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Nature part 4

09/02/2019 20:16

If it's your nature, it's what comes natural to you. That makes sense, right? So if you're doing what comes natural to you, you don't need to struggle with it. You can let it flow. Let me quote John 7:38 again, but this time from the Amplified Bible, "He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water." A couple of things here. First being--to believe is more than just saying, "Yeah, I think God is probably real." It is so much more than that. It is cleaving to Him. Trusting in Him. Relying on Him. It is, quite literally, putting our lives in His hands. Making sure that when we do what we do, we are doing it in the right way, and for the right reason. Doing it heartily--to the best of our ablilites, and because it is in our heart to do it. That's love. And love is maximum effort. That's why when I talk about rest I always try to qualify it by saying, "Rest is NOT inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity." And, since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth--the ultimate truth of the universe that God is love and He loves you--we can be assured that the Holy Spirit will never direct us to do anything except love. Now, having said that, I want to point out Acts 16:6, "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia." The Holy Ghost--the Holy Spirit--knows what's best for you. I Rant all the time about how I know that I am not for everybody. We don't need to--and shouldn't--put ourselves in bad positions under the label of "loving everybody." Some people you need to love from a distance. That's just the way it is. You don't have to be against them. You can turn the other cheek and refuse to retaliate. But you don't have to stand there and let people continue to slap you. What father would want his son to be abused? So when we're talking about letting what's inside flow out from innermost being, when we're talking about living naturally and not struggling all the time, that goes for relationships too. If you have to force it all the time, and it just doesn't fit, maybe it's not for you. That's ok. Not everything--or everybody--is. If it doesn't fit, don't try to wear it. Just be natural. Just be cool. Let the Holy Ghost lead you. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are called (or identified as) the Son(s) of God, right? People will know we are disciples of Jesus by our love. It's all about love. And as badly as we want love, the truth of the matter is that loving people is the most natural--and the most holy, and the most powerful--thing that we can do. Let me say it like this: If you want to feel love... love somebody. Give what you've got. Joy in THEIR joy. But don't try to force a square peg into a round hole. Let it go and let it flow. Let love guide the way, but make sure you are loving in the right way. Sometimes you try to "love" someone too hard and they can't handle it. They reject it. And it feels like they're rejecting you. Sometimes less is more. Sometimes the least you can do is the most you can do. So just let the love that's inside come out. Naturally. By believing in--cleaving to, trusting in, and relying on--the God who is love!

Nature part 3

09/01/2019 20:07

The trick is to stop trying to be something and just let what you have--who you are--flow naturally. That's how nature works. You can't force nature. You can't fake it until you make it. And, listen, I think it's probably better to force yourself to be nice when you don't feel like it than to be mean. Self control, believe it or not, is a fruit of the Spirit. Being nice when you don't want to isn't being fake. It's being mature. But, as always, there's a more excellent way. A more excellent Way. Capital W. Because that more excellent Way IS the Way (and the Truth, and the Life). That more excellent Way is Jesus. Love. And better than pretending to like someone (when you don't) is loving someone. Loving EVERYONE. I saw this in a TV show one time where they said a goofball character was too nice to people. And he responded with, "Oh, I just like everybody. It's easier that way." And that's kind of how it feel. It takes to much energy to hate people. And I don't want that negativity in my life, in any event. It's unnatural. If love is our nature--and it is--than anything outside of that is unnatural. And if you're filled with love--and you are--then there isn't room for anything else. So why give your three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) to things that you don't need and don't have room for anyway? Why not, instead, set your affection on things above, and not things on the earth? Sounds smart to me. Sounds peaceful. We get so bogged down when we focus on the wrong things. Worrying about what's wrong instead of celebrating what's right. Exhausting. Pointless. To me, that's the thief that Jesus spoke about. We rob OURSELVES of the gift we've been given when we focus on all the wrong things. And, really, I believe that we have an internal compass. Our heart. It (HE, Jesus, love) will lead us. If we will follow. If you want to understand your "new" (true) nature... let your heart guide the way. Trust your gut. Follow your heart. Do the things you do because it is in your heart to do them. Understanding the fundamental, unconditional, ultimate truth of the universe--that God is love and He loves you--is the only way for us to accept and embrace who we really are. We want to be loved. We need to be loved. So if we don't know that we are loved, we will do anything we can to get that love. We'll try to be anybody we think we "should" be in order to get what we want. We'll try to do anything to get what we need. But, again, that's unnatural. That goes against our true nature. Our true nature is one of rest. Of flowing. Not fighting. Not scraping and clawing. Not swiming upstream and trying to get, get, get. I think I'm gonna hit this hard tomorrow, but our natural position is a posture of rest. That's when what's inside flows out. God's grace fills us up to overflowing so that we couldn't keep it in if we wanted to. And it's so good that we won't--when we really understand what it is--we won't want to keep it in. Love is giving. When you give... you love. And when you love, you feel love. Giving what we have and who we are from a posture of rest that is only possible because of the grace of God... that's why we're here. That's why we were created: To be loved and to love each other with that same love!

