminding myself to set my heart on things above: Which is encouraging and helpful! But as I'm unsatisfied with this life, I'm looking forward to the next. Which is appropriate really.
We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. "How he's grown!" we exclaim, "How time flies!", as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed; unless of course the fish were destined, one day, to become a dry animal. C.S Lewis
Check out this song at youtube. You need to get past the first third which is them going do-ray-me-far-so-la-ti-do appropriately. But it's a good song with good lyrics. Farewell vain world I'm going home,
my saviour smiles and bids me come
and I don't care to stay here long.
Sweet angels beckon me away
to sing God's praise in endless day
and I don't care to stay here long!
So in conclusion: life is hard, I feel weary. But I mustn't grow weary because I belong to another county, to another Kingdom that is home. I should work hard towards that goal because when I get there, there's going to be a huge party and I'm getting a great reward that is currently being stored up for me. That's exciting.
Please Father, strengthen me to run this race before me. Let me honour you with the work I've been given now so that I will be your good and faithful servant. I know that marriage is a blessing for this life only, but I would very much like to be blessed with it. Please help me not to take this gift of singleness now sullenly, but use it to serve you and make this time useful - that I would grow and honour you by becoming more like Jesus. Amen.