“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace…” Heb4.16 ESV
Have you ever had someone tell you that if you needed anything they had, you could have it? I witnessed this first hand yesterday as a friend of mine when to a friend of his and repeatedly took from his tool shed everything he needed to fix my air-conditioner. Not just tools mind you, but the very parts needed to get the job done. When I asked my friend about going back so many times to his friend shed, He laughed and told me that when his friend told us we could have anything we needed that he really meant it.
God really means it, when He repeatedly tells us to draw near to the throne of grace. Our gracious Friend is more eager to give to us than we are many times willing to ask from Him. Some have said that God is too busy to be concerned with our tiny problems. What I know, is that yesterday when I told Brenda that our air-conditioner had broke, she told me that my friend just happened to be parked in front of the house. 8/30/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
“I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.” Hubert de Givenchy
“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace…” Heb4.16 ESV
Have you ever had someone tell you that if you needed anything they had, you could have it? I witnessed this first hand yesterday as a friend of mine when to a friend of his and repeatedly took from his tool shed everything he needed to fix my air-conditioner. Not just tools mind you, but the very parts needed to get the job done. When I asked my friend about going back so many times to his friend shed, He laughed and told me that when his friend told us we could have anything we needed that he really meant it.
God really means it, when He repeatedly tells us to draw near to the throne of grace. Our gracious Friend is more eager to give to us than we are many times willing to ask from Him. Some have said that God is too busy to be concerned with our tiny problems. What I know, is that yesterday when I told Brenda that our air-conditioner had broke, she told me that my friend just happened to be parked in front of the house. 8/30/2008 ts
Have you ever had someone tell you that if you needed anything they had, you could have it? I witnessed this first hand yesterday as a friend of mine when to a friend of his and repeatedly took from his tool shed everything he needed to fix my air-conditioner. Not just tools mind you, but the very parts needed to get the job done. When I asked my friend about going back so many times to his friend shed, He laughed and told me that when his friend told us we could have anything we needed that he really meant it.
God really means it, when He repeatedly tells us to draw near to the throne of grace. Our gracious Friend is more eager to give to us than we are many times willing to ask from Him. Some have said that God is too busy to be concerned with our tiny problems. What I know, is that yesterday when I told Brenda that our air-conditioner had broke, she told me that my friend just happened to be parked in front of the house. 8/30/2008 ts
“She looked at him, as one who awakes: The past was a sleep, and her life began” Robert Browning
“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?” Ps139.7 ESV
It is a powerful experience to be in the presence of a person who is fully present. Whenever such people walk into the room you sense that they are fully there, alive in the moment. Such people somehow make those around them feel more present, more alive. These awake people communicate the very magic of life simply because they are interacting with every single thing around them very much like a baby who investigates every thing in sight.
I think that when we grow to fully and completely live this way (very much like becoming a child again) that we shall wake to God’s very real presence that is always there but not noticed. I don’t mean that we will wake in the intellectual sense that we believe that He is there doctrinally but wake to Him as one wakes to the presence of something alive such as coming upon a snake in a bed of leaves. Shocking at first to say the lease, and I mean God, not the snake. Yet, after a while, waking to His presence melts into living in His presence. It is here that we will at last live life as He intends. Until then, He is there beside us, patiently and gently shaking us awake. 8/29/2008 ts
It is a powerful experience to be in the presence of a person who is fully present. Whenever such people walk into the room you sense that they are fully there, alive in the moment. Such people somehow make those around them feel more present, more alive. These awake people communicate the very magic of life simply because they are interacting with every single thing around them very much like a baby who investigates every thing in sight.
