Perfect Freedom- Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller- Perfect Freedom

"When we come to Christ, we come with unbelievably small ambitions we want inner peace. We want a little reorientation, we want a little pick up, we want to feel like our life matters. We want some inspiration. But boy oh boy there’s a lot more to it than that:


'Imagine yourself as a living house yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.  If we let him, He well make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less.' -C.S. Lewis

Get rid of your low goals. Stop saying, If I become a Christian will I have to stop doing this or that? Will I still be able to do this? Anticipate that you will not be able to anticipate the magnitude of the changes that when they begin to come you’ll be so grateful for but they’re way beyond anything you could ever dare ask or think. Nor when are you getting started is your mind open enough and alive enough and frankly spiritually smart enough to know what it is you need. " -Timothy Keller

That last paragraph put into words what I could not.  Everyday I'm blown away.