Outpost 17

GENESIS 38-40 / MATTHEW 12:22-50

“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”

― Martin Luther

GENESIS 31-32 / MATTHEW 10:24-42

“God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.”

― John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

GENESIS 25-26 / MATTHEW 9:1-17

You stumble through your days

Got your head hung low

Your skies' a shade of grey

Like a zombie in a maze

You're asleep inside

But you can shake away

'Cause you're just a dead man walking

Thinking that's your only option

But you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day

Sun is up and the color's blinding

Take the world and redefine it

Leave behind your narrow mind

You'll never be the same..."

GENESIS 23-24 / MATTHEW 8

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

GENESIS 15-17 / MATTHEW 5:27-48

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

GENESIS 12-14 / MATTHEW 5:1-26

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

EZEKIEL 45-46 / 2 PETER 3

“When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart”

― Gordon B. Hinckley

EZEKIEL 34-35 / 1 PETER 2

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

EZEKIEL 7-9 / HEBREWS 10:24-39

“It would seem that 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.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

EZEKIAL 1-3 / HEBREWS 9

“To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!”

― W. Ian Thomas