Thursday, May 28, 2009

Proverbs 7 - 9; Romans 9

Watching this..................
stepping back into leadership.....via coaching Small Group Leaders...
passion for You growing and scaring me....
reading Romans......what a book, confusing and convicting and taking me deeper and deeper into seeking You when I reall take the time to sink.....allow myself to be broken by what I read.....
Doing Soul Care by Larry Crabb hearing him wax poetic about God's plan for relationships....
Reading this paragraph Soul Care 201;Lesson 3; page 2 wrecks me:

Remember in the Gospels when we read that after thirty years of our Lord living on earth, living a perfect life, relating perfectly to His Father, relating perfectly to His mother and dad, relating perfectly to His siblings in every way, relating absolutely perfectly that the Father could no longer stand Himself and He parted the clouds and when the Son was coming out of the baptismal water, saying, "Father I am here to enable people to relate the way You and I related; I'm here to take care of the fact that people's patterns of relating are corrupt, and they've messed up all the joy that We enjoy and We intend for them; I'm here to restore that to all of them, Father, all those who believe in Me." And as He comes out of the waters of baptism, saying that and declaring Himself ready to do His Father's will, reveal the Father's glory, the Father rips back the heavens and says, "I am crazy about You. I love You. When I look at You, I feel a joy that's beyond description. 'Why, Father and Son knew how to relate. Joy depends on relating in a particular way that the Trinity models for us perfectly.

Ok Ok this is Larry's take on it....I love it....I love that perhaps there is HOPE for me in relationships.....I love that His purpose will be fulfilled in me, in you, in all of us when I/we submit to His chisel, His surgery, His softening MY HEART.....I love that our deepest longings for significance and security are needs that God actually intended to meet through a community of believers...Crabb too...I love that the local church is the HOPE of the World....Bill Hybels
I love it and am totally and completely inadequate and incapable of doing anything to help and yet...and yet He calls me to Himself and in that calling ...who knows?

How about you, where do you sense Him pulling you these days??
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Me said...

Today, this video brings me to tears. The clang of the chisel makes me jump. I am not brave that brave. My friend's cancer has spread to her lungs and liver. Another coworker died this week. The joy seems to be squeezed out. All this negative stuff clouds how I see things. Brings me back to the only prayer I have during these moments, "Father..." There is no where else to go, nothing else to say. I want my Daddy.

May 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM

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