January 3, 2011

• The Big Picture

  2011....

  What is the "big picture" of your life?   What metanarrative do you believe that your life fits into, making sense of your life and where you are going afterward?

  Here are six short quotes that describe the metanarrative that I have come to believe; one quote from my Savior, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ.....  and four quotes from John Newton and one quote from Fanny Crosby.

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  Matthew 13
  44"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
  45"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,
  46and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
  -- Jesus Christ

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  "I went one day to Mrs. G---'s, just after she had lost all her fortune. I could not be surprised to find her in tears... but she said, 'I suppose you think I am crying for my loss... but that is not the case; I am now weeping to think I should feel so much uneasiness on the account.' After that I never heard her speak again upon the subject as long as she lived.
  Now this is just as it should be. Suppose a man was going to York to take possession of a large estate, and his chaise should break down a mile before he got to the city, which obliged him to walk the rest of the way; what a fool we would think him, if we saw him wringing his hands, and blubbering out all the remaining mile, 'My chaise is broken! My chaise is broken!'"
  -- John Newton

  This is my story
  This is my song
  Praising my Savior
  All the day long
  -- Fanny Crosby

  "The people of this world are like children. Offer a child an candy and a bank note, he will doubtless choose the candy."
  -- John Newton

  "The heir of a great estate, while a child, thinks more of a few dollars in his pocket than of his inheritance. So a Christian is often more elated by some frame of heart than by his title to glory."
  -- John Newton

  "I feel like a man who has no money in his pocket - but is allowed to draw for all he needs upon one infinitely rich. I am therefore, at once both a beggar and a rich man."
  -- John Newton

   

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