Thursday, October 06, 2005

Diddly-Squat

Here's my dominant thought from the AM sessions at Catalyst: a sense of entitlement is the beginning of the end spiritually.

The second we feel like we deserve anything we're in over our heads. I blogged a thought a few weeks ago: without God we're Jack Squat. I had a correllary thought during this morning's sessions. Here it is: we don't deserve diddly-squat.

That's my spiritual starting point. I don't deserve diddly-squat. When you start there then you recognize the reality of James 1:17--every good and perfect gift comes from God.

Until we get to the point where we recogize that we know nothing and are nothing without God then we're useless. You become useful when you recognize that you're useless.

Diddly-squat.

3 Comments:

At October 06, 2005 4:26 PM, Blogger Pat Thomas said...

Actually Pastor Mark, we do deserve something: death & hell. But thanks be to God for Jesus taking our place!

 
At October 06, 2005 6:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

On my computer, the "Evotional.com" banner is covering up Pastor Mark's head. Is this a my computer problem or is a web site problem?

 
At October 06, 2005 10:36 PM, Blogger Mark Batterson said...

Count your blessings :)

I think it's a your computer issue.

 

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