Too Much Perfect NEC Campmeeting 2009 The July

Too Much Perfect NEC Campmeeting 2009 The July 2007 edition of Surfing Magazine ran a cover story titled “Too Much Perfect”. The subtitle read, “[Shane] Dorian Ponders the Session of His Life”.

The cover photo showed pro surfer Shane Dorian riding an impossibly perfect, azure-blue wave at an undisclosed and remote location deep in the South Pacific. “I’ve never caught so many perfect waves on a trip. . . every wave that came in between 5 and 12 feet was absolutely flawless. ” -Shane Dorian

The photos were entirely mesmerizing. There could be no doubt, they had experienced perfection. “Have you ever caught too many perfect waves? ”

What happens when you’ve arrived? “We were letting waves go by that would’ve been the best waves of anybody’s life. ” -Mark Matthews

What do you do when your dream comes true? “I reckon we must have each gotten more than 50 crazy barrels on the big day. The barrels were so wide and such a guaranteed thing, that it almost got. . . boring. ”

keep dreaming. . . Most of our dreams are better as dreams than as realities; if we ever actually got them we would find ourselves, not elated, but disappointed and ultimately empty.

unless. . . our dreams are God’s dreams for us Our dreams are better as dreams than as reality, but God is better in reality than even in our wildest dreams.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

Well known British writer and media personality, Malcolm Muggeridge, turned to Christ from a life of heavy drinking, heavy smoking, womanizing, and legendary pleasure-seeking. He also turned from his rather vocal and public agnosticism. He told the story in his 1972 book Jesus Rediscovered. “I may I suppose regard myself as a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets, that’s fame. I can fairly easily earn enough money to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Internal Revenue Service, that’s success. Furnished with money and a little fame, even the elderly, if they care to, may partake of friendly diversions, thats pleasure. It might happen once in awhile that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to. . .

Well known British writer and media personality, Malcolm Muggeridge, turned to Christ from a life of heavy drinking, heavy smoking, womanizing, and legendary pleasure-seeking. He also turned from his rather vocal and public agnosticism. He told the story in his 1972 book Jesus Rediscovered. persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time, thats fulfillment. Yet I say to you, and I beg you to believe me, multiply the tiny triumphs by millions, add them all up together and they are nothing, less than nothing, indeed a positive impediment, measured against one drop of that living water Christ offers to the Spiritually thirsty irrespective of who or what they are.

But what do we give up, when we give all? A sin-polluted heart, for Jesus to purify, to cleanse by His own blood, and to save by His matchless love. And yet men think it hard to give up all! I am ashamed to hear it spoken of, ashamed to write it.

God does not require us to give up anything that it is for our best interest to retain. In all that He does, He has the wellbeing of His children in view. Would that all who have not chosen Christ might realize that He has something vastly better to offer them than they are seeking for themselves. Steps to Christ, 46

what was the first lie ever told? Genesis 3: 1, 4, 5

Fame Success Pleasure Fulfillment Your dreams aren’t big enough. Let God dream your dreams for you. Only He is big enough to satisfy your deepest longings, largest ambitions, and most personal desires.

who better? Who is better equipped to fulfill the longing desires of the human heart, than Him who made the heart to desire?

the desire of ages What does God give you when He gives you “the desires of your heart” (Ps. 37: 4)? He gives you the only thing that can truly satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart. . . He gives you Himself.

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that You were made for another world. -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that You were made for another world. -CS Lewis, Mere Christianity Let God dream your dreams. Let God be your dreams.

-CS Lewis, Mere Christianity Let God Be your dreams.

-CS Lewis, Mere Christianity Let God Be your dreams.