Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Colossians 3:2
“Ask our Lord to make all earthly joy insipid, and to fill you with the constant desire of heaven. This desire will make labor easy and suffering light. It will make you fervent and detached, and bring you even here a foretaste of that eternal joy and peace to which you are hastening.”
Cyril of Jerusalem (313-386) in The Lives of the Saints by Alan Butler, 1894 (Global Grey edition, 2019) 29 May reading.
I am facilitating another cohort of students through a one-month course called Biblical Understanding of Management with Christian Institute for Management (CIM) India (pictured above). This is my fourth or fifth cohort for this course since 2020. Yesterday I zoomed with the 15 students.
They serve as pastors, ministry administrators, school directors, and hospital supervisors. And they share one thing in common. They deeply desire to grow as effective Christian managers. I charged them from Mark 1:35 to get up early each day to spend time with Jesus.
This discipline will create margin to watch 16 videos over the next four weeks from Monday through Thursday each week. And it will teach them to rise early to fill their cups with biblical truths to enjoy and share. My prayer with this course is to cause the world to become insipid (or lacking flavor) to them.
How do we bring this about and unleash generous disciples in the process? We form patterns of tasting what satisfies so that things which cannot satisfy become insipid to us. And I love that I can zoom with them from anywhere in the world.
As our GTP onsite work concludes in Ukraine in the next few days, please pray for things to wrap up well and safe travel. Thanks so much. And ask yourself this question: Do I regularly taste that which satisfies so that the things of this world become insipid (lack flavor) to me?