When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvinced and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.
I don't know that I've had a chance to thank you for the many times you have blessed me with your surprise visits :) There is a quiet strength in you brother. When you share your heart, when you drop by with a note of encouragement, I feel my arms held up... supported in the battle.
Today's post was perfect for me. This morning, I heard Father's whisper to eat and drink for myself what I so crave in the experience of others.
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
"So maybe when we "congratulate" one another for our brilliant abilities in sharing Life we should refrain and instead say, "I love seeing Jesus being so real thru you!"
Christianity is not about learning to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.
We must see all the brothers and sisters as equals if we are to grasp the reality of Jesus' statement "My Father and Your Father". There are NO junior and senior kindergarten children in the Father's household.
Knowing Christ is a living, spontaneous knowledge. This is not an understanding that you possess so much as it is a knowing that possesses you.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness!
I trust those visiting here will wade out into the waters of the Father's amazing grace, and likewise experience the unfolding reality of His total unconditional acceptance. Upon this unmoveable and secure footing we move on into His higher purposes for our lives.
Sometimes we have to live with some uncertainty and chaos before a new order can take shape.
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Rich,
I don't know that I've had a chance to thank you for the many times you have blessed me with your surprise visits :) There is a quiet strength in you brother. When you share your heart, when you drop by with a note of encouragement, I feel my arms held up... supported in the battle.
Today's post was perfect for me. This morning, I heard Father's whisper to eat and drink for myself what I so crave in the experience of others.
Bless you my friend.
Silent Wings,
Your thanks are received with a heart of thanks!
I love what my wife says to me from time to time, Richard, the only thing you've got going for you is Jesus!
I now receive that as an honour, as it reveals to me in my perpetual weakness His glorious and perfect strength.
I have been and continue to be so very enriched as our Father expresses Himself to me through your wonder-struck heart for Him.
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