September 22
My reading this morning my heart is encouraged by the meditation of Spurgeon.
"Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care your gladness has its spring in the Lord. You have much cause for gladness in your God, for you can sing with David, "God, my exceeding joy." Be glad that the Lord reigns, the Jehovah is King! Rejoice that He sits upon the throne, and rules all things! Every attribute of God should become a fresh ray in the sunlight of our gladness. That He is wise should make us glad, knowing as we do our own foolishness. That He is mighty
should cause us to rejoice who tremble at our weakness. That He is everlasting, should always be a theme of joy when we know that we wither as the grass. That He is unchanging, perpetually yield us a song, since we change every hour. That He is full of grace, that He is overflowing with it, and that this grace in covenant He has given to us: that it is ours to cleanse us, ours to keep us, ours to sanctify us, ours to perfect us, ours to bring us to glory-all this should tent to make us glad in Him. ... Onward the depth is greater, and the current more impetuous in its joy...."
Psalm 149:2 "Let Israel rejoice in him."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Random and Active
Sunday morning
"Be the best logger"
Matthew 7:5
love earnestly (again)
"Practice makes permanent"
Noon
Romans 2:4
"or do you think lightly of riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?"
Active faith, seeking God
Isaiah 54:10
"For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My loving kindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,"
Says the Lord who has compassion on you"
Evening
Thank you Lord for the rain, that I can run, that you allow me to live and given me Life, you are with me always.
"Be the best logger"
Matthew 7:5
love earnestly (again)
"Practice makes permanent"
Noon
Romans 2:4
"or do you think lightly of riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?"
Active faith, seeking God
Isaiah 54:10
"For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My loving kindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,"
Says the Lord who has compassion on you"
Evening
Thank you Lord for the rain, that I can run, that you allow me to live and given me Life, you are with me always.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Running hard
I enjoyed New Attitude this year. Challenges confront me to the core of my heart. Meditating, scripture memory, daily engaging, delighting, dying to self, proclaiming the Word without shame, and life changes.
Life is short and truly I see the "vapor" evaporate in front my eyes. Where is God going to take me in this big picture?
I think about the discipline of spending time with my Saviour. Why can't I get myself out of bed at 0500 in the morning? My mind does not see that His Words are my "Life" and God is calling me to follow Him in Obedience to "bind His Words about my neck"..."put on the armour" ...hide "in my heart so that I might not sin against you"...to "seek it as treasure"....
I find myself passing off the my valuable time with God for exchange of saying that I am not being legalistic by being too rigid. (completely wrong thinking).
I love the dedicated, tenacious spirit, and love for God's Word displayed in Tyndale. Why can't I be like my brother who displayed this thirstiness for the Word of God and vision for all men to have the English printed version of the Bible in their hands. He pleaded to the king, carefully, thoughtfully, lovingly until his final death. He followed, in faith, the ultimate example, Jesus Christ, who was disregarded by men and kings. My apathy and pride stare me in the face. I want to run hard towards God, passionately, focused, sacrificing, unashamed, to be the same tool in the hand of God .
Love the Lord my God with all my heart? Myself gets in the way. My worldly pleasures, my "what next mentality", my "I deserve it", my faults thinking, questioning"is to die really gain"?.
No freedom being a slave to my self; it is short sighted, and not true to the way God designed me.
I reflect on Pipers message and Romans 14:8 ."...for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords."
Life is short and truly I see the "vapor" evaporate in front my eyes. Where is God going to take me in this big picture?
I think about the discipline of spending time with my Saviour. Why can't I get myself out of bed at 0500 in the morning? My mind does not see that His Words are my "Life" and God is calling me to follow Him in Obedience to "bind His Words about my neck"..."put on the armour" ...hide "in my heart so that I might not sin against you"...to "seek it as treasure"....
I find myself passing off the my valuable time with God for exchange of saying that I am not being legalistic by being too rigid. (completely wrong thinking).
I love the dedicated, tenacious spirit, and love for God's Word displayed in Tyndale. Why can't I be like my brother who displayed this thirstiness for the Word of God and vision for all men to have the English printed version of the Bible in their hands. He pleaded to the king, carefully, thoughtfully, lovingly until his final death. He followed, in faith, the ultimate example, Jesus Christ, who was disregarded by men and kings. My apathy and pride stare me in the face. I want to run hard towards God, passionately, focused, sacrificing, unashamed, to be the same tool in the hand of God .
Love the Lord my God with all my heart? Myself gets in the way. My worldly pleasures, my "what next mentality", my "I deserve it", my faults thinking, questioning"is to die really gain"?.
No freedom being a slave to my self; it is short sighted, and not true to the way God designed me.
I reflect on Pipers message and Romans 14:8 ."...for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords."
Sunday, April 13, 2008
forever asking the question when always the answer is love
"So God I have one question...why did you choose me?"
I am nothing and out of all of His creation; I was chosen to live with in relationship with Him forever. I was saved from eternal darkness and hell. I still don't know (never have experienced the pit of hell/silence/torture/burning) what that is like first hand experience. I am sure it is beyond human comprehension of excruciating pain emotionally, socially, physically.
As I was praying with my "family" I ask again...why did you choose me? It is love at its pinnacle for Jesus to unconditionally die, in torn flesh, disfigured, bleed profusely liters of blood, humiliated byHis own men; He purposefully, thoughtfully, submitting tenaciously to the will of God the Father for saving a small speck of dust-life like me. I can't understand it. Amazed, pondering, my mind cannot contain it...He loves Me more than I will ever fully understand.
