a few words to ponder

Dallas Willard is an awesome man. I attended a conference this past summer in which he addressed discipleship and it was great and challenging.  I'm currently reading his book The Spirit of the Disciplines, there are a few quotes that jumped out to me and have been transforming my heart over the past couple of days:

"The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy.  This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions.  We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality."

Are you willing to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right?  It's a daily process.  It's not a one sentence deal.  In the valleys between the mountaintops how will you choose to live?  When the spotlight disappears how will you choose to live?   

"True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would."

Oswald Chambers addresses the Sermon on the Mount as a "statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us".  Obviously these are weighty statements and probably easier said then done, but I want this.  These two points especially have gotten into my spirit and I just continue to pray for more of Him and less of me.