In learning to live loved in the midst of a very unbalanced world there will be times when we are inclined to resort to measures that will appear or seem to be very unhinged in helping others regain theirs. There is an innate knowing that our minds battle with daily when it comes to walking and working out what God has worked into us with regard to our salvation.
The only balance I know of is to continually experience the greatness of his totally freely given unconditional love that somehow uprights our lives and ushers in a sobriety, assurance and a confidence that begins to stabilize us in the midst of a world that increasingly grows more unstable by the second.
God has chosen the foolish, weak, base things of this life, you and me to cut through the masquerading facade of lies by living loved which in turn offers the invitation to living truly balanced in an unbalanced world.
"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
Is God willy-nilly indiscriminately at random, choosing to protect some and others, well, good luck?
Maybe we need a much broader understanding of His protection, perhaps a broader unearthing of most that we have codified and fossilized into lifeless and meaningless dribble! Perhaps it was the Father’s protection in the life of his son that was there making sure nothing happened to him, making it possible for Jesus to fully make it to the cross, even intervening in the Garden where it says he sweated great drops of blood. God sent sustaining angels to under gird him so that he might successfully by grace taste death for us all?
I wonder how much definition Father is establishing in our lives as we go hopelessly along believing the lies that somehow His hand of protection is removed from our lives because of our poor performance?
I so appreciate what Darin Hufford says here from his book, The Misunderstood God,“God’s protection is a Father’s promise to always hold us up in the midst of all circumstances no matter how terrible. Love bears up under anything! It is the support beam that will never give way, even in the midst of unimaginable pressure. The pressures and pains of life are not evidence of a lack of protection; they are the things that prove God’s protection.”
"Understated that there is no escape from adversity and hardship as long as we live in this world. Bad things happen not only to bad people but to all people. The good news is, God will never cease to support and grow our hearts regardless of what is thrown at the flesh. God will never override the heart to save the flesh. Everything He does is for the heart because that’s the part of you that lasts forever. Love always thinks this way. It’s all about the heart.”
Somehow I find this section of scripture most fitting in my musings…”I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more— Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets....Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn't deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world. Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
Imagine simply being me, you, no longer attempting to sell anyone on our Jesus? What if there were no more use of words (and mere words are nothing apart from having an impetus to them) such as my ministry, or ministering, or God using me, or I had an opportunity to ‘share Christ’, with someone, and probably so many more? Would it be like sowing up the pockets of a Frenchman, or an Italian man with their hands in their pockets, causing them to hyperventilate in no longer being able to talk?
The extent of the invasive saturation of the religion of the Matrix is mind boggling, and the inner transformation of His grace freeing us from these cheap artistic (according to us) expressions of trying at best to imitate His life is beyond liberating. OH, can’t you just feel how much lighter that even sounds?
This is not intended as an indictment or a mocking of anyone who still finds themselves sounding or acting this way, freedom is a continuous journey of restoration, discovering from the moment we had been adopted in the family of God, we had everything we ever needed to navigate through the happenings of our daily living. Sadly though, through the infinitesimal slow but steady erosion of our being seduced into a religious mindset that subtly drew us from our only source of life and freedom, has brought us to a place of having but a form of godliness, with no power or liberation.
It truly is sheer delight hearing throughout the body of Christ those questioning just about everything they once simply dumbed down without in many cases even giving it a second thought. Viva the revolution!
If Jesus had resisted, opposed being shut up, shut away for the first 30 years of his life out of His father’s direct leading, all the touched and changed lives would mean nothing. In the near future my wife will be addressing much of that reality regarding the growing up years of this boy, young man called Jesus the Christ, or as he loved to address himself, “the son of man” in a forth coming book.
It was in my opinion what was being written in his heart through all of those long silent years of obscurity that spilled out and over into the desert of lives coping rather than experiencing anything remotely about Life. As the Law had been written long ages ago upon the tablets of stone, God was releasing in the flesh of this God man something that later would be called the law of the spirit of life, making a way back to God where previously there was no way, ergo, the Way, Truth and Life of God was being fleshed out in Jesus.
