Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 2, 2007 10:50:17 GMT -5
June 22, 2006
I have been reading/praying over the requests that have come in for this week and am humbled at the realization of the level of trials many of you are experiencing. And yet, if I’ve learned anything through the years, it’s that LIFE ISN’T FAIR…BUT GOD IS GOOD. When we stay focused on that great truth, it puts everything into eternal perspective.
I’d like to share a quote with you from Chuck Colson, one that has so impacted me when it comes to maintaining that necessary eternal perspective. He said, “The kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”
That’s not a real popular message, and it certainly isn’t a “feel good” one, but it’s absolutely true, and it reminds me of the words of the late E.V. Hill: “This ain’t it!” I personally love my life, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t trials and heartaches in the midst of it. But all that we experience here is temporal, and with each passing year I become more appreciative of the invitation to “grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
Like all the other pilgrims on this planet, we writers live in a temporal world, but God has called us to an eternal perspective. Whether we write fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or historical novels, books for children, teens, or adults, may our words reflect that eternal perspective to our readers that they might better understand that “the best is yet to be.”
“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:2-4).
(C) KATHI MACIAS
www.kathimacias.com
I have been reading/praying over the requests that have come in for this week and am humbled at the realization of the level of trials many of you are experiencing. And yet, if I’ve learned anything through the years, it’s that LIFE ISN’T FAIR…BUT GOD IS GOOD. When we stay focused on that great truth, it puts everything into eternal perspective.
I’d like to share a quote with you from Chuck Colson, one that has so impacted me when it comes to maintaining that necessary eternal perspective. He said, “The kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”
That’s not a real popular message, and it certainly isn’t a “feel good” one, but it’s absolutely true, and it reminds me of the words of the late E.V. Hill: “This ain’t it!” I personally love my life, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t trials and heartaches in the midst of it. But all that we experience here is temporal, and with each passing year I become more appreciative of the invitation to “grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.”
Like all the other pilgrims on this planet, we writers live in a temporal world, but God has called us to an eternal perspective. Whether we write fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or historical novels, books for children, teens, or adults, may our words reflect that eternal perspective to our readers that they might better understand that “the best is yet to be.”
“Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:2-4).
(C) KATHI MACIAS
www.kathimacias.com