1 Thes 4:11 -- ..and aspire to live quietly and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may live properly before outsiders and be dependent on noone.
2 Thes 3:8,9 -- ..but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.. an example to imitate.
Cross-ref these with the doctrine of doing all things to the glory of God.
"Sin is not so much what you do but who you do it against." - my friend Dave
This is a beautiful understanding of sin, that really helps so much to understand how breaking one law is the same as breaking all. Found it while looking thru some notes from earlier this year. The more I think about this small little antecdote, not so profound but totally profound, the more guilt of sin makes sense.
Father, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, oh Lord my Rock and my Refuge.
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It's the next morning, and upon checking Harrisonburg weather (closest place I could think of near where my precious sister in Christ camped out last night), it wasn't precipitating. Praise God! At least the freezing temperatures and rain would presumably keep away random bored mountain men. Seriously praising God for this. I pray she doesn't come home with mono though.. my roommate told me that he was hot in his 0 degree mummy bag in 20 degree weather.. still, I'd rather be cold with her. Guess I could've slept outside here at the house as moral support..
Bloughts for the day (yesterday and this morning).
Praying for a productive day, of delighting in Him. Desiring Christ. Seeing His glory.. getting everyday things done to His glory.
Ok last blought -- shouldn't "delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of our heart" be our obvious way of addressing lack of direction and motivation? Lacking desire, be delighting in the Lord. IN it, HIS desires (good for you to have) will be YOUR desires. English fails with this explanation.. ahh. NOT, Jesus will give you what YOU want, but this MECHANISM of WANTING, in our heart - CHRIST will cause it to generate desire for what He WANTS you to desire, utlimately HIMSELF! But, even shy of the endpoint of this, I'm praying that seeking delight in Him will find me in place where my desires ARE HIS desires, for the smallest of things (what CLOTHES to wear today!), and especially bigger life decisions. Being transformed by the renewing our minds, that we would KNOW the WILL of God, how good and perfect and pleasing. Thank You righteous Father. To be a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable (in Christ) to God, our spiritual worship. Delighting in the Lord is associated with renewing our minds (not comforming to the world), and with being wise (being not foolish), in regards to what they produce, a knowing of His will. Praise You my God. Make me a worshipper, for You are God. You will be exalted in all the earth, in all the nations.. let me be still. I will wait for You, for apart from You I can do nothing. Yes You can redeem even the most fleshly of my attempts to do my own conception of Your work, but in LOVE for You, WHY WOULD I even attempt this? Jesus, be my all.
My Rock and my Salvation. I love that, YOU are the Way. Let me love not things, but You. Especially when my heart is numb, let this be the greatest of gifts, that there are NO competing desires with a desire for You, oh God. A season for everything, there will be desires for other things that do compete with You, but let me thank You for this time. As You increase my desire for You (You could do it in a second Lord, will You?).. Jesus, let my love for You grow deep and may its fruit be a self-sacrificing love for others, and in a special way for the precious sister You have sovereignly placed in my life. Idolatry - Solomon-esque type idolatry of women - cannot feign the self-sacrificing love required for pursuing a woman in righteousness.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Post One
Hello, blog.
Tried starting a blog last year around this time, and was excited to post one posting:). I recently viewed a friend's blog and was totally encouraged to do this. I dont really look at blogs, in fact I feel kind of weird saying and typing the word "blog". Blog Blog Blog. See that doesn't help really.
Truth. I need it. My life needs it. In Person form. The Way the Truth and the Life. I need Him to change me. I need to focus. I need to redeem the time. I pray this can help me, and I pray this can help anyone else who would read it. I need to set parameters for how much I write or I'll look at the clock and realize it's been 3 hours. Cant spend my life doing this. But can certainly be disciplined with a few minutes here and there.