Looking unto Jesus the author and developer of our faith, is a very long time usually spent in His dark room where He is bringing forth first in secret within our lives that which was first uttered in our being received of the Father, Abba! IN these hidden corridors of our heart he is writing His story, never was there or has there been a story teller like Him, this story is going to be as Paul said in the scriptures, “making us as living bill-boards easily read by all men.”
It is my longing to encourage those who have been tucked away in the out of the way places unseen by men to be confident, assured of His delight in them, to reassure them that He is not in a hurry, it isn’t about changing or touch a lost world as much as it is making His love for them/us a living breathing reality! Behold I do a new thing, in the desert of your life is springing forth life without end.
In the introduction to the book Life After Death by William Landon, he lays the foundation of a discussion of the actualities of the human soul, particularly life after death. He addresses ‘problematic verses’ and apparent inconsistencies that we will or have encountered in reading the scriptures. When this occurs, we need simply to wait and see how the Lord brings the needed clarity. This will prevent us from either throwing the bible out or trying to make things fit to our way of thinking!
I too am one of those many followers of Christ who is living more and more in the realm of not needing or having to know or have ALL the answers. We will receive the understanding from God when we need it. As Jesus said to his disciples, “There are many things which I desire to share with you, but you cannot bear them yet.”
In this dynamic tension of things not gelling or fitting together, our very real adversary the Devil is only too quick to oblige us. To quote Bill, “One of the ways Satan tries to trip us up is by giving us knowledge we are not equipped to constructively handle. This is what happened in the Garden of Eden: You shall not surely die, ‘the serpent said to the woman. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good from evil.” (Genesis 3:4)
“How Satan trapped humanity through the temptation of Adam and Eve in eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was to get our ancestors to take on an understanding they were not ready to receive constructively. The lie of the serpent was that Adam and Eve were ready to receive the knowledge of good and evil. In reality, the fall came as a result of humanity taking on a kind of knowledge that they did not have the right kind of life to use properly (a spiritual life and not just a physical/psychological life)." Case in point: my wife once heard that if a child is exposed to pornography at an early age when s/he is not emotionally or psychologically mature, that the child’s nervous system can actually become permanently impaired. If we are to subscribe to the truth that God is love, we must believe that he knew, in his love for them, that Adam and Eve were not yet ready to receive the knowledge of good and evil.
As a side thought here, later in Genesis 3 God says, “Behold the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”
The kicker here in my thinking is that the knowledge of good and evil was not evil, but it was the motive behind obtaining it apart from God’s timing. There was NO need to be like God, but there was a need to be one with Him, to be joined to Him. That knowledge they obtained via the serpent was a loaded gun so to speak without, as Bill alluded, the ‘right kind of life’ to handle it.
My pondering on all of this has significant ramifications far removed from the Edenic story. In the instant, click-of-a-mouse knowledge-infused Internet-charged world in which we live, is there this same propensity within our flesh to think that through obtaining ‘knowledge’ we can circumvent having to wait or trust God to prepare us for that which we need to know?
His eyes pierce my inner most being with a penetrating longing to make me His own. He asks, Do you know what happened to you when I received you to myself? Do you not know it is who I am... Love, who has called you in your weakness, to awaken within your total emptiness the kiss of my perfect love for you!
Receive my embrace; receive my love for it will be that which will empower you. It is this fertile place of total bankruptcy, utter weakness that I delight in being forever your true strength.
As I was pierced through and through with the tools of torture for you, it is my love that will now pierce your heart freeing you from all you fear!
Some more wonderful thoughts from “Unto Full Stature.”
“As we have said, there are infinite possibilities of expression, yet for our purposes just now, let us consider these nine windows of the soul.” (1) What are these windows of the soul? (2) Why do so many insist on putting up blinds? (3) How will God make us as a house with open windows?
“First, these windows are the lovely capacities built into our soul which enable us to express love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. Immediately you recognize this is the nine-fold fruit of the Spirit. In His lovely intention to express His Son, God has selected these nine varieties of expression in showing the different shades of His loveliness. Whichever window you look in, you simply see Him, our Lord Jesus, in His indivisible loveliness. What a delightful way the Bride in the Song of Solomon expresses this fact: “Behold, my beloved he stands behind our wall, He looking in through the windows, showing (revealing) himself through the blinds” (Song of Solomon 2:9).”
