The Best Minute: On following Scripture, accomplishment, and who God is

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS:

I. Esau McCaulley on faithfully teaching and following Scripture:

“The question isn’t always which account of Christianity uses the Bible. The question is which does justice to as much of the biblical witness as possible. There are uses of Scripture that utter a false testimony about God. This is what we see in Satan’s use of Scripture in the wilderness. The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness.

This is my claim about the slave master’s [use of the Bible in] the antebellum South. The slave master arrangement of biblical material bore false witness about God. This remains true of quotations of the Bible in our own day that challenge our commitment to the refugee, the poor, and the disinherited.”

II. Trevor Kletz, an exceptionally innovative and successful chemical engineer, on how he accomplished so much in his career:

“If one asked permission there was a 50% chance it would be refused. If one just got on with it, 19 times out of 20 nothing was said.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. God has not asked us to be what he will not empower us to be. He will give us the strength and courage to do what he asks us to do if we pursue him.

II. God does not have love, he is love.

1 INTERESTING FACT

You can always see your nose.

The human brain is capable of amazing things, but in order to do those things, it needs to block out distractions through a process called unconscious selective attention. The nose is one of those distractions. In his landmark 1960s study, Ulric Neisser discovered this phenomenon after he asked participants to count the number of times basketball players passed a ball in a video. What the large majority failed to notice in the video was a girl walking through the middle of the court with an umbrella, because they were so focused on counting.

Source: Best Life / Psychological Science