"What's true in jogging is true in faith. God has a great race for you to run. Under his care you will go where you've never been and serve in ways you've never dreamed. But you have to drop some stuff. How can you share grace if you are full of guilt? How can you offer comfort if you are disheartened? How can you life someone else's load if your arms are full with your own?"In the second chapter he talks about how in verse one David uses the word Yahweh. Yahweh is my sheperd.
Yahweh is an unchanging, uncaused, and an ungoverned God."Why Yahweh? Yahweh is God's name. You can call me preacher or writer or half-baked golfer - these things are accurate descriptions, but these aren't my names. I might call you dad, mom, doctor, or student, and those terms may describe you, but they aren't your name. If you want to call me my by my name, say Max. If I call you by your name, I say it. And if you want to call God by his name, say Yahweh."
"You and I are governed. The weather determines what we wear. The terrain tells us how to travel. Gravity dictates our speed, and health determines our strength. We may challenge these forces and alter them slightly, but we never remove them.
God - our sheperd - doesn't check the weather; he makes it. He doesn't defy gravity; he created it. He isn't affected by health; he has no body. Since he has no body, he has no limitations - equally active in Cambodia as he is in Connecticut."
"You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of the Pacific."
"We humans wants to do things our way. Forget the easy way. Forget the common way. Forget the best way. Forget God's way. We want to do things our way."
"If your happiness comes from something you deposit, drive, drink, or digest, then face it - you are in prison, the prison of want."
"Who you are has nothing to do with the clothes you wear or the car you drive."
"Contentment comes when we can honestly say with Paul 'I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have...I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty' (Philippians 4:11-12)"
"We see the waves of the water rather than the Savior walking through them. We focus on our paltry provisions rather than on the One who can feed five thousand hungry people. We concentrate on the dark Fridays of crucifixion and miss the bright Sundays of resurrection."I've been reading this book non-stop since I bought it for 3 dollars at a general store by my grandma's house. It's good. It's practical. It makes sense. It's funny. It's convicting. It warms your heart and breaks it all in one chapter. It's Max Lucado.
It brings back your focus to the only thing that matters - God. And that, my friends, is a very good thing.
So I recommend this book highly. Traveling Light by Max Lucado. Read it. It's good.
The end. Have a nice day.
