viernes, 25 febrero, 2011
Einstein wrote that, “Truth is what stands the test of experience.” And as I grow older… [huh, bunny trail on the word “grow”] experience after experience only affirms that the Truth is the Truth.
Winston Churchill wrote, “I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
oh, the joys of a child.
these fuzzy days, i feel absolutely absent.
oh the joy of seeing my sisa <3
martes, 22 febrero, 2011
it’s 9:53A already, but I’ma act like there’s no such thing as time today; Now’s when I’m starting. Get some feel good, blood pumping, neuron-stimulating, endorphin releasing activity in and we’ll take it from there. This body needs to be handled as it needs to be handled. This body requires regularly consistent and periodically constant exercising of its abilities. Required of me, myself, is diligence in good stewardship; in this time of season, good stewardship consists of taking care of that which you have gifted me with- a functional body- but in order to keep it functioning at its best, I must feed it and exercise it as it requires. Therefore, in order to be more like You, continuing in good stewardship, I will exercise my body gladly, knowing that in the choice to act, I am yielding to Your Spirit and power and am walking in Your light.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from ME, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” [Matthew 11:28-30 NASB]
Jesus, You are the power that makes Matt 11:28-30 available. You, Your perfect obedience, Your descending Your Holy Perfect self to be inhumanely humiliated before the very people You were being flogged for..
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. [Romans 8:9-11 NASB]
If this is the Spirit I have attained with righteousness, what am I doing?!
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to he one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient form the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
--I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. ---But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
[Romans 8:16-18, 19-22 NASB]
this Spirit;; how He helps!
for in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts know what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
[Romans 8:24-25,26-27 NASB]
this Spirit, that raised Christ from the dead and dwells in me, how powerful He is!
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
[Ephesians 3:20-21 NASB]
His divine intimacy..
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with the confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
[Hebrews 4:12-16 NASB]
Savior, You Mighty One are the One that I wish to know intimately- entwine Yourself into my fibers, make me to know Your joy and gladness, renew me with a steadfast heart, Your right hand upholdeth me.
Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “AS I SWORE ON MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “AND GOD RESTED ONT HE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS”; and again in the passage, “THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.” Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly had good new preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience, He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.” For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.
So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.
[Hebrews 4:1-11 NASB]
………..which leads then to;
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with the confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
[Hebrews 4:12-16 NASB]
be diligent to enter that rest; don’t leave room for yourself to default- be diligent, make the deliberate decision and steps to fill your heart, soul, mind, and strength with His Spirit… His words, or anything that is,
…true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, of good repute, of excellence and worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
[Philippians 4:8 NASB]
what’s included in rest?; verses 12-16—abiding in His word, His living and active word, resting, quieting yourself to recognize Him for Him and lay bare your heart before Him, rest in knowing that He knows what’s in there and has been tempted with the same. Rest in knowing that He not only understands and feels your pain with you, but already has prepared mercy and grace to lavish on you. He not only has compassion, mercy and grace to give, but has given you all the compassion, mercy and grace you will ever need for all eternity. He, being through the fire you now endure, without sin, chose to descend Himself to the lowest position of humanity that you may now have His mercy and grace in your time of need. And not only that, but that you may now draw near—with confidence!—to the throne of grace, the throne. You may draw near to the throne, for that is where you may receive His free gifts of help. Breathe. Breathe.
Off to rest--
lunes, 21 febrero, 2011
10A
Each day I’ve been filling up with a piece of Ecclesiastes & a Breaking Free verse or whatever New Testament book/verse I want to have in my mind that day. Today was in Ecclesiastes 8; and I have to be honest here, Ecclesiastes in NASB has been a bit difficult- his words seems so oddly arranged at times that they hardly make sense- which, of course, makes it easy to casually skip over those words/sentences/verses/sections. All too often I hear my thoughts stating that “‘this’(verse/section) doesn’t apply to me right now,”… that can be challenging to tackle. So whenever I hear my thoughts showing that type of mindset, I try to make sure I spend good time in those words, make sure those thoughts are taken captive to Christ.. These words really make me think, about why we do what we do, what it’s all really worth. And it's making me question why I do what I do, what my motives are and what I really care about—not just what I want to care about or wish I cared about—but truly, what is at the bottom of my joy today? That question keeps lingering in my mind, it’s been there quite some time. Few months; yet the answer I have yet to be certain of. I know what I desire it to be, what would be best.. yet I won’t let that lead me on, for my goal is not to achieve any particular status or state of heart or mind, for that would be of my own achievements. The heart that I seek already exists, it needs not to be created but revealed. Accessed. Yielded to. This heart is hidden, hidden with Him whom I seek to know more than anything in my life, Him whom I yearn to love more than anything in my life.
Spending time in His words has had the biggest impact on my mind, going from ‘I have to do x,y,z today but I didn’t finish a,b,c yesterday so I’m going to fail. Yay me,” to, ‘forget tasks, today You’re here, the Lord is near, let’s do this-I gotta know You, they gotta know You'.’
[16] When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night), [17] and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say,”I know,” he cannot discover. (Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 NASB)
[16] When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep, [17] then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
(Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 ESV)
[16-17] When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking, you’ll still never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you’re not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart your are, you won’t get to the bottom of it. (Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 The Message)
Quite the difference there is between the NASB version and the Message version… either way, conviction for me—I like to know what’s going on, what things mean and all else there is to understand. That’s hard for me,,
Another conviction today; seeking my own.
