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Shine!

July 7, 2010 / / 1 Comment
Isaiah 32
Don’t be afraid of the storm.
After all, it’s not in the sunshine that Love’s territory is most radiant… It is in the shadow, when the tempest has decimated everything else. For “though hail comes down on the forest, and the city is brought low in humiliation,” 
“My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation.” (v. 19, 18)

I love the trophies of righteousness. Quite possibly the most sought-after commodities in the world– Peace, Quietness, Confidence, Assurance…

So don’t squirm or pray for blue skies next time you hear thunder afar off… Rejoice that through the territory of your heart God has a chance to shine…

Mystery of Mercy…

June 21, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Isaiah 16


Ahh, angels marvel at it too…


“This is the mystery of mercy into which the angels desire to look– that God can be just while he justifies the repenting sinner and renews His intercourse with the fallen race; that Christ could stoop to raise unnumbered multitudes from the abyss of ruin and clothe them with the spotless garments of His own righteousness to unite with angels who have never fallen and to dwell forever in the presence of God…” GC 145


“In mercy the throne will be established.” Is. 16:5

You are the salt… Yes, you.

October 15, 2009 / / 0 Comments
I’m not sure about you, but there have been few kitchen crises more memorable to me than the times we’ve run entirely out of salt… (Living 2 hours from Wal Mart does have it’s disadvantages…)
Well, life without love is like food without salt. Only, you and I are the salt.
Salt does lots of things, a few jump out at me this morning…
Salt is an intensifier…
Without it, porridge is not as tasty, candy is not as sweet, bread tastes empty, potatoes, tofu, & rice… blah! But add a little, and all the best comes alive…
That’s our job. By our influence the best should be brought out in people. We should be intensifiers (advocates, proponents) of every sweet, and pure, and holy, and beautiful thing. Jesus was…
Everything salt touches, changes…
That’s power! And that’s our job too. Leave no spot untouched for the kingdom of Heaven… And when we are His hands, what we touch, His Spirit will change.
And though it has no heat of it’s own, it melts ice…
Oh, I love this one. Sweet Jesus, use me! I have nothing worthy of my own, even to give to You… How then can it be that you will use little me to break hearts of stone, and melt the strongest, coldest, blackest lie…?
Ahh, the mystery of Love! Thy ways are too high for me…
Thanks for loving me. I love You too…

There are Promises, and then there are Promises…

February 21, 2009 / / 1 Comment


…All of them are infallible, but some are so pronounced they don’t even need to be articulated.

They’re absolute. They’re there whether or not He keeps saying it. Like love, and grace, and mercy…

For God to keep “promising” to love is a bit like a biological father promising to keep being a biological father. It’s not going to change, say it or not.

It’s Who God is.

Ok, So… where’s our part?

The appropriation of “promises absolute” depends not on the validity of the promise itself, but our appreciation for it.
Don’t appreciate it, (or don’t appreciate it enough) and for you, it’s almost like it’s not there… Even if it is absolute.
Love and grace and the Spirit… They all work that way.

They’ve always been there…
Oh Jesus, open our eyes…

Never Question Love… He knows what He’s doing.

January 6, 2009 / / 0 Comments
I learned something this morning… 
A simple truth – and one it would do us well to remember.
Never has a bitter cup been put to our lips, before Christ our Savior has taken to His own, and drunk the greater half…
Never tell me He doesn’t understand. 
And never question Love… He knows what He’s doing.

Happy Silver Anniversary…

June 14, 2007 / / 0 Comments

To my Father and Mother: Because of your love, by God’s grace I can look the world in the face without flinching… And I have a better picture of the Father… Thank you.

Living Proof of a Loving God…

June 10, 2007 / / 0 Comments

Let’s just say, this blog is destined to become the landing pad (parallel with my journal) for any precipitates of my nebulous cogitations… (My mind goes there often, as long as the nebula is somewhere between here and Heaven)

Ok, so here’s one for today:

God is Love–
Every facet of God’s existence is an expression of infinite love… God is love, and Love is God… It is common knowledge that we cannot thrive, or even exist without that Love to keep the blood flowing through our veins, and that we rightly represent our Father only when we are soaked, saturated, and dripping with His love…
But here’s the thought for today:
Every act of creation is an expression of infinite Love, and as the crowning act of creation we are to be the ultimate expression of God’s love… If Love abides in us, it refines and makes us perfect, but that is not all. Without us, God’s love cannot be perfected, because we are the chosen channel for the rest of the world…

“If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4:12

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