“[Jonah’s] explosive anger shows that he is willing to discard his relationship with God if he does not get his thing. When you say, ‘I won’t serve you, God, if you don’t give me X,’ then X is your true bottom line, your highest love, your real god, the thing you most trust and rest […]
“Allowing someone access without accountability will eventually lead to abandonment. If I give you unlimited access to me and there’s no accountability, either I’m going to leave the relationship, or you will. . . . If you don’t have clear rules — if you don’t set boundaries for the relationship — then you’ll be ruled […]
“In the grand scheme of things, success is stewardship, and stewardship is success. Simply put, success is doing the best you can with what you have where you are. Potential is God’s gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God. That’s the bottom line.”- Mark Batterson (emphasis author’s) As […]