Quotes about Fulfillment

Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God.

Much of the disappointment and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.

This passage is saying, "Make the most of every area in which God has placed you." Are you single, married, retired, parent, child, friend, employer, employee, student, or grandparent?

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Our purpose is to get what we want, but God's purpose is to give us what we really need.

The gospel gap in many of our lives doesn't stay empty either. If we do not live with a gospel-shaped, Christ-confident, and change-committed Christianity, that hole will get filled with other things. These things may seem plausible and even biblical, but they will be missing the identity-provision-process core that is meant to fill every believer.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.