"Truth is revealed, not discovered. Truth finds you more than you find Truth. Truth brings about humility, not pride. People who know Truth are more in tune with what they don't know then what they do know. Knowing Truth brings about freedom. Living in Truth is freedom. Truth is not explained by us. Instead, Truth explains us. We don't examine Truth. Truth examines us."
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
The audio below is quite long (52 mins) and is aimed at people planting churches, but a lot of the stuff he says, especially about the verses above, is applicable to any Christian and worth listening to... Darrin Patrick, cultivating a culture of repentance (download here)
"Worship is about God: "From him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever" -Romans 11:36.
From him: Everything is from God. He is the creator.
Through him: Nothing happens that surprises God. He is sovereign. He is in control of the smallest details of our lives.
To him: All worship terminates in him. He is the goal of worship, not us. We won't be worried about feeling God's presence in heaven. Yet, we will still worship.
Worship is about us as well. It is about us offering all that we are as a living sacrifice (the verse that follows Romans 11:36) all the time. We see and give glory to God by surrendering our lives to the one who gave us life, the one who is working in all of our circumstances, the one who one day will be the focus of all of creation. Don't worship worship. Worship the three-in-one God."
