So Many Thoughts, So Little Time (so here are some that are not my own)

Well, there are many-a-posts that are long overdue but in the mean time, I thought I'd share a few of borrowed thoughts. I have a small Bible that I use most of the time around here. Its compactness makes it easy to tote around :) (funny how that works). I recently pulled out my big, study Bible and read through some of the extra bits (quotes) I had with it. I was challenged, encouraged, and convicted. I'd like to share some of them here:

1. (from Beth Moore)
Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ. Sometimes when we finally give up trying to discover all the answers to the "why's" in our lives and decide to trust a sovereign God, unexpected peace washes over us like a summer rain.

2. (from Dr. Tim Stearman)
You will have pampered yourself into mediocrity when you could have lost yourself in immortality.

3. (Beth Moore)
The heart of prayer is moving [our challenges and concerns] from the insecurities and uncertainties of earth to the throne of God. Only then can they be viewed with dependable accuracy and boundless hope.

4. And finally, one of my favorites, from Oswald Chambers, speaking of what the Psalmist implies in the 139th Psalm:

Thou art the God of the early mornings, the God of the late at nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea; but my God, my soul has further horizons than the early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature -- though who are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths. There are motives I cannot trace, dream I cannot get at -- my God, search me out.