reflections

Beware of worshipping Jesus as the Son of God, and professing your faith in Him as the Savior of the world, while you blaspheme Him by the complete evidence in your daily life that He is powerless to do anything in and through you.
~ Oswald Chambers

Joy

We Praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise. If we were not allowed to speak of what we value and celebrate what we love and praise what we admire, our joy would not be full. So if God loves us enough to make our joy full, He must not only give us himself; He must also win from us the praise of our hearts—not because He needs to shore up some weakness in Himself or compensate for some deficiency, but because He loves us and seeks the fullness of our joy that can be found only in knowing and praising Him, the most magnificent of all Beings. If He is truly for us, He must be for Himself! -John Piper

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. – C.S Lewis

Buffet

There once was a man who made a buffet restaurant. It was all you can eat. He gave each customer a certain amount of time that they could get food from the different buffet tables. Since he also made all the food, he wanted to give the best of each buffet section to the customers he loved, so he wrote some instructions and gave them to his customers. He wrote menus that said, "Eat these things! They are truly good. Do not eat these things, they just make you sick." He also told people when to partake of some foods, informing them that some foods are only good for the person at certain points in the meal. Eventually some people took things into their own hands and said, “Who is this owner man to tell me what to do? He doesn’t know best. He just likes making dumb rules. I’ll eat what I want, when I want.” Soon after eating some of the foods, they began to get sick and rot from the inside out.