“There is but one way in which God should be loved, and that is to take no step except with Him and for Him, and to follow with a generous self-abandonment every thing which He requires.”
François Fénelon (1651-1715) French archbishop and theologian in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (New York: Wilbur B. Ketcham, 1895) 542.
For the past 16 years, every Friday that I am in Colorado (and that He is able to meet) I have gotten together to talk, pray, read a chapter from God’s Word with a dear friend, Tom Assmus.
Today is Tom’s 65th birthday. Tom lives with generous self-abandonment in service to Jesus Christ and has modeled for me that it’s the only way to live life with and for God. Thanks Tom!
God, please bless Tom with many more years of fruitful service with and for You, and help the rest of us follow Christ obediently with self-abandonment thanks to the Spirit’s enablement. Amen.