Someone… and I want to attribute it to Larry Crabb said ‘ every person is like the Grand Canyon’….or something like that….and I ‘got that’…..and now having actually seen the Grand Canyon, it’s even more of a revelation…that people are deep and broken and mysterious w/unfathomable wounds having created those crags and holes…..Jeremiah says that 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?...even this…these precious children, my very own grandchildren suffer the same malady…….
and me, hell yes I do/am…and this latest verse……..the ‘oracle’…how for freakin years I have listened to me…..
Jeremiah 23:36 (NIV) But you must not mention 'the oracle of the LORD ' again, because every man's own word becomes his oracle and so you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
Jeremiah 23:36 (The Message) 35-36"Instead of claiming to know what God says, ask questions of one another, such as 'How do we understand God in this?' But don't go around pretending to know it all, saying 'God told me this...God told me that....' I don't want to hear it anymore. Only the person I authorize speaks for me. Otherwise, my Message gets twisted, the Message of the living God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
And now….now I am just so freakin confused…sure and surely confused…..or just…
1 John 2: Loving the World
12-13 I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus' name. You veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One.
13-14 And a second reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience. You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.
15-17 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
Jeremiah 23:36 (NIV) But you must not mention 'the oracle of the LORD ' again, because every man's own word becomes his oracle and so you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
Jeremiah 23:36 (The Message) 35-36"Instead of claiming to know what God says, ask questions of one another, such as 'How do we understand God in this?' But don't go around pretending to know it all, saying 'God told me this...God told me that....' I don't want to hear it anymore. Only the person I authorize speaks for me. Otherwise, my Message gets twisted, the Message of the living God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
And now….now I am just so freakin confused…sure and surely confused…..or just…
1 John 2: Loving the World
12-13 I remind you, my dear children: Your sins are forgiven in Jesus' name. You veterans were in on the ground floor, and know the One who started all this; you newcomers have won a big victory over the Evil One.
13-14 And a second reminder, dear children: You know the Father from personal experience. You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One.
15-17 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
btw...are they not the cutest??..and the oldest started Kindergarten this year.....so to love them as YOU say to.....love them and Thank YOU for them....
2 comments:
Cute pictures of the kids. Brian and I missed you last night. We were looking for you.
very cute kids love your sharing in your last few posts, your focus on Scripture, your desire to know Him so intimnately, your willingness to risk so you can have that,your being an encouraging challenging friend and sister in Him keep shining becky!!!
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