1P
I’ve had quite the difficulty with discipline, getting down to it and focusing… haven’t gotten any homework accomplished yet; now’s the moment where I start.
8:37P
It feels so difficult, like i’m pushing against the rest of my being. homework, it’s just homework. why is it so hard to make myself focus?
10Feb2011
This morning, as many others, so much to do…
help me order my life, my days, my time- in a way that breathes and speaks Your Truth
Everywhere I go I know You’re not far away, You’re right here… You’re right here.
Oh, how many nights, how many times You held me through with those simply powerful words…
Praise You, thank You Lord, You alone, You changed my mind to focus and You empowered me to accomplished an assignment quite large in my eyes… one precalc assignment… one more victory revealed! Hallelujah! You have lavished Your great love and mighty grace on me!
POWER::
[Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience]
[50:1] Thus says the LORD:
“Where is your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which I sent her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
[2] Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.
[3] I clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.”
[4] The Lord GOD has given me
the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
he awakens my ear
to hear as those who are taught.
[5] The Lord GOD has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I turned not backward.
[6] I gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.
[7] But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
[8] He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
[9] Behold, the Lord GOD helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.
[10] Who among you fears the LORD
and obeys the voice of his servant?
Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the LORD
and rely on his God.
[11] Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
and by the torches that you have kindled!
This you have from my hand:
you shall lie down in torment.
(Isaiah 50 ESV)
2/7/2011
Thank you Polly for more than morning yoga! off for a try of the protein shake!
Anyone who meets a testing challenge head on and manages to STICK IT OUT is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life. James 1:12
Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. 1 Peter 3:16
I don't want to be bothered by any more of these disputes. I have far more important things to do - the serious living of this faith. Galatians 6:17
>>I know how to encourage people. He wakes me up in the morning, and opens my ears to listen. Isaiah 50:4<<
O taste and see that the Lord is GOOD. Psalm 34:8
2.2.2011
It can be often heard that things aren’t as great if there’s no one to share it with.. and quite honestly I’d say I feel the same. Even odder, I often feel that I don’t have anyone to share it with, how dare I, Love, please forgive me! I’ll always have someone to share each journey with ‘cause I’ll always have You! I’ll have You to thank for the sunrises and the colors of the sky. I’ll have You to hold tight as I attempt to breathe in a sweet breeze, a melody of creatures, even a family bursting with love. I have You to rest with, to wake up to, I have You to wake up to, You to release my worries to, You to praise for Your character, You to admire, You to ponder on, Your personality to be deeply infatuated with, You to be captivated by, You to have my heart locked away with. You, to be all my hopes and dreams. You to be everything I need. You to be everything I want. I have You. Thank You for having me… thank You for making me all Yours.
2.1.2011
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do :: Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do
random note::[…v22.He breathed on them, & said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” He offered, but commanded them to receive Him…]
[29] Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
(John 20:29 ESV)
>I don’t know why this seemed to prod at me, but it did. It’s conviction… Timothy said that he would not believe that the disciples had seen Christ until he saw and felt Him with his own hands…
>>did Christ [not to mention generations of prophets] not teach & tell again and again about His suffering, death and resurrection?
The fullness of Your grace is here with me
The richness of Your beauty’s all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied
For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love
A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it’s filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
In Your presence God I’m completely satisfied
1/16/2011
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Rejoice always;
Pray without ceasing;
in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Oh Lord, how You open our eyes! There’s no telling, no guess who, what, where, when, how.. yet You open our eyes, until we can see.
The way You had AA write of food, and how she found it gluttony in her life not because she overate or was overweight or a slave to it, but rather because she would choose to eat in order to satisfy herself. I’d never thought of it that way before – I’ve really never thought about gluttony or its place in my life at all to be honest.
Today;; You opened my eyes not only to the above, but to a happening that could rather be seen as opportunity, a gift given to give back. It’s arranged that I am taking a friend out to dinner today. Now, this friend is lovely, open, adventurous, a person I love to be around for my heart feels spoken sweetly to. Anywho, I'm picking up a friend to go out to dinner then a girl's basketball game... and i was just thinking about it, where we'll eat, what it'll be like & suddenly the picture changed & it came to my mind, why would i do anything, why would i ever go anywhere without the intention of sharing His Name and great goodness??! seriously, what is the point of doing anything at all if it's not springing out of the desire for our Lord, Christ Jesus to be more rightly known and glorified??! that changes perspective... & the thought of my date [w/ a girl friend] tonight changed from 'woo fun finally get to spend some time and get to know this girl' to 'yesss, finally get to know this girl, hopefully from the inside out, her heart, maybe i'll get to share Jesus with her, i hope she know Him' --it went from being an event to being an opportunity...
..just thought i'd share. (:
Yesterday was a day of revelation, relaxation, and smack-ya-up-side-the-head revival.. being a prisoner of my mind is not exactly the “life” I would categorize as “worthy of the Gospel of Christ Jesus.”
…and then, come night fall. Now, I have nothing against night, no special belief about night—all i know is that when it gets late and I’m tired, I don’t make any logical sense. My mind goes static and I wander aimlessly for, sometimes, hours. So, all that goes to say, I just (not purposefully or excitedly) pulled an all-nighter, almost without realizing it. Although now I have to be cautious about the effects that i know are to come, because they will come.
I will no longer be a machine, computer, anxiety, processor… I will live.
