Your condition; your ignorance; your humanness; your weakness; your burden; these have saved you (yet Satan was condemned). Your faith will make you well.
Cast Down From Heaven
2008Dec15 at 1257 (Heart's Land, Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: burden, cast down, condition, faith, heaven, humanity, ignorance, saved, weakness, well
Restlessness and Anticipation
2008Nov15 at 1146 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: absolute, anticipation, come, confession, confidence, death, endurance, eternal, faith, glory, God, heart, honor, knowledge, lasting, life, promise, restlessness, savior, search, trust, truth, value, will of God
All my young life I’ve been searching for something. Consistently unsatisfied with the things I approach; with the direction they are going–they never last; they never have absolute value; they never have true honor; they never have lasting glory; they always die.
I want to be in something eternal, but I don’t trust it. So I hold on… to save myself.
“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:
‘For yet a little while,
And he who is coming will come and not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.’ ” -to the Hebrews
The cure of this restless heart lies in the confidence of it’s confession.
Do I trust this God? I do not understand Him, how can I endure His will?
Do I believe the words of His son? Do I know Him?
I must.
In Pursuit Once More
2008Nov15 at 1116 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: faith, gentleness, God, godliness, love, patience, Paul of Tarsus, pursuit, renewal, revive, righteousness, spirit, strength
“Pursue…”
That one word can revive a man’s soul and renew his strength.
“But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.” -Paul of Tarsus
Where We’re At…
2008Aug31 at 0810 (Thinkables)
Tags: bitter jealousy, Christ, complete redemption, empower, faith, free, fulfillment, God, God's Spirit, hope, love, redemptive submission, revelations, selfish ambition, servant, spiritual powers, submission, transform, unbound, unity
Now that the Great Task has been accomplished by the greatest of all servants, Christ the King Eternal, those who are privileged to serve Yahweh in Christ are freed and empowered to do anything in submission to God.
The saints are no longer bound by anything of this world, but as they are still in it, they have been given power, through God’s Spirit, to do as Christ did: to transform the things of this world into their redemptive submission to God, that others may likewise be freed to the full capacity that is offered in Christ.
The Spirit reveals all things that this may be accomplished. But neither the vision, nor its fulfillment will be seen alone. There must be perfect unity, together in Christ.
Bitter jealousies and selfish ambitions must be altogether removed from our presence by joining together, as the broken vessels we are, as one body, fully submitting to God; pressing–with all, faith; with all, hope; and with all, love–toward the fulfillment of God’s complete plan of redemption.