As God the Father continues to fashion me in the depths of His love, I know he is awakening my heart to untold wonders of being His cherished son, and the windows of my soul open ever wider for the world to see. Our brother Paul described this out flow of His personality (life) as “an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.”
For those who haven’t read the original post, I encourage you to read it here.
The following are comments between my wife and our daughter. Our daughter is at University right now and one of the English courses she is taking has brought her to reading Paradise Lost by Milton, she our daughter is a true artist in numerous ways, one being a poet. I love how Papa is making the sureness of His unalterable love known to so many, especially my precious wife and daughter, and of course, not forgetting my first born, Matthew!
Please feel free to dive in and hear Father’s heart of love calling you to BE HIS treasured one!
Rich
I was thinking about your Paradise Lost classes: you said they were boring, so... just to shake things up, when you get to the part where Eve gets blamed for everything, just innocently ask, "Where was Adam when the serpent tempted Eve? Wasn't his job to protect her?"
Because...I have this theory and it's that not only was Adam fully aware of what was going on with Eve and Lucifer, but that he LET HER TO TAKE THE FALL!!! Yes! I think HE was the one who secretly harboured a feverish desire in his heart to eat of the forbidden fruit, made all the more attractive because God said he couldn't have it! Adam was right there and could have stepped in at any time to throw Satan out on his pointy ear...but he did not. The result? 2000 years later, women are still getting blamed, and men are still ruling.
The whole man-up theory came to me after having spent the morning talking with our house guest, Ron. I started to think about how women most often have to shoulder the responsibilities for wimpy, indecisive, non-committal men (think single moms raising kids while working 2 or 3 jobs, getting no child support, etc.). Women who man-up more often and more effectively than men!
I'd be interested in your thoughts.
I am enjoying the Milton class more now that we're delving into paradise lost. In the text, Adam and Eve were working together in the garden, and Eve wanted to assert her independence and capability and suggested they work separately to get more work done. Adam consents nervously, as he recently had had a conversation with an angel about the danger they are in, especially eve, in terms of temptation. So they were separate at the time, but you're right, Adam, knowing that Eve was in danger of getting seduced, consented. This may suggest his own desire for the tree of knowledge vis a vis Eve. And then when she eats of it, Adam just couldn't live without her and so he eats too. That excuse seems pretty see-through, you're right. I may very well write about this as there's a while lot to say about how this story represents the intense subjugation of generations of women after. I was also thinking about writing about book two of P.L, when the council of the fallen angels meet. It's very ironic how they are so polite, cunning, and extremely reasonable with each other - it completely mirrors the political 'values' of today - how one can rationalize any evil and make it look reasonable!
I also know very well about wimpy indecisive non-committal men. Frank and Steven were both, fortunately, committed. However, they were both wimpy and indecisive! I've always craved that stability in a partner, one who I feel completely safe around, one who is a solid support. I want someone who I can trust to make decisions so that I am not the one doing it all the time. Neither has ever been able to put me in my place, which I do crave, because I get all the power that I do not especially want.
Steven is a solid support emotionally and in terms of commitment, but boy oh boy is he wimpy and indecisive! I feel more like the man most of the time (sometimes a tyrant), cooking and making decisions, helping him out a LOT in that way. He's very non-confrontational and has never had to work while he's in school. He cowers pathetically under his father's support. Plus he's a thirty year old man and this is the longest relationship he's ever been in. I took BIG issue to his past of non-commitment and strings of girlfriends. He can't possibly comprehend why that would bother me, and then turns the guilt onto me for 'bullying' him about his past!
Do I not have a reason to have a hard time trusting someone who has dated innumerable girls and broken many a heart? Stephen is a sweet guy to the core, but he is a fearful guy when it comes to that. So it is an honour and a curse that he is so devoted to me because I have somehow broken this chain, but I am also schooling him constantly about what a relationship is after the honeymoon: work!
I loved reading your letter! I love how you think! You made ME think!
You wrote: So they were separate at the time, but you're right, Adam, knowing that Eve was in danger of getting seduced, consented.
Now, Milton is taking some license here, of course - he had to think up something to explain Eve's downfall. So he intimated she had set the stage herself by not being submissive to Adam - making her out to be the guiltier of the two.