Nature part 2

08/31/2019 19:53

In order to let our "new" (true) nature flow out from our innermost being we have to understand that it is not something we need. Not something to aspire to. Not something to fake it until we make it. It is the grace of God, lavishly heaped onto us, that equips and empowers us to stop trying to be someone we're not and simply be who we are. I think that's the biggest mindset shift we need to have: I AM who I need to be. God created me the way HE wanted me to be. I don't need to change. There are some behaviors that I might need to let go of... some mindsets that need to shift... I might need to set my affection on things above and not on things on the earth. But I am who I am. And that's who I'm supposed to be. God doesn't want to change you. He wants to shine His light of love on you until you see who you really are. Who you have always been. And the only way to see who you really are is to see who God really is. Because He is our true identity. Jesus--God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. That's who we are. That's our nature. The love nature. And I started putting "new" in quotation marks because it isn't really new at all. If anything, it is a return to the old. Not the Old Testament. But the original state of things. When God walked with His creation in the cool of the evenings. When man was naked but not ashamed. And--I'm pretty sure I'm going to do a whole naked Rant series here in a little bit--I think nakedness, more than anything, is openness. Vulnerability. Not hiding things or covering things. That's our true nature. I believe that even dishonest people feel better when they are honest. Like, maybe there's a thrill of putting one over on someone, but that doesn't last. I believe that there IS a light inside of all of us. And that His name is Jesus. Sometimes that light is hidden. Or covered up. But I think it's still there. Just waiting for revelation--which means uncovering, right? I don't think... look, when Paul wrote about not being conformed to the world, that means that we--already--are not in or of the world. Otherwise he would have called us to come out of the world. He was saying, "Don't let what ISN'T you pull you in." Don't be conformed. You're free. Don't let anything, or anybody (including yourself), put you in prison. Don't focus on what's wrong, I think is what I'm trying to say. Focus on what's right. If you're always trying to squash "bad behavior," how do you have time for any "good behavior"? But if you're focused on the grace of God... the mercy of God... the forgiveness and love of God... then you'll be full of... God. Filled to overflowing with what you've already been filled with. What you feed is what will grow. And the best way to kill something is to starve it. Just don't give those "bad" things your time or attention. Don't worry about what's "wrong." Just maximize what's right. Stop trying to be someone you're not and just really figure out, and embrace, who you are. Get in where you fit in. Don't conform to what people (or the world) say you're "supposed" to be. Just be natural. Find those things that set your heart on fire and do those things to the best of your ability. That's how we live life to the fullest. Not by doing what people tell us to, but by doing what our HEART tells us to!

