Ryan Hall shares a workout and his teammate Josh Cox shares thoughts on how to glorify God with our talents (in this case running). Sermon excerpts courtesy of First Assembly of God in Elkton, Maryland.
If you love God or choose to love yourself instead, you will suffer in this life. We are responsible for our attitude in the circumstances we face. If you are paralyzed, you better glorify God. If you are an orphan, you better glorify God. If you are a national champion, you better glorify God. If you glorify God or hate God, God will be just fine...the difference is what your circumstance will yield due to your attitude. I am so thankful that I can see God's love even in my pain!
@oldpiq First, I never wrote that we were submerged under a nightmarish economic abyss, but if we were...and you are right... it is a real paradox to have free will to act into God's law... but is it less a paradox to live in free societies, but be forced to act in conformity of laws ? At the end, thanks for your answer !
@oldpiq Your argument seems valid, only to a certain extent. You are asking to scientifically validate the existence of our Lord. However, you are asking that using the scientific methods we have right now to do so...the same way the scientific methods during their respective time frames believed there were only four elements or that the earth was flat. Running to glorify God is running for our faith...a belief.
@XCTRACKCoach I appreciate the effort in trying to convince me that running and apparently everything else indeed should glorify God. I should mention however that before you do that, you should first demonstrate that the very existence of God is indeed true. Otherwise your claim is no different from saying that you run for Bigfoot.
@jaycarbon Well, if God handed me a mop, I would probably reject his offer and maybe go to school instead. First you have to believe something exists to glorify it doing whatever you do. But if you do things only to please your daddy, you are indeed a very unhappy creature.
@oldpiq There is no silly job. If we were in the bottom of a nightmarish economic abyss, you would feel being cherished to get pay to take a mop... but, it seems to me, that in the Bible there is something written about freedom to take decisions... but, this is rarely respected by vivid religious people or by solid socialist who are atheists .
The result of course would be that they will perform terribly. But why? They have the backing of a sky god. Or will you try to rationalize why they would perform terribly(even though we are led to believe they have "gifts") by saying something along the lines of: "Well, they have gifts but they have to do special activities to use them and chant some particular phrases to unlock their full potential, etc." or something to that effect?
