Our desires and emotions can quickly cloud our objectivity.
It’s not a matter of talking about salt and light nearly as much as actually being salt and light. It’s a lifestyle that forgoes condemning and criticizing the world and chooses to bless it instead.
Things like good health and strong relationships are gifts from God, and we honor him by stewarding them well. Yet if they become the focus of our lives, we are in danger of missing our calling.
Often when God chooses us to do something great, our initial response is to resist.
By Charles R. Swindoll, excerpted from What If . . .
