A typical question. I have a friend who says he doesn’t want to become a Christian because he’d have to give up drinking. The speaker was showing how to talk to people without arguing. Fine, tell him every morning to get his bottle out and set it on the kitchen table and worship it. Bow down to it, talk to it, ask for its help during the day. Because that’s what he’s really doing, trusting it above all else.
Afterwards, a friend was telling me about recently moving to this area and how hard it was on his daughter. All she knew was what she was leaving behind. She had no way to imagine what was to come, how what she was leaving behind would be replaced.
"The Lord Jesus wins my heart in His humiliation; He satisfies it in His glory. A won heart is not necessarily a satisfied heart. But if a heart is truly won by the Lord Jesus it never will be satisfied without Him. No heart that is won is ever satisfied but in the company of the One who won it. Absence does not 'make the heart grow fonder'! You only discover in absence what you have gained in presence. "—Hungry Heart #7–19
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