sight Sound Taste Smell Emotional Atmospheric Anything can bring association between the now and what was. It’s sudden and it’s strong. Those terrible memories you have about terrible things you have done, why are they the ones who are predominant in such memory recollection? Surely you have a great many pleasant memories. But your appearance […]
What is this spine that I wear on my back?It’s not the one I was born with. This spine is tempered steel .“ I can’t live in a fire to temper my spine!”. What is the strength of it?What does this do that bones cannot? Let’s take a look: Why am I sitting here full […]
Black, gray, white. Monotone, color, light. This world cannot write any story from heaven. It can only speculate, suspicion, imagine, the things of God in Christ. You want to know what’s sad is? All the stories of this world will gather together before the throne of God. They will see the Christ of God and […]
If you never feel tempted by the devil, it can only mean a couple of things. Either you have no moral compass so your conscience doesn’t bother you at all or you’re so in league with the devil you think everything he and you do is right (and not even you, let alone others, has […]
Everybody wants God to bless them. If a mass murderer were given a slice of sanity, he too would ask God to bless his hand! Think about it. The problem is when we get blessed in some earthly fashion having been on the bottom, nothing more than a walking pile of Dung, we lose something […]
At the bottom (a pallet sized hole in the ground, reaching to the surface far above my head) is an absolute desolation that does not come from man. I wonder how many have actually been here and got out. Then the answer comes down the tiny little stream next to me, as many as I […]
The latest Lord’s , teaching to me: Accept everything that IS. Do not let it change you in the slightest. Be at peace and full of joy, no matter what kind of circumstance arrives. Not just as a public veneer, but as a true joyful heart to encounter what is thrown in my face. You […]
I spoke to a lady yesterday who said she had lost a loved one. I wouldn’t mention this, but what the Lord shared in me was profound. The sum:Don’t let what is inevitable, destroy your hope in any fashion. You will feel profound sadness when death visits or horrible sickness anything that the world considers […]
Your ears say something of great value to you. When you hear a noise behind you, that’s moving around you the sound gets louder at the same distance. Here’s what I perceive, this says to us: Sometimes when we live our lives, Christians will be a little perplexed that they can’t perceive the words of […]
The will of God is like a strand of every possible color wrapped in his protection. He offers it to his people individually. What his child needs is already sown into his garment. Not being used to such splendor often his children will cover it with small rags in certain places, so as to appear […]
Words From There 
Hello. This is interesting because it hinges on something amazing. We are in a season of much upheaval and while part of the situation is indeed a trial of faith, many aspects are the result of bad decision making and even chastisement. And while we could have done certain things in a way that would have been less perplexing, I have been thanking God for the chastisement. That he is dealing with me as a son and not allowing me to go in my own way. It does lead to reverence and love of God on a deeper level.
Our world is filled with people who seem to have it all togerther; who have more financial reserve than they could ever spend…..and they are headed for hell. As you mention at the end of this post, the loving rebuke of God is far more desirable than the pleasures of this world for a season. In fact, they arent really pleasures. Compared to the peace of God, the offerings of this world feel like……death.
Thanks for touching on this often misunderstood, and yet critical aspect of life as we strive to daily be more like Jesus and less like us.
Blessings always in Jesus name.
timbob
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What comes to mind is this: “24“But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full. 25“Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 26“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.” (Luke 6)
How I yearn to see a contrite heart in every man I meet. I beg all men to consider the ways of the Holy God of all life. Now is the time to encounter Him. When we see Him in His fullness, we will be locked in what we have allowed Him to cause us to be here.
Thank you Tim. My prayers this morning were filled with truth regarding who I am opposed to who I should be at this place in my life. Though it is somewhat painful to give an accounting of myself as I find things to be, it will be far more painful for those who have hated His ways to give account of themselves without opportunity for change or renewal.
What this tells me is, “BE READY”! Give all you can, Paul. I can see how I will regret anything I’ve held back.
Oh Lord! God of heaven and earth, please provoke Your servants to yield to Your Righteous ways! By Your Holy Grace.
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