A trillion years of Love...
Dr. Rick Warren
A rare Leader and one to emulate...
There are very few men on this earth I truly wish to emulate. So few understand True Loving Leadership. Rick Warren is one of those men I wish to emulate. I have known this man for over twenty years and watched him apply Christ's principles on the back plane of Agape Love. I am stunned and in awe of this man's understanding of the true and Biblical "Law of Attraction." I see so many flock to these books and DVD's around the "Law of Attraction," believing they can "name it and claim it" and then watch it not work for them. I'm pretty sure this is because it is not what you claim, it is where you are claiming it from and why you are claming. In other words is it from the desire of Love, just and only because of Love? Honoring the the supreme Commandment of Love? Or is it for some personal gain or satisfaction? I have to ask myself that every day.
That is because it is not about me...
That is because it is not about you...
But it is about us...
It's about us practicing Christ's profound Love in all we think, do and say.
It is so we become radiant beacons of Christ's Love.
I have seen Rick practice Christ's Love for many years and the rest is profound history. He is the most radiant beacon of Love I have yet to meet.
Rick Warren Speaks Out
In an interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren,
author of "The Purpose Driven Life," Rick Warren said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond, In
a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last
forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my
heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but
not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am
going to spend trillion of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act, the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth
what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for
God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one or you're getting ready to go into another
one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your
character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your
life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be
reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life.
The goal is to grow in character, in Christ-likeness...I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you got to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or...you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the easiest ways to get arid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others...
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the
bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good
is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when
the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for you to own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do,
Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our
lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan - to plant churches, equip leaders,assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions?
Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done
today, I want to know You more and love You better ....
God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings...
Rick Warren
* These statements have not been evaluated by any religious or governing agency and
are not intended to influence, coerce or impose on anyone. The information contained herein is for familial, philosophical and Spiritual purposes only and are for sharing Love only. To the best of our ability, this is also Biblically correct. It is not a spiritual admonition (other than the direct references to Christ's teachings, of whom we try implicitly to honor) and are not intended to replace the advice or directives of spiritual or psychological professionals. We limit our understanding to what we understand: The One Directive: Love yourself and others as we are loved by Christ, and for the same reasons.
It's not what you want; it's from where you want it. So want well...
...whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. Philippians 4:8
"I will give the best of my LOVE, always, everywhere, and to everyone, and I will do so Now.” “I CHOOSE, LOVE NOW”
No one falls in love by choice, it is by CHANCE. No one stays in love by chance, it is by WORK. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by CHOICE
