Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along time a ago.

- Warren Buffet

We tend to think of the immediate payoff when deciding what to do next.  What will have an immediate effect?  What will bring me immediate pleasure, immediate reward, immediate satisfaction, immediate recognition, immediate results?

Nothing big would ever be accomplished if we all thought this way. Take the long view.

(posted by Matt Heerema)

Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. Evangelical humiliation is a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousnesss, with an answerable frame of heart.

Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise on Religious Affections

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As long as we imagine we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

A.W. Tozer

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