Running the Good Race

"If you're gonna give your life for One Thing, and you start dialing in on the fact that you have about 5 seconds on this planet and if you wanna make it count, you gotta make it count for the One Thing that counts the most."

- Louie Giglio

If I live until the ripe old age of 80...

A quarter of my life has just passed me by.

It has never been clearer to me that this life is going to fly by.

A flower quickly fading, a wave tossed in the ocean, a vapour in the wind.

I don't want the story of my life to be that I arrived at the end safely and in mint condition.

I want to arrive at the end battered and bruised and scarred because I wasn't afraid to try and fail and try again, to get hurt and humiliated and rejected.

I want to arrive at the end limping victorious, with nothing left because I held nothing back, spent it all for the cause of Christ.

Father, help me.

'Cos I can't do it on my own. At all.

And I know You don't expect me to.

Thank You.

I Stand Here in Awe of You.

For from Him 

and through Him 

and to Him 

are all things.

To Him be the glory,

forever and ever.

Amen.

- Romans 11

"For from this God, everything came from Him. And through Him, everything's happening through this God. And everything has a terminal point and it is at the feet of this God. From Him, through Him and to Him are everything that's ever happened on the face of the planet. Everything originates in God, is sustained by God and terminates in God. So I've got an idea, why don't we give Him ALL the glory, for time's sake, forever and ever, AMEN!"

- Louie Giglio

Pride is such an illusion.

The most deceptive of all sins.

What do I have that was not given to me?

Nothing. Not a thing.

He is everything.

So without Him,

I am nothing.