Nature part 1

08/30/2019 19:53

I keep telling you guys (repeating myself over and over) that I repeat myself. Because there are some things that are heavy on my heart that I feel are very important. That I feel I have at least a bit of a handle on. (Having said that, I don't write because I have it all figured out. I write to figure it out.) But tonight I want to take an idea that I Rant about often--the nature of love, and how love is our true nature--and kind of take it in a little bit of a different direction. I want to talk about WHY things come natural to us. I want to talk about WHY we do the things we do. Kind of a, "What's my motivation?" deal. And, bottom line, we SHOULD do things because they are in our hearts to do them. Love should be our one and only motivation. Now, having said that kind of broad, sweeping statement, let's dive into it. And let's start with 2 Corinthians 9:8, "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." That's it in a nutshell. Because God has filled--and continues to fill--us up with grace... we can stop chasing and start sharing what we've got. We ALWAYS have sufficiency in ALL things. And because of that, we may abound to every good work. It's such a shift in thinking when we know--with a experiencial heart knowledge that passes head knowledge--that we have no lack because our God has no lack. When we understand the ultimate truth of the universe: God is love and He loves you. "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand" (John 3:35). We don't need to GET anything, because we already HAVE everything. When the shift from needing and trying to get... changes to having and trying to give... that's when everything falls into place. That's when we can stop trying and start flowing. One more memory verse for today, John 7:38 (MSG), "Rivers of living water will brim and spill out of the depths of anyone who believes in me this way, just as the Scripture says." When you know what you've got inside... it comes out. Naturally. It has to. It's too big not to. So what I'm trying to say, in my normal roundabout hope my point comes together way, is that it's not about trying. If you're trying to do something, it obviously isn't coming natural to you. And while I'm not saying you should never try, in the context of "if at first you don't succeed, try try again," I AM saying that you SHOULDN'T try to be someone you're not. That's impossible. Trying to do something you've never done, and learning from your mistakes and failures, is part of the process of learning and growing. That's all good. That's proper. But going against your "new" (TRUE) nature is different. Ignoring that still, small voice inside you and listening to the lie of the world is what gets us into trouble so many times. So what we need to do, and this is thrust of this Rant series, is we need to get comfortable with grace. We need to need to get comfortable with not chasing things. With the truth that we have what we need and we are who we're supposed to be. We need to stop hating ourselves (and each other) and start embracing ourselves (and each other)!

Unconditional part 5

08/29/2019 19:59

Nothing can separate us from the love of God. That's what I've been trying to say in this Rant series. God's love for us is unconditional. It comes without conditions. It came before we came, and it stayed through everything. Like my son and I say every night, "I love you and I can't stop loving you." So, having said all that, let's look at a couple of verses in Mark chapter 7. I'm going to jump around a little bit for the sake of time. Mark 7:9, "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." And onto Mark 7:13, "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye." This is what we take from that: "I'm stronger than God. What I want is more important than what He wants. I can make His word of none effect. I can reject it and keep my own traditions." But here's the straight truth: God loves you, always has and always will. That's the straight truth, and the ultimate truth of the universe. Nothing can stop God from loving us. Nothing. And, I gotta say, I didn't REALLY understand that level of love--a Father loving His Son--until I had a son. And then, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, I got it. Because nothing will ever stop me from loving my son. Nothing. Ever. It doesn't matter what he does, or doesn't do. Because love isn't about what you do. Love is about who you are. And who God is. He IS love. He would have to stop being Himself in order to stop loving us. So while Jesus--yeah, the red letters, Jesus--said that our traditions make the word of God of none effect... I think He meant that when we get so caught up in our traditions--in what we're doing--we miss out on what HE'S doing. He's still doing it. We are not separated from His love. He can never, and will never, stop loving us. It's like when Adam and Eve hid from the presence of God. His presence was still there. Nothing had changed on His end. When they were ashamed of their nakedness... He fixed their problem. Not because HE had a problem, but because He didn't want THEM to have a problem. We can make the Word of God (which is Jesus, which is love) of none effect--to a degree--in our lives by rejecting it. But that doesn't change anything on God's part. He is not a spurned lover. He doesn't say, "Whelp. I offered. You said no. Smell ya later." I heard one preacher say it like this, "God is a stalker." He will never give up on us. Even when we give up on Him. He doesn't walk away. He stands firm and draws us to Himself. When He was lifted up from the earth on the cross, He drew us all into Himself. Planted Himself in all of us. He said, "This is where I want to be and I'm not ever leaving." I Ranted the other day about how the weakness of God is greater than man. Because His weakness IS man. He has a soft spot in His heart for us. He wants what is best for us. He has made it availabe. But we have to reach out and accept it. Receive it and release it. Receive it by releasing it. Release it by receiving it. It's available. It's right here. Inside of us. Don't reject it. Accept it. Let what's inside come out, by knowing and believing that it's in there!