As I type this, I'm up at 1:06am. This has to stop. Solomon - "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge." Help me Father. Your wisdom Father. HE, Christ, the Son, He is wisdom, and redemption, and sanctification. "Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense." "Greater is he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city." Wisdom cries aloud in the streets. Wake me up, let me hear this voice. Noone qualifies for simple more than me. Mortar and pestal. To be a man of God. Jesus Christ, my curse of the law, for Your glory and my saving. Oh God I want to please You. Christ. It is CHRIST! The serpent, cursed, elevated, SAVING, exalted as Lord, the Son of God. You became the very worst, Jesus, because You ALONE are good, and You along could love me. You became my wasting of time. You became my lack of desire for You. God I pray this is doctrine of God. You became my judging others. You became my sluggishness. You became my pride. You became my anxiety. You BECAME my lack of trust. My lack of faith. Oh GOD You CRIED OUT to GOD, "WHY??? WHY have You FORSAKEN Me???" You became my ignorance. God You have HATED these, and THAT is why my SAVIOR BECAME them. Jesus my heart cannot give You what You demand, I am completely unable. GOD this is where You want me. Oh God my self-righteousness.
My Redeemer lives. He is eternally able to save me because He lives always to make intercession for me. I am averted to being loved. To things working out. To joy. Jesus please teach me. God my heart. I can feel it physically, clenched. Jesus change me. To be real. To believe in Hell. To have joy. To live with stability. To love. To love. To delight in Christ. My eyes grow tired. You've taught me Lord that I will go thru trials for time if necessary, that the genuinness of my faith, more precious than gold, though refined by fire, may result in the praise of the glory of God. Obedience at this moment is going to sleep. Resting is trusting God. My heart is too dark. Light of the world, shine in my heart. Sun. God know my heart, make me like You. To be changed by glory that is veiled in light.
Tried starting a blog last year around this time, and was excited to post one posting:). I recently viewed a friend's blog and was totally encouraged to do this. I dont really look at blogs, in fact I feel kind of weird saying and typing the word "blog". Blog Blog Blog. See that doesn't help really.
Truth. I need it. My life needs it. In Person form. The Way the Truth and the Life. I need Him to change me. I need to focus. I need to redeem the time. I pray this can help me, and I pray this can help anyone else who would read it. I need to set parameters for how much I write or I'll look at the clock and realize it's been 3 hours. Cant spend my life doing this. But can certainly be disciplined with a few minutes here and there.
As I type this, I'm up at 1:06am. This has to stop. Solomon - "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge." Help me Father. Your wisdom Father. HE, Christ, the Son, He is wisdom, and redemption, and sanctification. "Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense." "Greater is he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city." Wisdom cries aloud in the streets. Wake me up, let me hear this voice. Noone qualifies for simple more than me. Mortar and pestal. To be a man of God. Jesus Christ, my curse of the law, for Your glory and my saving. Oh God I want to please You. Christ. It is CHRIST! The serpent, cursed, elevated, SAVING, exalted as Lord, the Son of God. You became the very worst, Jesus, because You ALONE are good, and You along could love me. You became my wasting of time. You became my lack of desire for You. God I pray this is doctrine of God. You became my judging others. You became my sluggishness. You became my pride. You became my anxiety. You BECAME my lack of trust. My lack of faith. Oh GOD You CRIED OUT to GOD, "WHY??? WHY have You FORSAKEN Me???" You became my ignorance. God You have HATED these, and THAT is why my SAVIOR BECAME them. Jesus my heart cannot give You what You demand, I am completely unable. GOD this is where You want me. Oh God my self-righteousness.
My Redeemer lives. He is eternally able to save me because He lives always to make intercession for me. I am averted to being loved. To things working out. To joy. Jesus please teach me. God my heart. I can feel it physically, clenched. Jesus change me. To be real. To believe in Hell. To have joy. To live with stability. To love. To love. To delight in Christ. My eyes grow tired. You've taught me Lord that I will go thru trials for time if necessary, that the genuinness of my faith, more precious than gold, though refined by fire, may result in the praise of the glory of God. Obedience at this moment is going to sleep. Resting is trusting God. My heart is too dark. Light of the world, shine in my heart. Sun. God know my heart, make me like You. To be changed by glory that is veiled in light.
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