The cleansing descent to the height of awareness. James 4:7-10
How amazing it is when we come together(heart forum) to worship more than our feelings. Matthew 18:20
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Happy Birthday Mom! An only, not lonely child, born on Christmas day when the main pipes froze and burst in Murray Ky so there was no water, the Bank of Murray caught on fire, and the doctor, Dr. Covington, had a heart attack after the delivery.
Contrarian indicator and the caterer. One knows and shows, the other shows what she knows. To know Christ reveals and heals, to show Christ appeals. Luke 10:38-42
Drink it in. It's a new Son, not a new or once in a blue moon. Before new moon He was. His life is in the blood of his death and His light is the life of his bloodline. Blood without Light is distant at high noon or moon. Psalm 121:3-6
I goad, you went. Go(with Me) or continue to wince(resist) at your own peril. Acts 26:14
Getting to know someone more or being in some new situation that begins to challenge or change the way I’ve lived, I find that my tendency is to rely on my own wisdom and experience what to do next. There’s nothing uncommon about that among most of us. However, it’s more often than not that I rush with a lead foot into conclusions that I act on that lead me into further conclusions. This creates in me more confusion the farther I go. Something just doesn’t feel right all of a sudden. I discover not only my insecurity at this point, but how rarely I seek to be led in these situations. I try to control the matter by asking the wrong questions that often start with “What should I…?. My questions come more from others that I’ve seen in similar situations, grown up hearing, or just from nervous habit. I realize that I really am not even asking, but making judgements wrapped in a question.
The force by which I live or the momentum that is carrying me goes against the often quoted Psalm 46:10 “Be stilll and know that I am God.” Only in the stillness will I discover the whisper leading me with a new question or the same question reworded so that the answer is discovered.
Then comes the question that even grown successful men often ask “How do I do that?”
Psalm 23 addresses this so simply that though many of us have it memorized, we rarely think of it when a challenge or change comes.
He leads me there to reveal that there is His home, deep within me. I learn to turn within as I’m led now more than I ever knew that the Holy Spirit was willing to lead. Matthew 26:41
Oh the wonder and beauty of intimacy as work in progress! Psalm 25:14
Inability in my own wisdom to harmonize the love, justice, and wisdom of God. 2 Peter 3:9
Quickenedsand lot. Psalm 81:16
It's easier to label(categorize) than to understand(know) under stress. Labels limit and procrastinate understanding by controlling arguments. Fear from unbelief is often a cause and an intensifying result. Matthew 25:24-25
Intellectual acceptance and emotional rejection often expressed as "I should...." or "A part of me feels...". Psalm 86:11
High enough to scratch the surface. Colossians 2:7
Aware of our wares of response and responsibility to God. 1 Corinthians 7:24
Bit by bit it rains on the just and the unjust. Psalm 32:8-10
A gift from God to test(rely upon) His power without testing Him.
Garbage bin there done that.
Healing the broken language of the wounded in order to fully experience the profound moments of living reality out of which flows the expression "I am what I am."
We can't produce perfection. In fact perfectionism procastinates obedience out of faith leading to forms of self-hatred rather than disgust with our selfishness. Often lost is a continual experience of inclusion from being born into a family whose head is perfection that gives meaning(winsome spirit) to all we do through access to him. Ephesian 3:12 Only wisdom can interpret failure correctly.
There is no tenderness without understanding. There is no understanding without tenderness. The great attempt, putting God in a box, the mind lustfully flirting with the heart, forcing the heart to take the beautifully masked punches. But our head begins to hurt from the heart’s wounds. The sore hands of the mind from trying to wrap itself around the Infinite, finally pull back, now, too tender. Without tenderness there is no understanding. Job 17:2-4