2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19&20; Psalm 20; Matthew 22

I don’t why I continue to battle with You and maybe it’s not so much battling/wrestling anymore as just old stubbornly holding on to what I want, refusing to ……..because more and more I see the ‘joy of the Lord is my strength’ …that in the suffering I impose on myself by refusing to go Your way, that even in that there is such flippin JOY.
I can’t explain it ...
I do a lousy job of living it... but it’s there just the same.
This vein of Holy Discontent, this absolute certainty that there is an Amazing Sovereign God who loves us so much, this certainty about who Jesus is and who the Holy Spirit is, this muddy certainty that drives me deeper and deeper into seeking Him and His will. I don’t know much but what I do know in my heart drives me to a relationship with someone I can’t see, touch or hear……

Matthew 22: 37-40 (msg)Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."

Matthew 22: 37-40 36 (niv)"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Bringing me back to …. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."
So that’s what I’m gonna do, struggle to do and I’m gonna continue to encourage those around me to wrestle with what that may mean to and for them as well……cuz, wouldn’t we all like to learn the unforced rhythms of grace…….I pray a day of being present and aware, listening and immediately following where You lead.