Quotes about Me (and you)

Recently I have been reading through John Ortberg's book The Me I Want to Be. It's a great book that teaches us that "life is not about any particular achievement or experience. The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become." It's a process of discovering who we really are and how to live a life of vitality through Christ.

Here are some highlighted marks in my book:

• Your spiritual life is not limited to certain devotional activities. It is receiving power from the Spirit of God to become the person God had in mind when He created you - His handiwork
• God desires our lives to flourish - to receive life from outside yourself, creating vitality within yourself and producing blessing beyond yourself
• Comparison kills spiritual growth
• The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. There is an enormous difference between following rules and following Jesus, because I can follow rules without cultivating the right heart
• There are always next steps in our lives
• When my primary focus is being present with God, everything else has a way of falling in place
• Self-improvement is no more God's plan than self-salvation
• The only way to become the person God made you to be is to live with the Spirit of God flowing through you like a river of living water (Genesis 2:10)
• Sign of flowing is a sense of God-given vitality and joyful aliveness overflowing in you
• A generic plan for spiritual growth will frustrate you
• Spiritual growth is hand-crafted, not mass produced
• Where the Spirit is, there is freedom
• Every moment is a chance to live in the flow of the Spirit

Think on these things...