Saturday, May 31, 2008
Come just as you are.
The wonderful wonderful truth that I need only come just as I am to receive living water is almost more than I can receive ! That is why , (I suppose) that I don't drink of this living water more often. Being able to receive that He is willing to give me a living water is like, being able to receive that He has taken the punishment for my sins , plus . Didn't He say He came to give us life, and life more abundantly ?
There's a plus there ! More than life. Life abundantly !
There is an abundant life that He wants me to live. I plan to live my life in a way that is ready to receive it !
There's a plus there ! More than life. Life abundantly !
There is an abundant life that He wants me to live. I plan to live my life in a way that is ready to receive it !
Friday, May 30, 2008
No Dry Broken Cistern For Me
One of the hardest parts of being a laborer in the field is knowing when to rest . The fields are ripe unto harvest does not necessarily mean work until you drop . Actually as a harvester my hope is to be watching the Shepherd ever so closely. That way when we go by the still waters and when we lie down in the green pastures , I'll be watching.
It was not a bad thing to have cisterns in the day that this exhortation was given . Even allegorically as the LORD infers . It was just wrong to let them go dry and break .
Perhaps kind of like the 5 foolish virgins who used up their oil and wanted to buy some from the wise virgins who were waiting for the bridegroom .
Balance , balance , balance is so vital to me . I have fallen down so many times . I've learned you better have truth along with the spirit or you are going to find yourself in a ditch. Reason being the blind you are following will end up there to.
That is why I am so blessed to have a church that exhorts us to read the text for ourselves . Seek the LORD for ourselves and hear from the Holy Spirit ourselves.
"Do not just take my word for it", our pastor says and how grateful am I to have found green pastures . Not just green pastures , because we all have that available to us in God's Word . but encouragement from our pastor to really take your time to eat and digest this spiritual food for yourself.
It was not a bad thing to have cisterns in the day that this exhortation was given . Even allegorically as the LORD infers . It was just wrong to let them go dry and break .
Perhaps kind of like the 5 foolish virgins who used up their oil and wanted to buy some from the wise virgins who were waiting for the bridegroom .
Balance , balance , balance is so vital to me . I have fallen down so many times . I've learned you better have truth along with the spirit or you are going to find yourself in a ditch. Reason being the blind you are following will end up there to.
That is why I am so blessed to have a church that exhorts us to read the text for ourselves . Seek the LORD for ourselves and hear from the Holy Spirit ourselves.
"Do not just take my word for it", our pastor says and how grateful am I to have found green pastures . Not just green pastures , because we all have that available to us in God's Word . but encouragement from our pastor to really take your time to eat and digest this spiritual food for yourself.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A Broken Cistern or A Fountain of Living Water ?
Water is something that I physically need. I also need a spiritual water that only the Holy Spirit can give me. A cultivated desire for truth along with an openness to receive the Spirit have been my greatest gifts .
Before me the day desires a word of testimony.
May our joy be increased as you and I learn how to not forsake the fountain of living waters and how to not have broken cisterns but cisterns that can indeed hold water.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
May my words of testimony stir up a desire to speak your own words of testimony also.
Before me the day desires a word of testimony.
May our joy be increased as you and I learn how to not forsake the fountain of living waters and how to not have broken cisterns but cisterns that can indeed hold water.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
May my words of testimony stir up a desire to speak your own words of testimony also.
