Meet Mark: Part 3

Mark Durben, November 10, 2009

A couple weeks ago at Thew, Dareth shared with us His journey in Cambodia and beyond. Two things struck me. First, his statement that rather than trying to do great things for God we should seek to draw closer to Him. It is so easy to focus on the ‘what can I do for God’ rather than to ‘fix our eyes on Jesus’. We have this innate sense that ‘we’ have to do something in order to be worthy. Hebrews follows with ‘the author and perfecter of our faith.’ If Jesus is the author and perfecter of our faith it follows that as we draw near to Him, what we are to do will flow out of that. The disciplines teach us to ‘fix our eyes on Jesus’.

Secondly, his life is a reminder that the Christian life is not an easy life. The disciplines prepare our heart & our mind to be obedient to God’s calling, even when He calls us somewhere we would rather not go.

We often think of the heart as the seat of the emotions but it is really the seat of the will.

The disciplines help us prepare our heart so we can in truth say ‘ not my will but yours be done.”

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Tiffani Lundy on Nov 20, 2009 7:19am

"We often think of the heart as the seat of the emotions but it is really the seat of the will."

this is very encouraging to me and makes this part "not my will but yours be done" more real and life giving instead of restricting.

thank you, Lord, for letting me see your truth.