Sela

“God knows that I could never meet his standard, his Law, so he sent Jesus to fulfill the Law on my behalf. And Jesus came “full of grace and truth,” not more law. He gives me mercy when I deserve punishment, forgiveness rather than condemnation, freedom instead of bondage, and rest instead of work. This is good news. Great news! This is what the New Testament calls the “gospel,” which means “good news.” When”
― Rich Wilkerson Jr., Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World

“You’re called to come out of the crowd. You’re called to be counter-culture.
You’re not called to live in this world, be of this world-you’re called to come out. News flash-the crowd is stupid. The crowd has no identity at all. We just do what everyone else is doing. “

“When you decide, you divide the enemy and his tactics, and his distractions towards your life.
The moment you actually conqueror the urge, you get stronger and the urges get weaker. But it will never happen, until you determine “I am not like the crowd, I’m coming out of the crowd. I’m apart of the minority. Ruth is determined to choose right over easy. You want to know what the right thing is? The right thing is God’s word, and it’s not just about knowing it, it’s about applying it to your life!”

“Choose right over easy.”

“See, when you come out of the crowd, and when you say, and when you say with the crowd, it’s all crowded here, and when you say I’m going to be apart of the minority, but let my commitments stand. Hey Naomi, you don’t know me, I made a commitment, and my commitment matters. You can tell me I’m relieved of my responsibility, but my vow is my vow. And I’m not going to be swayed, just because the circumstances have changed.”

“Stay on the path, because you don’t know what lies ahead of you. Because you’re not God. All He asks you and I is to put one foot in front of another. To keep on moving. Keep on going. Commit to God’s way, and watch God make a way, when there seems to be no way. “

“Being single is awesome!
When you’re single, everything in your house, you own all of it. All the money in your bank account, belongs to you.” :)

“I think one of the hardest things, that people don’t talk about is that you get to decorate your house exactly how you want to do it.”

“The older I get, the more I realize that
people are borderline obsessed with what’s next…but if you’re not careful you’ll get so obsessed with what’s next, you won’t care about what is now. It doesn’t take a lot of use to realize, that if you’re graduating from high school, everyone’s going-“where you going to college?” If you’re in college, everyone’s like “where are you going to work?” You work for a little while as a single person, and it’s like “when are you going to get married.” You get married, and everyone’s like, “when are you going to have kids?” You have a kid, and everyone’s like, “when are you going to have more kids.”

“Singleness is not a stop sign. It’s not a period, it’s not a comma. Your life doesn’t begin when you get married. A boy-friend or a girl-friend doesn’t make your life start happening. Life is happening. The question is, “are you happening?” You don’t have to live boring or be bored to be single. A life filled with Jesus is full of adventure. It’s filled with spontaneity, it’s full of ups and downs. And it’s time for you to get on mission. Let me just be loud and clear and frank with it-Jesus is a better partner than any spouse could ever dream of being.”

“The truth is, sometimes sitting on the path can be just as detrimental as getting off the path. You’re called to move forward, you’re called to grow, you’re called to become.”

“Be the minority, because the majority is overrated.”


-Rich Wilkerson Jr., Single and Secure”
― Rich Wilkerson Jr.