Thoughts On Eternity

Matthew 11:30

My yoke is easy and my burden is light.

There are many other and "better" ways to receive the reward of happiness apart from Christ than to do what he calls easy and light. However, the joy and life that we are promised by Christ Jesus is not the "happiness" that we know of without him. Compared to the immeasurable joy that we receive from Christ, his yoke is easy and his burden is light. This is especially true when we realize that Christ Jesus is taking in excess of 99% of the burden. We are not called to follow Jesus on our own strength. We are encouraged and given strength by the Holy Spirit.

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God does what glorifies himself. If giving me life glorifies him, then he will give me life. The moment that my receiving his life no longer glorifies Him, I will stop receiving his life. The moment that my not receiving God's life is glorifying to Him then I will stop receiving God's life.


Our usefulness for God in a certain area is not dependent on our skill or preparedness. It is dependent on our dependence on God.

I am reading "In Our Joy" by John Piper. So far it has been amazing!!! Here is the description of it and the page where you can download the PDF for free.
http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/online-books/in-our-joy

This pocket-sized discipleship book was designed to encourage and challenge professing Christians to truly and fully follow Christ. It is a selection of chapters from John Piper's book What Jesus Demands from the World.

What would compel a man to sell everything he has in order to buy an open field? An overwhelming joy arising from his knowing that treasure is buried in it.

Jesus compared his kingdom to these circumstances. When we face the hard road of suffering and sacrifice to which Jesus beckons us, we act just like the man who found a treasure hidden in a field. In our joy we are able to sell all that we have and walk with Jesus along the Calvary road.

Join John Piper as he describes the cost of following Jesus, and the supreme joy which sustains believers every step of the way.