One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the purpose and meaning that faith brings to daily life.
In this quote, Charles Colson expresses how his Christian faith provides him with a clear sense of purpose and significance in his daily actions. He reflects on the assurance that his life has meaning as he seeks to live fully through his beliefs and contribute to a greater cause, specifically, the advancement of the Kingdom of God. This perspective allows him to approach each day with intention and fulfillment, knowing that his efforts are aligned with his spiritual convictions.
In practice
During a church service when discussing living with purpose.
The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.
Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.
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