Live courageously from your heart!
When I was going through some dark valleys during my divorce, one of the foundational resources that I discovered was a book by Andrew Murray simply called Humility. This is a book that does not sit on my bookshelf and collect dust, it is a book that I read again and again. Since then I have become inspired by the wisdom what this man shares.
Here are 10 of my favorite quotes from Andrew Murray.
Wanted to share a page of of my journal from April of 2007…
A little bit of the backdrop here…I was in the middle of going through divorce and these words are “as written” and not edited.
During conversations with my Heavenly Father I often ask for Him to reveal more of Himself to me and to speak to my heart. So often, I have found that He does reveal Himself in our lives and He does speak to our hearts, but we simply miss it in all of our business; we don’t listen. Well, recently I guess I was at a place where I was ready to listen because He spoke to my heart loud and clear and I hear Him. I have to tell you that it was a tough word for me to receive, but it was a word that I needed to hear.
Have you ever paused and thought about the following story found in Matthew 17:24 -27?
After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”
“Yes, he does,” he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”
“From others,” Peter answered.
“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
Coins from the mouth of a fish? What?
Seems like a crazy story doesn’t it?
Recently watched the movie Gladiator, which is in my top five favorites along side Braveheart, Last of The Mohicans and Passion of the Christ.
For those who have not seen this epic movie, here is a brief walk through of the movie.
The movie is set in the second century A.D. and tells the epic story of a warrior from Spain called Maximus. He is a commanding general of the Roman armies and is adored by his men and by the aging emperor Marcus Aurelius. The plot thickens when the emperor’s son Commodus learns of his fathers plan to make Maximus keeper of Rome so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate.
Before Marcus can name his successor, Commodus devastated my the disapproval and love of his father strangles him and declares himself emperor. When Maximus doesn’t acknowledge Commodus as emporor, Commodus sentenced Maximus to death and his wife and son to crucifixion and burning.
Don’t let your trials blow you down; Let then lift you up.
