one love

If I live how people want me to live and live by expectations people set on me, I’m subject to living under the thumb of an easily swayed influence. I’m tired of being exhausted in the simple aspect of convincing myself that things are right/wrong, good/bad, but I want to live my life for the glory of the Lord and live with my passion for Him. I’ve hurt friends, girls, myself, and my greatest mentors in a stupid pursuit of what is false to me.

Let truth govern influence.

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Matthew 19:16-

We are but clinging to our flesh…we are the rich young rulers. our mandate is to love the Lord and reach the nations, but how can I possibly display a beautiful, humble, glorious Lord when He is undefined as such in my life. Only with Him can I become new, only through Him can I glorify the Lord.

Time to man up, Brandon.

William Carey

“expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.”
                                                          -William Carey

As I read the stories of these young movements in missions history, there’s a tremendous pressure on my shoulders to do something great for the Lord. I know the Lord isn’t glorified necessarily by our terms of  ’greatness’, but I have to remember that God is great, therefore I am a prime instrument of greatness for His Kingdom and Glory. I am willing.

“We keep talking about the second coming…half the world hasn’t heard of the first.” 
                                                         -Oswald J. Smith

Bored? Google these people’s stories:
            William Carey
            Samuel Mills
            Hudson Taylor
            C.T. Studd
            Cameron Townsend
            Lottie Moon
            John Wesley
            Count Zinzendorf
            Jim Elliot
            William Borden

                        

still brew.