One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the purpose and meaning that faith brings to daily life.
In this quote, Charles Colson expresses how his Christian faith provides him with a clear sense of purpose and significance in his daily actions. He reflects on the assurance that his life has meaning as he seeks to live fully through his beliefs and contribute to a greater cause, specifically, the advancement of the Kingdom of God. This perspective allows him to approach each day with intention and fulfillment, knowing that his efforts are aligned with his spiritual convictions.
In practice
During a church service when discussing living with purpose.
The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.
I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.
We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.
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