Ministry is supposed to come out of who we are, not what we can do through our spiritual gifts. I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world I believe that God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure. You belong to God. Your life will be different because of this. To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. Allow Him to be the source of all your dreams, joys, and delights, and be careful to go and obey what He has said. To the defiance of the spirit of the age, we must realize that commerce is not the essence of life. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Culture is the sum of examples you set, the incentives you create, and the behaviors you reward: it’s what nudges people to act in ways you’d be proud of.
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