Here's the actual biblical account:
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
"WHO WAS WITH HER"!!!
The CAD!!!
(Guess Milton missed that little clause about Adam standing right there)
And for ages we've been led to believe, as Milton suggests, that 'Adam just couldn't live without her'. Yeah, right. My guess is that he couldn't wait to take a bite! He was standing right there, listening to every word and didn't do a blessed thing. I'll bet he was counting on Eve taking the rap! After all, he described her to God as "the woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree" As if he was absolutely powerless, the poor thing! AND - it sounds to me as if he's also trying to shift the blame on God when he says 'the woman whom YOU gave to be with me". If God had not given him that woman, well, none of this would have happened!
Let's not forget that Adam had been given authority and dominion over everything on earth, including the fowls of the air and the fish in the sea! But there was one thing he did NOT have - and that was the knowledge of good and evil. Hmmmm...
Bottom line? They were both equally responsible, but over the centuries man has distorted what actually happened in the garden to his own advantage to justify his subjugation of women.
Just my thoughts, but fun to think about!
I liked the picture your dad used on his blog to go with the "Man-up" article. If you look closely on the "Manly Man Sale", somebody has written "Doesn't Exist"!
I continue to emphasize the fact that it is a revelation not a seminar of who Christ is, and of course out of this flows His full and complete love for us. This revelation is setting into motion those who have been stymied in the vice of fear, shame, and self-consciousness just to mention a few inhibitors.
Peter was the one who spoke up regarding Jesus two fold question, the first being, “Who do men say that I am, and the second, Who do you say I am?” Like a cannon ball blasting out, Peter says, “You are the Christ, the son of the living God.” Jesus knows this revelatory experience Peter is experiencing is not as a result of how smart or dumb he is, but something the Father has permitted him to see/know. On the basis of this revelation Jesus talks about further things that have been so badly warped and disfigured, a hernia would look less twisted. I have no intention of looking at this other than to ask, was this enough, seeing that Jesus was the Christ?
It says from that point on after telling them (his disciples) not to tell any man that he was the Christ, he began clearly and openly showing how he must go up to Jerusalem and be put to death and after three days rise again. Here comes the point of what I’m asking, Peter hears this doom and gloom death talk from Jesus and begins to rebuke Him, ouch! Peter is gong to forbid this from happening if he can, until Jesus lovingly says to him, “Get behind me Satan, you are an offense to me, you are consumed with how a mere man thinks, not how God thinks.”
Jesus begins to expound on the reason for the cross, by the way, this was not included in Peter’s revelation of who Jesus was, but was most definitely a must know! Without a revelation of why Christ had come, Peter along with all of humanity would eventually perish in their sin. Please read it here. The son of man, Jesus the Christ was fully identified with us, humanity, so that we could become fully identified with God the Father. If we are not frustrating His grace, then the purpose and intention of the Father will be accomplished in our lives. Let’s look at that purpose and intention, according to the Scriptures, from before the foundations of the world.
“That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.”
The Father has in Christ committed his heart (his love/life) to and for us, he is not asking us for service, or sacrifices, or even obedience, he’s aiming at something for more vital, our hearts. He has called and chosen us, not the other way around, to BE His! Without a unshakable foundation of His love laid down in our hearts, we will never know what this romance and deep intimacy is all about, that he is wanting to initiate all part of our birthright. There will be NO ability to give up the right to self in us apart from knowing His love. It was this very thing that Peter learned the hard way. When Jesus said that everyone was going to forsake Him, Peter not knowing His love tried to cover up the true lies he was unknowingly choosing to believe, “Lord I will go to jail for you, I will even lay my life down for you.” Jesus turned and spoke loving words that must have seemed more like a surgeons scalpel impaling Peter’s heart, “Peter Jesus said, before the rooster crows once you will deny me three times.”
The crushing and demolishing that came into Peter’s life was not because the Father hated Peter, but he knew full well that living less loved, or not knowing His love, he was going to suffer badly because of choosing to do things his way. Father is calling, choosing you to know how much you are loved, there is no escaping the trouble in this world apart from a revelation of being Loved so that we might live Loved, will you let Him Love you?
