I’ve always wondered about the sequencing of this verse: ask, seek, and knock. Each of these actions has a promise of success. Yes, but first there must be intent and choice, a decision to do something different. Matthew 7:7 Ask and it [the good gifts] will be given to you; seek and you will find; [...]
Posts Tagged ‘love’
The Good Gifts
Posted in Lent, tagged ask, Christ, faith, good gifts, knock, love, Mathew, obstacles, promise, seek, seeking on March 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Help Me See
Posted in Lent, tagged authenticity, blameless, choice, God, holiness, humility, love, Love others, prayer, Psalms, seeking, transparency, wholeness on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I’m not paying enough attention. I know there are upright people around me; there are folks who are choosing each day to turn away from the selfish choice and seek peace. Have I become so jaded that I only see the mistakes, the falling short of a person? Psalm 37:37 Consider the blameless, observe the [...]
Loving Delusions
Posted in Lent, tagged authenticity, delusions, denial, faith, false gods, God, Holy Spirit, idols, Jesus Christ, love, open my eyes, Psalms, truth on March 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
How long? Maybe forever without intervention. Am I living within a mirage? Am I seeing what I want to see instead of what is there? Am I in the simulated reality of some matrix that I cannot readily perceive? Have I allowed myself to believe in a lie? A delusion? How would I know? Psalm [...]
Coming Home
Posted in Lent, tagged comfort, exile, Ezra, familiarity, family, God, Holy Spirit, home, Israelites, Lent, love, Passover, prayer, ritual, second temple on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
After 70 years, when Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem and the Second Temple reconstruction was completed and dedicated by the shedding of much animal blood, they celebrated the Passover, eager to seek God through their age-old rituals and traditions. They were home. Ezra 6:21 So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it [...]
Because I Said So
Posted in Lent, tagged God, grudges, I am, Lent, Leviticus, love, neighbor, revenge, sacred other, sovereignty on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Clearly, if we must be told, as a people, to “not” hold grudges or seek revenge, it must be a norm or tendency. My kids call it “paybacks.” Instead, we are to love our neighbor and why? Because the Lord God says so. Leviticus 19:18 ‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone [...]
Seal of God
Posted in Ordinary Time, tagged abyss, child of God, Christ, faith, John, love, mark of the beast, revelation, seal, seal of God, seal of ownership, tribulation, trust on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The locust attack from the Abyss comes after the sounding of the 5th trumpet. The first four are equally devastating, from “hail & fire mixed with blood” to a huge blazing meteoric object as big as a mountain to comet-like star (or person?) that turns water to Wormword and a consuming darkness to follow. Not [...]
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