Genesis 15-17; Luke 6

AT Panera this morning dreaming, wondering how to encourage people to give, realizing it took me so long to understand how vital giving is to my own journey? It was like a bore hole in my brain, a seed planted...a bug, a worm growing...... and then my heart got engaged...and then after years of 'push back'......what it's given to my journey is immeasureable......Praying to be kind and passionate without being pushy and judgmental, praying to trust You with the outcome. Do I TRUST You or Use You...how can I invite trusting? How do I move into things, invitations I would much rather....rather what?? Why is a simple invite so hard? Because it wouldn't /won't be a simple invite I will have expectations and then those expectations will turn into disappointment and then I will ......USE You to...to....To circumvent all this and simply without expectation TRUST You with the invite......sounds so easy and yet......or there it is a BUT when all I want to do is live without BUTS TRUSTING You......

In Gen. 15 God took Abram outside and shows him the stars and then in 17 Abram falls facedown....the familiarity and the worship...BOTH not one or the other BOTH.....what an Amazing God.

Then you could just spend days in Luke 6......Dan's and my empty house again.....the temperatures are so cold and we have empty rooms. So do we go and pick up homeless people? Why not? How? And the money we want to send to South Africa would it be better spent here?? If I struggle within these questions why would I think others don't ....Luke 6: 37 "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
39 He also told them this parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
41"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

An invite, a prayerful trusting invite.....and asking You Abba who needs a place to live, we got one...