A thought by Max Lucado (2011-05-02) from his book, Cure for the Common Life (p. 19). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Earlier Max said something that seems to contradict this. He said, “You cannot be anything you want to be.” He says, “Secular thinking, as a whole, doesn’t buy this. Secular society sees no author behind the book, no architect behind the house, no purpose behind or beyond life. Society sees no bag and certainly never urges you to unpack one. It simply says, ‘You can be anything you want to be.’ Be a butcher if you want to, a sales rep if you like. Be an ambassador if you really care. You can be anything you want to be. If you work hard enough. But can you? If God didn’t pack within you the meat sense of a butcher, the people skills of a salesperson, or the world vision of an ambassador, can you be one? An unhappy, dissatisfied one perhaps. But a fulfilled one? No. Can an acorn become a rose, a whale
Continuing a thought from a book I am reading...