God’s purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain, but what He pours through us that counts.
It is not that God makes us beautifully rounded grapes, but that He squeezes the sweetness out of us.
Spiritually, we cannot measure our life by success, but only by what God pours through us, and we cannot measure that at all.
By Oswald Chambers, from My Utmost for His Highest
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” As Christ speaks those words, he too is in the wilderness. He speaks them when all is lost. He speaks them when there is nothing even he can hear except for the croak of his own voice and when as far as even he can see there is no God to hear him. And in a way his words are a love song, the greatest love song of them all. In a way his words are the words we all of us must speak before we know what it means to love God as we are commanded to love him.
“My God, my God.” Though God is not there for him to see or hear, he calls on him still because he can do no other. Not even the cross, not even death, not even life, can destroy his love for God. Not even God can destroy his love for God because the love he loves God with is God’s love empowering him to love in return with all his heart even when his heart is all but broken.
Frederick Buechner
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