I am nothing and out of all of His creation; I was chosen to live with in relationship with Him forever. I was saved from eternal darkness and hell. I still don't know (never have experienced the pit of hell/silence/torture/burning) what that is like first hand experience. I am sure it is beyond human comprehension of excruciating pain emotionally, socially, physically.
As I was praying with my "family" I ask again...why did you choose me? It is love at its pinnacle for Jesus to unconditionally die, in torn flesh, disfigured, bleed profusely liters of blood, humiliated byHis own men; He purposefully, thoughtfully, submitting tenaciously to the will of God the Father for saving a small speck of dust-life like me. I can't understand it. Amazed, pondering, my mind cannot contain it...He loves Me more than I will ever fully understand.
Friday, March 7, 2008
it passed me by
it passed me by to give you a smile, warm eyes, kind words, a purposeful touch,
enough to make a difference, enough that my care may change the course of ones thought,
enough to inspire the hopes of tomorrow;
it passed me by to say it gently, to love differently then expected in one's eyes.
You needed help, or a someone to spend time with one set of ears and eyes to listen to you with their heart too; a moment for them to hear you to the end, and eager to respond in time.
Did I take it for granted that you will be there again another day, another turn, your life to sparkle, where I will say one more time "hello" to you, or will I regret the moment to say, "it passed me by"?
"love earnestly"...
enough to make a difference, enough that my care may change the course of ones thought,
enough to inspire the hopes of tomorrow;
it passed me by to say it gently, to love differently then expected in one's eyes.
You needed help, or a someone to spend time with one set of ears and eyes to listen to you with their heart too; a moment for them to hear you to the end, and eager to respond in time.
Did I take it for granted that you will be there again another day, another turn, your life to sparkle, where I will say one more time "hello" to you, or will I regret the moment to say, "it passed me by"?
"love earnestly"...
Sunday, March 2, 2008
What does it mean to Love
What does it mean to love?
Blessing and suffering go hand-in-hand as I heard in church today.
The Bible says "Earnestly love". My human nature does not want to earnestly love many times. It is hard work to choose to love. Loving I thought was supposed to come easily , fuzzy, warm almost all of the time....But I reminded again it is not always that. It demands an about- face-radical-step. I say, "I choose against my feelings to Love You"..."Earnestly love you". But my motivation is without power if I don't remember Christ Loved me first in my vile filthy rag (disgusting old menstrual rags-i heard that in church too).
"HE LOVED ME FIRST. I love you first in spite of the wrongs I am reminded of". Or should I say, "What wrong did you do towards me? I can't remember? I refuse to recollect the wrongs of yesterday...it is done....I love you".
Christ loving the blind man and the women at the well was shocking, the humanly unnatural, the unexpected, goes against all human nature. Christ spending His years on earth knowing to face the final day of the Cross to die for betrayers, sinners, people who hated Him. I can't even understand it. This just reveals my heart, my desperateness for God at this very moment. God I cry out for you to give me your grace again; "it is sufficient".
Blessing and suffering go hand-in-hand as I heard in church today.
The Bible says "Earnestly love". My human nature does not want to earnestly love many times. It is hard work to choose to love. Loving I thought was supposed to come easily , fuzzy, warm almost all of the time....But I reminded again it is not always that. It demands an about- face-radical-step. I say, "I choose against my feelings to Love You"..."Earnestly love you". But my motivation is without power if I don't remember Christ Loved me first in my vile filthy rag (disgusting old menstrual rags-i heard that in church too).
"HE LOVED ME FIRST. I love you first in spite of the wrongs I am reminded of". Or should I say, "What wrong did you do towards me? I can't remember? I refuse to recollect the wrongs of yesterday...it is done....I love you".
Christ loving the blind man and the women at the well was shocking, the humanly unnatural, the unexpected, goes against all human nature. Christ spending His years on earth knowing to face the final day of the Cross to die for betrayers, sinners, people who hated Him. I can't even understand it. This just reveals my heart, my desperateness for God at this very moment. God I cry out for you to give me your grace again; "it is sufficient".
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Where do you go...
Where do you go when your world completely crashes...when no persons are there to be there for you (they say they would, if not in words, in actions)...the silence of the desert is all the experience...
Where do you go when you long for complete friendship...exchange of ones deepest feelings...one seeing the best in one to another...enjoying each other...loyal through life...looking for the next day...to see you...celebrating the day, playing in it together...talking about the day... looking for another memory to keep in your pockets.
I go to the Rock...He never breaks, He is Faithful, He never leaves, He always Loves me, He is Always, Always there beside, behind, beneath, before, inside, me. I love you God because you first loved me. You are my Father and my dearest Friend.
Wendy
Where do you go when you long for complete friendship...exchange of ones deepest feelings...one seeing the best in one to another...enjoying each other...loyal through life...looking for the next day...to see you...celebrating the day, playing in it together...talking about the day... looking for another memory to keep in your pockets.
I go to the Rock...He never breaks, He is Faithful, He never leaves, He always Loves me, He is Always, Always there beside, behind, beneath, before, inside, me. I love you God because you first loved me. You are my Father and my dearest Friend.
Wendy
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