Unconditional part 4

08/28/2019 20:45

I want to string three verses together tonight that, hopefully, will show us the "unconditional" aspect of God's unconditional love for us. Ready? Let's go. 1 Kings 8:57, "The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us nor forsake us." Which to me is kind of us trying to reassure ourselves. He was with our fathers... He's gotta be with us, right? And then Psalm 27:9, "Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation." A straight up plea. Things are getting hairy down here. I'm in trouble. Break glass in case of emergency. Well... it's an emergency. Please don't leave me when I'm down and out. Because if you don't, I might be down but I'll never be out! And finally, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Hebrews 13:5). Finally, when we move into the New Covenant, it's just straight up and down put out there. We don't need to worry about what anybody else has, or what anybody else is doing. Because God is with us. He said He'd never leave us nor forsake us. And He can't lie. Because He IS the truth. It's more than just, "God said it so it must be true." It's true BECAUSE God said it. It is impossible for God to lie. Let God be true and all men be liars, right? And His truth is His love. His truth is, "I love you, I love you, I love you and I'll never stop loving you." Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing. Not even our own issues. God didn't care that we were naked. But when something changed inside US, and all of a sudden WE cared... God gave us a covering. He gave us HIMSELF as a covering. We tried fig leaves. But the fig true couldn't bear fruit. So God gave us a covering of skins. Lamb skin. He drew us into Himself when He was lifted up on the cross. And He planted Himself in us. The Tree of Life. Which always bears fruit. The fruit of the Spirit. Which is love. It ONLY bears one type of fruit. Because love is all we need. And, yes, love does come in many different shapes and sizes. It has to. So that it CAN fit into any situation. But it still boils down to love. Love is what we need. All of the time. But especially when we feel like we don't have anything. When we feel like we've given everything we've got. Or when we feel like we're missing something. It's always love. If there's a God-shaped, love-shaped hole inside you... what else could possibly fill it? Only God. And God is love. So only love can fill that hole, or that void. That's why people have been crying out for it. Especially when it feels like it's the farthest away. People who are "hard to love" need it the most. Because they aren't getting it anywhere. But we need to be strong in our faith. Secure in the truth of the matter. Which, one more time, is that God is love and He loves you. That's the ultimate truth of the universe and nothing can change it. Not even, and we're going to look at this tomorrow to close down this Rant series... you!

