people and time

give people time and they will tell you everything.

Perfect moments

Don’t hurredly rush after your end goal without determining in your heart to revel in the anticipation that gets you there. Anticipation is not necessary, things will happen whether you anticipate or not. But why leave the amazing gift of anticipation from our Father in Heaven, instead of getting the most out of it and appreciating the small, vulnerable, perfect moments ?

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Relax and take it all in. God wants us to suck meaning out of the seconds and minutes! Yet be prepared to live at his level and not your own.

At the gate

If you want to start something you have approach the starting line. God help us for the people who in their “maturity” don’t need to begin at the beginning! Think of one who enters movie after the protagonist has already entered the rising action and is nearing the climax. The climax is then experienced as one who would experience life out of focus. It’s the exposition that brings the striking clarity and meaning. We must begin at the beginning! Why don’t we want the exposition, the rising action . The small, true beginning. The intense struggle before the victory. The people who become involved along the way. We want the victory but then have no idea why it matters or where to go next. Certainly not to a beginning. God wake us from lying to ourselves and humbly walk with you beginning to end.

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on edge?

If only we could experience enough of life it would leave us unsettled. Then we would no longer look to something to take us to the “edge”, we would already be there.

If we are familiar with life, we somehow have managed to sleep through all of the good parts, like the man who watches braveheart and walks away not getting it. “Why did William Wallace die?,” they would say.

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Pioneering

“In order to move forward we must rediscover our pioneer spirit, our first love, our creativeness. So that those who were never told of Him will see Him. Those who have never seen Him will get THE MESSAGE.” – Chilly Chilton version of 1 Corinthians 15:19-21

I think about this often I will never forget the first time I heard it.. Today it hits the blog again. Grab a cliché and refuse to let it do what it always does and breed contempt. So “Stop at Nothing.” The opportunity to rediscover can lead to someone’s radical salvation today!

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Captain, thank you for your vision and leadership, pioneers keep pioneering!

Job 12

“True wisdom and real power belong to God;
from him we learn how to live,
and also what to live for.
If he tears something down, it’s down for good;
if he locks people up, they’re locked up for good.
If he holds back the rain, there’s a drought;
if he lets it loose, there’s a flood.
Strength and success belong to God;
both deceived and deceiver must answer to him.

Father in Heaven, that my heart wouldn’t waver in this pursuit overtaking my heart. I feel so far from true wisdom and real power, and yet remember how far you have brought me. I desire nothing but to become a real servant of God fitted with His true wisdom. I pray for your sovereign rule to joyfully fill my heart this morning, as each morning. That I would revel in the acting hand of God and not merely the outcome and how it affects me. That you would find my faced fixed toward you. You are working. I will yet bring honor to your name.

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At the very least

We could at least be truthful before God and admit our weakness instead of reducing the requirement. -S.K.

I found myself in the Gospels (Vangeli) and pondering belief. Christ, upon being asked what men should do, (John 6) answered, believe in He who was sent. That is the requirement, believe in Jesus. Yet, many will habitually and continually make up stories about their weak belief being strong, instead of praying about their unbelief. I am admitting mine this week. God help me overcome my unbelief. “His power is very great for those of us who believe.”

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