I think that when we grow to fully and completely live this way (very much like becoming a child again) that we shall wake to God’s very real presence that is always there but not noticed. I don’t mean that we will wake in the intellectual sense that we believe that He is there doctrinally but wake to Him as one wakes to the presence of something alive such as coming upon a snake in a bed of leaves. Shocking at first to say the lease, and I mean God, not the snake. Yet, after a while, waking to His presence melts into living in His presence. It is here that we will at last live life as He intends. Until then, He is there beside us, patiently and gently shaking us awake. 8/29/2008 ts
“She looked at him, as one who awakes: The past was a sleep, and her life began” Robert Browning
“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?” Ps139.7 ESV
It is a powerful experience to be in the presence of a person who is fully present. Whenever such people walk into the room you sense that they are fully there, alive in the moment. Such people somehow make those around them feel more present, more alive. These awake people communicate the very magic of life simply because they are interacting with every single thing around them very much like a baby who investigates every thing in sight.
I think that when we grow to fully and completely live this way (very much like becoming a child again) that we shall wake to God’s very real presence that is always there but not noticed. I don’t mean that we will wake in the intellectual sense that we believe that He is there doctrinally but wake to Him as one wakes to the presence of something alive such as coming upon a snake in a bed of leaves. Shocking at first to say the lease, and I mean God, not the snake. Yet, after a while, waking to His presence melts into living in His presence. It is here that we will at last live life as He intends. Until then, He is there beside us, patiently and gently shaking us awake. 8/29/2008 ts
It is a powerful experience to be in the presence of a person who is fully present. Whenever such people walk into the room you sense that they are fully there, alive in the moment. Such people somehow make those around them feel more present, more alive. These awake people communicate the very magic of life simply because they are interacting with every single thing around them very much like a baby who investigates every thing in sight.
I think that when we grow to fully and completely live this way (very much like becoming a child again) that we shall wake to God’s very real presence that is always there but not noticed. I don’t mean that we will wake in the intellectual sense that we believe that He is there doctrinally but wake to Him as one wakes to the presence of something alive such as coming upon a snake in a bed of leaves. Shocking at first to say the lease, and I mean God, not the snake. Yet, after a while, waking to His presence melts into living in His presence. It is here that we will at last live life as He intends. Until then, He is there beside us, patiently and gently shaking us awake. 8/29/2008 ts
“All the days are "Now" for Him…though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for Him.” C. S. Lewis
“we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” Rom8.37 ESV
Christians often confess that they feel the exact opposite of many things said about them in the Scriptures. We are called saints but we feel sinful. We are said to be more than conquerors but we often feel defeated. This disparity of fact and feeling probably exists because we are told to believe something about ourselves when our experience is telling us other wise. This may have something to do with our limited perspective. We are somewhere in the middle of the book so to speak, but God has already finished writing it. I have many times gotten so caught up in a particular scene in a movie or book, you know where things look pretty bad for the main character, that I experience some anxiety about whether they will survive or not. I often laugh at my self when reality reminds me that the end of the story is already written and that the main character not only survives but also lives happily ever after. And so it is with us. We are this moment somewhere in the middle of the story as those trapped in time and God knows its end for He is the Author and outside of time. This story is already written and He is kind enough to give those of us who are still in the middle of it a peek at the last line. "And they will reign forever and ever.” 8/28/2008 ts
Christians often confess that they feel the exact opposite of many things said about them in the Scriptures. We are called saints but we feel sinful. We are said to be more than conquerors but we often feel defeated. This disparity of fact and feeling probably exists because we are told to believe something about ourselves when our experience is telling us other wise. This may have something to do with our limited perspective. We are somewhere in the middle of the book so to speak, but God has already finished writing it. I have many times gotten so caught up in a particular scene in a movie or book, you know where things look pretty bad for the main character, that I experience some anxiety about whether they will survive or not. I often laugh at my self when reality reminds me that the end of the story is already written and that the main character not only survives but also lives happily ever after. And so it is with us. We are this moment somewhere in the middle of the story as those trapped in time and God knows its end for He is the Author and outside of time. This story is already written and He is kind enough to give those of us who are still in the middle of it a peek at the last line. "And they will reign forever and ever.” 8/28/2008 ts
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