Unconditional part 3

08/27/2019 19:55

If it's not unconditional, it's not love. That's what's on my heart these days. If you're picking flower petals saying, "He loves me, He loves me not," and just hoping and praying that you end up on "He loves me," then, well, you're not enjoying love. Or life. Which, really, are the same thing. To live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other because they are the same thing. They aren't just connected. They are literally the same thing. God is love. God is life. And I'm not out here talking about all the rules and regulations, all the dos and don'ts that we generally seem to associate with God. I'm talking about something bigger. Deeper. I'm talking about truly living. Not trying to fit into a box. Not trying to be someone we're not in order to get something we think we haven't got. I'm talking about the connection between God and man. Which manifests between man and man. I'm talking about how it is not good for man to be alone. How we need each other. And if we put conditions on this love--either as we receive it from God, or as we release it to each other--than we're really not going to be able to experience or enjoy the gift we've been given. If we think it's all about what someone does then we've really missed the point. I started this Rant series with the passage of Scripture about how nothing--NOTHING--can separate us from the love of God. But we separate ourselves from each other at the slightest provocation. We let anything and everything come between us. We build mountains out of molehills and we sit on top of those mountains making sure nobody else can climb them. We build walls. We draw lines in the sand. And, listen, at some point you need healthy boundaries. Letting people walk all over you isn't love. I saw a quote the other day that said, "We are commanded to love everyone. We are not commanded to be in relationship with everyone #healthyboundaries." Like I always say, turning the other cheek is about not retaliating, not about letting people keep slapping you. But if you WANT to be in relationship with someone... listen. You have to be a friend if you want to have a friend. If you're always portraying yourself as the victim... for a while that might get you sympathy, but nobody wants to be around someone like that. You have to take responsibility for your own actions. And the best way to do that is to do everything you do in love. Because of love. With love. "What's my motivation?" I did it because it was in my heart to do it. When we really understand the nature of (unconditional) love, we will stop judging people by appearance and we will only judge righteous judgment. We will love people no matter what. Not because of what they've done... but because of who WE are. Not because they "deserve it" or don't deserve it... but because we have something to give. Something that they need. And if they won't receive it from us? That's ok. Just shrug your shoulders and move on down the road. But you can't put conditions on love. You can't make people jump through hoops in order to "earn" love. Love is a gift. And a gift can't be earned. Period. It is freely given, and it must be received. That's relationship. Connection. Love!

Unconditional part 2

08/26/2019 18:54

I just want to grab one piece of my main passage of Scripture for this Rant and really dig into it today. And it's the piece that says nakedness shall not separate us from the love of Christ. I think there's a big misconception here about nakedness. So let's start at the beginning. Way back in Genesis 2:25 we see, "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Which I always thought was interesting. Because it seems like these days it seems like being naked IS something to be ashamed of. Like, it's funny when you're a little baby and you run around without a diaper on, but then it very quickly gets shameful and embarrassing. Why though? It's just our bodies. We're all just human. Well, move on down the story of Adam and Eve and you'll see that it wasn't until after they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that their nakedness became an issue. Genesis 3:7, "And the eyes of them both were opoened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." This verse, by the way--along with the one about Jesus cursing the fig tree later on--is why I think it was a fig that they ate and not an apple. As soon as they ate from the wrong tree they tried to cover themselves. And what was at hand? Fig leaves. Now Genesis 3:10, "And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." Not only were Adam and Eve naked and ashamed... they were naked and afraid. But why though? God never had a problem with their nakedness. They were naked before they ate from the wrong tree and it didn't bother God. Basically God said, "You were naked yesterday. What's different about today?" Genesis 3:11, "And he said, Who told thee thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" That's such an important question. "Who told you you were naked?" Who made you feel ashamed about who you are? Who put that thought in your head? God never had a problem with us being naked. He created us that way. It didn't matter to Him. But now watch this. This is so important. And so good. God runs through a whole list of consequences--NOT PUNISHMENT--that resulted from the man and woman not listening to Him. They ate from the tree of death... and the only thing that COULD come from that tree was death. But then, after all of that, He addresses their new problem. Not HIS problem. THEIR problem. Genesis 3:21, "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skin, and clothed them." And I can pretty much guarantee you that was Lamb skin. God clothed us... with Himself. Not because HE had a problem with our nakedness... but because WE had a problem with our nakedness. We CREATED a problem with our nakedness and God still loved us enough to fix that problem for us. Why? Because He loves us. And He didn't want us to be ashamed or afraid. Nakedness, to me, is about vulnerability more than anything else. It's about honesty. Nothing hidden, or covered. And that's nothing to be afraid of or ashamed of. That's how we build true relationships. Connection. It's not something that should separate us from each other, and it's certainly not something that separates us from God!

