Random Bloughts (blog thoughts)..

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.