Day-off meditations
No I am not in London. I'm starting the year reading Tim Keller's book but wanted a more colorful reminder and not just post a book cover - title of the book is "King's Cross."
I've had a hard time puttting the book down since I started reading it. Over the next four day-off's I will be posting some of the best gleanings I have from the book.
"A self-centered life is a stationary life; it's static, not dynamic. A self-centered person wants to be the center around which everything orbits. I might help people; I might have friends; I might fall in love as long as there's no compromise of my individual interests or whatever meets my needs. I might even give to the poor - as long as it makes me feel good about myself and it does not hinder my lifestyle too much. Self-centeredness makes everything else a means to an end. And at the end the non-negotiable, is whatever I want and whatever I like, my interests over theirs. I'll have fun with people, I'll talk with people but in the end everything orbits around me.
The Trinity is different. Instead of self-centeredness, the Father, the Son and the Spirit are characterized in their very essence by mutually self-giving love. No person in the Trinity insists that the others revolve around him; rather each of them voluntarily circles and orbits around others.
If this is the ultimate reality, if this is what the God who made the universe is like, then this truth bristles and explodes with life-shaping implications for us. If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about."
Lord, give me a sensitive heart knowing full well that my heart is deceitful above all else. That's why I pray -like a needle on a compass that points true north - teach my heart always gravitate towards You as the center. Forgive me when I forget and let me draw near again and again.
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Proverbs 4:23
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