Unconditional part 1

08/25/2019 19:59

I know I repeat myself. That's on purpose. One of the (many) things my father has taught me is that one of the best ways to learn something is through repetition. And, quite frankly, I think there are some things--Spiritually speaking--that I am qualified to Rant about. So rather than straying outside of my lane, I'd rather just dive in deep to the things that fill my heart up. I don't have to preach everything. There are a lot of preachers out there. I just need to share what's in my heart. So, with that in mind, I'm going to drop a decent sized passage of Scripture today and then spend the next few days really diving into it. But before I do I want to say my piece about this idea. Ready? Ok. If it's not unconditional... it's not love. Look at Romans 8:35-39, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distrees, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, not things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." I know there's a lot there. But basically it says, "God is love and He loves you." Period. The ultimate truth of the universe. The problem, of course, is that we look at ourselves and we see all the worst things we've ever done. We hear all the worst things people have ever said about us. And we believe that that's who we are. We believe that we are unloveable. But I've said many times that the people that are hardest to love are the people that need love the most. Because they aren't getting it. Because they're hard to love. There's no such thing as being "deserving" of love, unless you understand that EVERYBODY is deserving of love. That's why we were created. We were created to be loved by God and to love Him back by loving each other. Love is the whole point of the whole thing. And it's not something to be earned. It's a gift that is freely given. Nothing can separate us from God's love. Not even needing to earn it. We already have it. You can't be separated from something you don't have. That's where we have to start--I am loved. God is love and He loves me. Always has and always will. It's so important that we have the right foundation. If you're always searching for something (as if you want it, but don't have it) then you'll never be able to experience it. I'm telling you right now--look. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. If you need to start there, start there. You can't believe something you don't know. Knowing and believing is the Divine Order. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word (which is Jesus, which is love) of God. So understand where we're starting. God has always and will always love you. He IS love. That's not just what He does. That's who He is. And His love is absolutely, completely, totally... unconditional!

Weakness part 5

08/24/2019 19:16

I think what I've been trying to say for the last few days is that being weak is just part of the human condition. It's not something to deny, or try to hide. It, really, is something to embrace. To accept. I totally and completely accept my math weakness. It's simply a part of who I am. Now look at this memory verse, "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb" (Romans 4:19). The backstory here is Abraham and Sara having a baby way after it should have been possible. Not because of any physical strength of their own. According to the Scripture Sara's womb was dead and so was Abraham's body. That's about as weak as it gets. But in one way Abraham was strong. In the only way we need to be strong. He was strong in faith. He knew HE couldn't do it... but he also knew the one who could. Let me say it another way: "Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23). Now, to be clear, Jesus was referring to Himself in this verse. He is the One who believes with perfect faith. All our faith has to do is connect us with Jesus. And then HIS faith gets us to where we need to be. We believe in, and on, Jesus. That's the strength that we need. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. That's when He has the room, and opportunity, to operate. That's how this thing works. If we think we can do it ourselves, I believe God will, to a degree, let us. I believe we have a measure of free will. But I also believe that God wants the very best for us at all times. So it would behoove us to, you know, NOT try to do it all by ourselves. To, as Psalm 37:5 says, "Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." Now listen. I'm a big believer in taking care of business. Doing what you gotta do. That's life, man. But if you really want to succeed in life... to thrive instead of merely surviving... then you ought to commit your way unto the Lord. Stop trying to do it all yourself. Stop trying to do what you think you're "supposed" to do all the time, and start doing what you were created to do. Let your heart be your guide. Let love lead you. Do what you do heartily--to the best of your ability, and because it's in your heart to do it. Abraham and Sara wanted a child so bad. They even tried to take a little shortcut to get it. But in the end, it was their faith in God that brought about the promise. They couldn't do it on their own. Too weak. But the one are in which Abraham was NOT weak... was faith. Jesus said it over and over, "Ye of little faith." Because faith is only strength that really matters. Knowing and believing the ultimate truth of the universe--that God is love and He loves you. Love can overcome any other weakness. So let love in. Be strong in what matters, and don't worry about the rest of it. You don't have to do everything. And you don't have to do everything (or anything, really) all by yourself. You always have the Comforter with you. IN you. You can always give what you've got. When you know what you've got. When you know that you've got love!

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