I'd like to see answers to the question, "What is your least favorite verse?"
Everyone always asks what your favorite verse is, and while that's fun, I think it's more honest to answer the opposite.
Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
standing at a crossroads
I always want to write whenever I'm feeling confused or at a loss for explanation of a situation, so I have to admit that the writing is not fluent or meant to entertain as much as it is cathartic and sorta like mapping out issues for me. Maybe I should become a painter, then I could paint my quandaries and confusions and I would have a great visual that would mark my decision making process. So that's a warning that this possibly will not make any sense at all.
Anywho, here I am standing at a crossroad. It's interesting when you stand at a crossroad that you can look back and see where you chose to go left and not right or to veer here and go up a hill over there. All those journeys are the ones that brought you to this new split. So the time and space have an ordained feeling to them as you can see the hand that led you to this point.
It's a fact, you cannot go both ways, at least if I were standing at a real physical road I would be unable to go both ways. If I took one way and then decided to back track and go the other route, it would not be the same as taking it in the first place. But I wonder sometimes if we can't rise above physical limitations. After all, my spirit man has been made alive, so how much do physical laws really rule over me. Does the freedom that we have in Christ transcend not only our slavery to sin, but also the bounds of physics? Remember, Peter walked on water. I know the laws of this natural world do not allow such defiance. There are always those people who make us step back and say, "Wow! how do they do all that." In my own life I can think of a few people like that. Maybe the explanation is that they are doing what they do in a supernatural way. Christ followers frequently ask for the strength of the Lord, or that he will multiply our time or other things that sound really great in a prayer, but when it comes down to it do I really expect my muscles to grow, or my clock to have more numbers than 12? In truth I am asking for myself to be more self disciplined and use my time more wisely so that I can get everything done that I see as part of God's calling for me. While those are good things to ask for and I'm sure God honors those prayers, I think I need to be more like Peter and say Lord if that is you tell me to walk to you on the water and I will.
I have the same life in me that was in Christ Jesus. He defied the laws of this earth time after time. There was great demand on His time during His earthly ministry. When Jesus needed to be somewhere, like in the middle of the lake he said phooey with the earth bound laws and he went for a stroll on H2O. There are so many times in the Bible when the earthly laws that physics has said are true are completely ignored. Didn't Elijah run faster than a man in a chariot? I know that what seems to be impossible to man is not impossible with God. Remember Virgin birth? So while it seems that two callings collide and that it must be one or the other, I know that God is bigger than that. So Lord if it is you, tell me to come and I will! So I'll just keep moving forward and trusting that God is so much bigger than my finite ways of thinking. I will put on the mind of Christ and humble myself to say I can't but HE can!
Anywho, here I am standing at a crossroad. It's interesting when you stand at a crossroad that you can look back and see where you chose to go left and not right or to veer here and go up a hill over there. All those journeys are the ones that brought you to this new split. So the time and space have an ordained feeling to them as you can see the hand that led you to this point.
It's a fact, you cannot go both ways, at least if I were standing at a real physical road I would be unable to go both ways. If I took one way and then decided to back track and go the other route, it would not be the same as taking it in the first place. But I wonder sometimes if we can't rise above physical limitations. After all, my spirit man has been made alive, so how much do physical laws really rule over me. Does the freedom that we have in Christ transcend not only our slavery to sin, but also the bounds of physics? Remember, Peter walked on water. I know the laws of this natural world do not allow such defiance. There are always those people who make us step back and say, "Wow! how do they do all that." In my own life I can think of a few people like that. Maybe the explanation is that they are doing what they do in a supernatural way. Christ followers frequently ask for the strength of the Lord, or that he will multiply our time or other things that sound really great in a prayer, but when it comes down to it do I really expect my muscles to grow, or my clock to have more numbers than 12? In truth I am asking for myself to be more self disciplined and use my time more wisely so that I can get everything done that I see as part of God's calling for me. While those are good things to ask for and I'm sure God honors those prayers, I think I need to be more like Peter and say Lord if that is you tell me to walk to you on the water and I will.
I have the same life in me that was in Christ Jesus. He defied the laws of this earth time after time. There was great demand on His time during His earthly ministry. When Jesus needed to be somewhere, like in the middle of the lake he said phooey with the earth bound laws and he went for a stroll on H2O. There are so many times in the Bible when the earthly laws that physics has said are true are completely ignored. Didn't Elijah run faster than a man in a chariot? I know that what seems to be impossible to man is not impossible with God. Remember Virgin birth? So while it seems that two callings collide and that it must be one or the other, I know that God is bigger than that. So Lord if it is you, tell me to come and I will! So I'll just keep moving forward and trusting that God is so much bigger than my finite ways of thinking. I will put on the mind of Christ and humble myself to say I can't but HE can!
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