When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
I just wrapped up another book over the weekend. I don’t know if you’ve ever read anything by John Ortberg, but his books tend to be very practical and encouraging. This one was no different. I enjoyed reading it and I just thought I’d post of few of the things I underlined as I was reading.
“The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.”
“Trusting God means learning to let go of each moment so I am free to fully inhabit the next one.”
“It is possible to have a barn full of money and a boatload of talent and movie star good looks and still be poor.”
“The world gets pretty tired of people who have Christian bumper stickers on their cars, Christian fish signs on their trunks, Christian books on their shelves, Christian stations on their radios, Christian jewelry around their necks, Christian videos for their kids, and Christian magazines for their coffee tables but don’t actually have the life of Jesus in their bones or the love of Jesus in their hearts.”
“The early church did not explode the way it did because people figured out how to reduce worship, prayer, serving, and community to marble-size mini-commitments that fit in around life as usual. Life as usual had to go. And it had to be replaced with something better.”
“God had given each of us a day with the same amount of time, and it is enough time to do what God wants us to do.”
“You are where and who you are for a reason.”
“If we are not completely satisfied with all this world has to offer, perhaps we were made for another world.”
“One of the great illusions of our day is that we can have Jesus’ life without following Jesus’ way.”
Anyway, those are just a few of the thoughts that stuck with me. If you love books that are practical and helpful as strive to follow Christ, then I think this one would be right up your ally.