Thoughts on Grace - You Get What you Want
His name was Midas.
Midas was a good and kind king. For his kindness and forgiveness He was granted one wish. The king thought for only a second and then said "I wish for everything I touch to turn to gold." And so it was.
The beautiful flowers in his garden turned toward the sun for light, but when Midas approached and touched them, they stood rigid and gold. His lovely daughter, at his loving touch, turned hard and fast to gold. His water, his bed, his clothes, his friends, and eventually the whole palace was gold. The king grew hungry and thin, for each time he tried to eat, he found that his meal had turned to gold.
And he starved to death.
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Ever have an intense desire for something? Have you ever been filled with the certainty, that a single accomplishment, a single possession, a status that you reach was the single important piece of the puzzle that you had been missing?
Be careful what you wish for.
You may get what you want, but at what cost?
If you desire a close group of friends, a knit group of partners, what will the cost be? Count the cost. If you desire to fit into a group to be loved and known, what will you pay? Will you pay with your morals? With your character?
And if you desire material possessions, what will you trade for them? Your precious patience? Your contentment? Your calm manor?
So becareful of your strong wants. Even becareful of strongly desiring knowledge. Who knows what you will lose because of your pursuit?
12Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3
Summary - Learn from Midas. Don't let your desires starve you. You are what you desire, desire to be perfected by God.
Midas was a good and kind king. For his kindness and forgiveness He was granted one wish. The king thought for only a second and then said "I wish for everything I touch to turn to gold." And so it was.
The beautiful flowers in his garden turned toward the sun for light, but when Midas approached and touched them, they stood rigid and gold. His lovely daughter, at his loving touch, turned hard and fast to gold. His water, his bed, his clothes, his friends, and eventually the whole palace was gold. The king grew hungry and thin, for each time he tried to eat, he found that his meal had turned to gold.
And he starved to death.
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Ever have an intense desire for something? Have you ever been filled with the certainty, that a single accomplishment, a single possession, a status that you reach was the single important piece of the puzzle that you had been missing?
Be careful what you wish for.
You may get what you want, but at what cost?
If you desire a close group of friends, a knit group of partners, what will the cost be? Count the cost. If you desire to fit into a group to be loved and known, what will you pay? Will you pay with your morals? With your character?
And if you desire material possessions, what will you trade for them? Your precious patience? Your contentment? Your calm manor?
So becareful of your strong wants. Even becareful of strongly desiring knowledge. Who knows what you will lose because of your pursuit?
12Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3
Summary - Learn from Midas. Don't let your desires starve you. You are what you desire, desire to be perfected by God.
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