I receive regular news letter emails from a brother who freely shares how Christ is continuing making himself real in his life. This last email he had a link to a short article that significantly tied in with things Father had put upon his heart, it’s this article I want to share here, The Grace of Wrath.
If the bottom line is that God IS Love, then we are going to have to line everything up that touches our lives as well as the lives of all those around us, with the truth of that unshakable, undeniable reality, but guaranteed this is going to be a white water shooting over the rapids ride, so buckle your seat belt, this is not intended for the faint of heart.
“My beloved friends let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.”
For way too long the suffering have had to settle for such empty religious platitudes regarding the injustice, heartaches, and compounded hurts they have endured with pointed and heartless jabs such as this: “God’s ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are not His thoughts,” so stop your moaning and groaning and get on with life no matter how cruel and unfair it keeps getting!
The eternal purpose and plan of God the Father was to have a house, his house filled with sons and daughters. Our spiritual birth right is that we were and are created to be filled to over flowing with the true experiential knowing (day in day out) of his unconditional loving acceptance of us. It says in Romans 8:28 a most often misquoted verse only because it is unfortunately separated from the rest of the good news that flows with this one isolated verse. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” And that unfortunately is where it ends for way to many sadly. It goes on to say and define how this working together of all things is going to be accomplished: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predetermine to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.”
I like this from the Message Bible: “God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.”
Apart from an initial and continued revelation of this God and Father of love, this so called life most of us live is nothing more than a sadistic cruel joke muffling out any laughter. There is no way to even approach this God with out faith it says, but guess what, He is wanting to do just that, offer the intangible to us, His abounding love from deep within to ask Him directly what the truth really is about your pain filled and broken lives!
I’m going to end here with a most powerful word from the Scriptures, I hope any reading this will go directly to God by simply asking Him, I want to know the truth for myself. There is so much more to His grace than what we have settled for, allow Him to set you free from all and any lies, He LOVES you!
Let’s look at an imaginary scenario for a minute, let’s say our brother Paul is about to open his heart as well as his mouth to share what Father has put there for this gathering. In his mind there is a stampede of thoughts such as, I just know there is so much stinking thinking, such polluted distorted thoughts rampant in the minds of everyone here, what I have to say will never be understood, maybe I best just wait until all of this mind pollution gets swept away first, or hell freezes over, which ever comes first.
We laugh, but are we any different now as it was then? Maybe Paul knew that what he was sharing was not dependent upon his verbal expertise, but in fact he totally relied upon the power of His spirit, like a laser to cut through all and anything that would try to oppose an inner revelation of the goodness and love of the Father’s heart toward those listening.
I love this from the Message Bible; “The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out. It's written, I'll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I'll expose so-called experts as crackpots. So where can you find someone truly wise, truly educated, truly intelligent in this day and age? Hasn't God exposed it all as pretentious nonsense? Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb—preaching, of all things!—to bring those who trust him into the way of salvation.”
Aren’t we, I’ll speak for me here in my question, trusting Him from the sublime to the ridiculous, to reveal the giver of life living in us as us? Whether it is but a smile, a thank you or a much more involved form of intercourse, it’s the Life of Christ interacting with your and my world that we live in.
Doesn’t it just melt your heart, take your breath away knowing that the unseen (by so many) God and Father of heaven and earth is in plain sight, going from isle to isle selecting the needed groceries, refilling the gas tank on the car, paying the property taxes at the bank, mowing the lawn, washing the car, taking the dog for a walk!
In the Old Testament the sacred holy box called the Ark of the Covenant was a transportable device that moved under the power of men instructed by God when and where He wanted to go. Inside this holy relic were different artefact's, one of them was the Shekinah Glory of God; the ark was made from a special wood all overlaid with pure gold. It was a temporary at best picture of something far more real and exciting. We now ARE those living ark’s, where ever you and I go, the glorious One, Christ in us the hope of Glory goes, and interacts with all we come in contact with. The kicker is, this is all being done so wonderfully unobtrusively. I love the language Paul uses, “we are living epistles, bill-boards being read of all men,” how much more real can He be!
Bottom line, as Jesus himself said, as the Scriptures have said, “He who believes in me, out of his innermost being shall spring forth rivers of love-life" to a love-life parched world of people, how, by us BEING and living Loved.
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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