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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Devotion
Measure
Main
Simply
Life
Devotional

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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to seeking first the kingdom.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters call me to be my best self appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
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