Monday, November 21

You cannot jump out of your skin

All things are intrinsically made to work in Christ’s way, and, if they do, they work well. The discovery of that fact is going to be the greatest adventure of the future. If we were created by Christ and for Christ, then he is inescapable. You cannot jump out of your skin. If you revolt against Christ, you revolt against yourself. God has us hooked. We may run away in short excursions of freedom, but he reels us in. The facts are against us.

— E. Stanley Jones, quoted by Darrell W. Johnson in
Discipleship on the Edge
(Vancouver, BC: Regent College Publishing, 2004), 117-118