Applause!

Applause! For the applause of whom do you live? Some live for praise from their spouse. Others do it for their parents or children. The famous tend to live for praise from the crowds.

“For they loved human praise more than praise from God.” John 12:43

“The logic of wordly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!” – Thomas Merton (1915-1968). (The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: image, 1970) 400.)

A few, however, live for God. The only way to grasp the generous life is live for the One who gave you life as a gift to be enjoyed and shared.

Think about it!