Good Wednesday Morning!!!

1. Question – Is there someone you always wanted to read about but never found the time? (I always heard about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and now I read about him. Awesome man! I hope to meet him someday.)

2. Thought from The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Michael Van Dyke:

Dietrich found himself waking up most mornings with a prayer on his lips. He was praying more than ever before, yet he felt no special sense of God’s presence in the prison. He only felt his responsibility to be a man of God and, if necessary, to suffer where God had placed him. He was starting to think that true faith did not involve feelings at all – that it was instead the God-given ability to respond in love to the world as it was. Faith was no escape hatch from the power of evil men; true faith often placed one directly in the grip of evil. Hadn’t Jesus Himself provided a demonstration of this truth?

[Don’t know about you, but when I read, ‘that true faith did not involve feelings at all – that it was instead the God-given ability to respond in love to the world as it was.’ I jumped. Faith is not a feeling – Plain as day!!! Makes ya think about faith!! My ‘feel good religion’ went away and my reasoning set in and I got a glimpse of where Bonhoeffer was going with this thought. He’s onto something here. Wonderful – Just wonderful!]

​”Why do you waste your time praying for these animals? They certainly don’t reciprocate your goodwill.”

“I don’t pray for them in order to gain their friendship,” Dietrich answered.​