Coffee and Tea with Me

God is Sovereign. He is in total control. In His sovereign plan He has ordained that man do the good works He has planned for him to do. Man must trust in God’s Sovereignty as he does the work he is responsible to do. He must come under the authority of God’s Word and under God’s grace. Then he is truly free to do the works God has called him to do. The man who thinks he doesn’t need to depend on God is blinded by pride. He thinks he is strong enough and doing great works on his own without Christ, but he is truly weak. It is when we recognize we are weak and needy people who need to depend on Christ that we are truly strong. In fact as Elisabeth Elliot says, you must be dependent on Christ to truly be His disciple. Elisabeth Elliot says in her book Discipline: The Glad Surrender, “Jesus, in response to the will of the Father, demonstrated what it means to be fully human when He took upon Himself the form of a man and in so doing voluntarily and gladly chose both dependence and...

How do you define success? In the world’s standards, climbing the ladder to make more money, have more prestige, power and fame; is success. But as a Christian, Christ’s standards are just the opposite. He tells us to die to ourselves, lose your self for Christ, let others be first and you last. To be great in the kingdom of God is to do His commandments. Matt 5:19-20 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. NKJV             Without the sacrifice of Christ, I would be pursuing my own glorification, but because Of Christ, I have been transformed and now I am pursuing God’s glory.             C. J. Mahaney puts it well in his book, Humility True Greatness “Consider your own life fo...