It's a Long Way Down to the Top: A Book for the Comfortable Christian. Questo articolo non è disponibile.It's a Long Way Down to the Top: A Book for the Comfortable Christian

Enter into rest. Where do you come to rest internally? The heart of flesh pumps blood, and the heart of the spirit resides in the mind. True rest must first be in the mind and the heart for the whole person and the whole life to rest. Activity and rest of the body, soul, and spirit are life. In His image the Lord made our life in perfection of purpose, intent, and craftsmanship. Where do you come to rest-in His presence with the extra ingredient of your purpose, intent, and craftsmanship? How do you enter activity-in Him or in you? Are you a citizen of heaven in yearning confident expectation, or an earthling putting down roots? "as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 23:7).

After thirty years as a chef, I was very glad to become Christ's own possession at age fifty. The strongest and deepest of all statements that Jesus revealed to me personally was when I read that a disciple of Christ must be willing to "forsake his own life" (Luke 14:26). My prayer was that this would occur. Eight years later, I began what has become four years as a participant and now a live-in chaplain at a rescue mission in California. My significant transformation as a member of a new family and now as a friend and brother to the broken-hearted and the forgotten has opened my eyes and my pen. I have spent my last few years teaching, counseling, encouraging, and comforting those people who are God's gifts to me, as well as attending Bible college and being grandpa and father to my children and granddaughter, which includes a few Chanterelle trips in the winter and fishing trips in the summer.