“What was behind these people’s pursuit of Christ? What did they really want? I do not believe that they pursued Christ out of a humble submission to his messiahship and a willingness to follow Him wherever he would lead. Their pursuit of Christ was born instead out of a love for self and the hope that Christ would be the one who would meet their felt needs. They were excited about following the King – but for all the wrong reasons.

“I am afraid that many of us respond to Jesus in the same way. What moves and motivates everything we do is not a submission to God’s will and a burning desire for his glory, but our own set of personal desires and dreams. We are excited about the King because we see him as the most efficient delivery system for those dreams. You can tell what really excites us when we fall into discouragement and grumbling, when He does not deliver the ‘good’ that we want. The lips that once praised now complain, and the lips that once encouraged now accuse. To avoid this we must learn to ask, Whose dream are we really pursuing? Which bread do we really want? Here again this struggle of the heart will shape the communication of our lips.”

This book is so convicting.
Women’s Oasis bible study meets at church on Tuesdays at 7:30 PM ~ come!