“One time, after a weekend message, a leader came up to see me. He told me that something I said in he message had really resonated with him and his wife. He said that in the past two years, they’d been running really hard and really fast. They had paid off their house, which was their dream. But then for some reason, it wasn’t enough. They wanted more. And they decided they needed a bigger house. And that decision, he told me, initiated an  unraveling of their lives. The need to support the much bigger house with the much bigger mortgage was driving them into the ground. They were working sixty to eighty hours a week, and the bills were still piling up. They were now one million dollars in debt. He said they sat together at the service that morning and realized they were chasing after the wind. They had racked up incredible debt to support their more lavish lifestyle. He was a real-estate agent. And in my message that day I had talked about how my friends in real estate had to buy their Mercedes or their BMW to project an image of success to their clients. He told me, “Dave when you said that, you were talking right to me, because on my desk I have a picture of a BMW I want to buy. It was my motivation to work harder.”

As this young man, with his dear wife at his side, shared with me, the Holy Spirit was using them to communicate something to me. When he talked about the picture of the BMW on his desk, something took root inside me. I asked myself “What is my BMW? What picture have I placed on my desk? What really motivates me to do the things I do?”" 

I am still working my way through this one. I just wanted to get this out there.

Thoughts???

-Soren Kierkegaard (taken from “The Monkey and the Fish” by Dave Gibbons)

This quote caught my eye for many reasons. We [Christians] need to stop pretending that we don’t understand what God and the Bible are telling us. For that matter, many people need to just start reading the Bible. I believe that many of us [Christians] are up to our eyeballs in sin and we don’t want to give it up. So, we just don’t do anything. Wheather it’s reading, listening, praying etc., we stay away from any of these practices in fear of understanding what God wants from us or for us. The truth is, as soon as we start being attentive to God and his message to us, we are “obliged to act accordingly.”