Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Man of Her Dreams.

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A bride in an elaborate wedding dress from 1929.

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A young woman dreams of the man she imagines.

With delicate care he considers her needs.

Though she knows her desire, wants, needs, and cares,

She envisions a man who understands.

And if the Lord blesses, and the two hear His voice,

Then the union will be strands of gold.

The man of her dreams will watch with intent,

Every movement, every habit, every notion his love presents.

What joy to be united in such a delicate embrace of care.

And sadly to few arrive.

The man of her dreams will go to extent.

Provision will surely arrive.

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Are we not the Bride of Christ?

Will the Ocean Be Saved?

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Waves breaking at Porto Covo, west coast of Po...

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You have said to the sea,

“Thus far you shall come and no more.”

You have said to man’s greed,

“Thus far you shall come and no more.”

You have made a people for Yourself.

You spoke them to life and said,

“Thus far you have come……..

And I will call you farther.”

Praise to the Lord of Life!

For He has not restrained His people.

He has set them free to live!

He has touched them with His Holy Hand.

And to them He has said,

“I will come to you and take you to be with me.

This far you WILL come and it will be complete.

For where I am you will be also.”

The restraint of the sea does not belong to man.

The restraint against sin does not belong to God’s people.

Just as the hope in Christ is not offered to the ocean.

Amen.

“I Did It!”

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Do you have a prayer to pray?  Is there a task needing done that is too much for you?  Are you overcome with the requirements of life?  Then take heart, you’re not alone.

Does the carpet need vacuuming?  And you find that you can’t find the strength or will to go do it?  Then do this small task:  Get up from where you are.  Walk over to the place where the

Carpet.

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vacuum is stored.  In this small task (something easily done) you have approached the cleaning of the carpet.  What was too much for you a moment ago is nearing completion.  And, let’s be frank here, since you’ve come this far why not reach out and take hold of the machine.  Draw it to you and out of storage.  Push or carry it to the carpet needing cleaned.  Now reach out your hand and grasp the cord.  Remove it from its place.  Walk over to………. oh I know you understand what I’m saying here.

Let’s approach the life Jesus has called us to in the same manner.  There is no need to say anything more on this.

Switch Off the Darkness.

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Gods' Creation

Gods' Creation (Photo credit: Kamoteus (A New Beginning))

I walk through the house in the dark, feeling my way through the halls.  Obviously, when the light is on I walk differently because my eyes receive what they need to help me walk without hesitation.  I drive my truck through the night by turning on the headlights.  I look down at the instruments and am able to read them because they are lit.  The moment I turn off the lights I am bound to have trouble.

It comes to mind that God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.  Therefore He never stumbles.  What is this light of God?  The light of God is righteousness.  We who serve Him have heard of this.  But I see how we often desire the darkness.  I see how we seek out a shadow so we can ponder a return to the land of Egypt.  We are fooled by remembering how sweet the food was there.  But we forget how destructive was the slavery.  We forget how they forced us to kill our children; all the males of the Israelites were to be killed.

Encourage yourself, as even now I remember these things.  Encourage one another, as even now I do to you.  Let us allow the light to enter in.  Let us turn off the darkness.  Let us not look behind and yearn for what was surely to destroy us.  But let us learn to desire the Life of God, that it might appear stronger within us than the darkness that had covered us.  Recall the following scripture and strive to apply it to our every second of time that will be granted to us in this place of testing.

1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 7 Therefore do not be partners with them.  (Ephesians 5)

Father in Heaven, please grant that I should learn what my heart has known.  It is my fingers which placed these letters in that specific order.  I have understood this.  May You grant that I may know it to the doing.  Amen.

Winter Past, Victory Attained!

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English: Yosemite Valley in winter

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The people of God wake to spring in America.   As I sat in the dark to listen to the rain sprinkle life to new born plants, I thought about the winter past.  I thought of how quickly a season passes once it is done.  How odd that the strivings of winter fade to a single picture of either success or failure when Spring moves in.  And at the end of that inspection I find work.  By His Glorious Grace I have worked through Winter to become something more than what I was in the Fall.

How beautiful to find that growth has been logged in my history.  I did not do this.  It is God, because of His beauty, who has done this for me.  And not for me only, but for all who hear with ears not their own.  For those who have been given eyes to see what cannot be seen with the eyes of man.  And for all of us who fight that good fight with a strength that only comes from the One who is absolute strength.

How glorious to remember that God is eternal!  To know that there is no shadow of turning within the God Most High we serve through Jesus.  We rest in knowing that unending seasons will continue because God cannot fail.   Death belongs to sin.  And there is no possibility of God sinning against Himself.

With this I rise to serve.  And I remember this:  There is no fear in love.  For fear has to do with punishment.  And he who fears is not yet made perfect in love.  There is no reason to fear Spring this year.  For I remember that He has granted me sweet memories of holy work within me through the Winter.   May God bless all His children with the same victory, and more.

Amen!

By Hiis Grace.

We Know

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We know when we have passed from death to life.  That is to say, we know when we have entered into His blessing.  We know it by the heart of flesh He gives us.  We know it by the intense desire to do what is good.  We know it by the Spirit He causes to live within us.  For we know that the Spirit of God envies intensely for the Good Things Of God.

If we have entered in, then let us explode with the Lovely things of God!

 

Amen