Temporary for Eternal

God help us to trust you

God help us to set ourselves aside

God destroy the lies and help us see the truth

God help us to know what you want us to do and forget all else

God take care of our every need

God you are the truth

God you are the beginning and the end

God trade our temporary for the eternal

God's Grace

I think one of the greatest misunderstood thing about Jesus is the idea of Grace. I think even with me and other Christians.

Grace: (in Christian belief) the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.

I think it is most misunderstood because I think for God it is an all or nothing. Anyone who accepts God's grace through Jesus will receive it. I think as Christians we gloss over that statement and don't take it in. I believe this is a major part in the revolution of Jesus. No matter how small or large God will extend grace to those who accept it. This is hard to accept for ourselves and it is hard for us to apply this to others.

We are stuck in a payment monetary system. Small items require only small payment and big items require big payment. Another way to look at it is progress punishment. Small rule breaking requires small punishment. Large rule breaking requires large punishment. Grace doesn't work like that. Any rule breaking requires payment but you can not pay you have to accept Jesus's payment as a free gift. Others can accept is as a free gift just as well as us. Because of this we are all the same. God sees there is no other way. You can not have a small punishment for a small rule breaking. God knows that will not work.

God help us to live for you
God help us to accept your free gift of Grace
God help us to listen to you
God help us to trust you

Musing from a Pandemic

Transitions are hard. They are fraught with conflict, divisions, break downs, and extra work. Is this what constructive destruction is like? There will be no going back. Things will be broken that can’t be fixed and things will be created that can’t be unmade. If you ignore the change you will be left behind.

Everything that is know for certain is in question. Things that you would think would never happen will. Things that you think will happen will not. It is the challenge in conquering the beast.

I could give examples but they are fraught with interpretation error and are not likely to happen again. What wisdom could I bestow? Fight the fight push through God is there in the future as well as the past we just don’t know the future yet. Remember you are not God. Keep your prospective in check.

How do we deal with it? One step at a time, one conversation at a time, one project at a time.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.

Loved by God

 God help us to understand that we are loved by you and that is the most important thing to take value from

God help us to realize that everything else fades away

God help us to seek out your plan for our lives

God help us to trust you and seek you in every part of our lives

God help us to hear your voice in our lives

Solid Rock

God help us to realize you are the only solid rock

God help us to realize all else is shifting sand

God help us to realize discerning your will for us is our life goal

God help us to gain value in your love for us and forget everything else

God help us to trust you

God help us to listen to you

Fill our lives with your presence

Free Speech

 

Websites including the large companies like to portray themselves as non partisan platforms but in reality they are a corporations with distinct goals and objectives more like a newspaper. As such they will most likely follow popular opinion to maximize profit and readership (not unlike newspapers). They are not a public forum owned by the public like a university. I believe just like newspapers, websites, and churches due to free speak laws should be able to decide what is published and what is not. I think forcing websites to keep publishing "Authors" would have larger implications. I think a website or newspaper should always have the right to decided who is allowed to "publish" and who is not allowed to "publish". If a website is forced to "publish" an "author" I think this would be a greater damage to free speak. Any website (church, organization .. etc.) is then under risk of having to publish views that it disagrees with. True to free speech if anyone is "cancelled" as an "Author" they always have the right to open their own website to "publish" their content. 

 

On the other hand we have to be very mindfully of what control large websites have and how they can control messaging similar to newspapers/radio/TV previously. You might say but large companies control which websites can be found. True but but if I look back in history before the internet there was more message control as then only the people with resources could start their own newspaper, flyer, radio to state their opinion. Now a website can be opened with very little money and there is many other search engines other the the normal ones. I would argue that it is much easier to get you view heard and seen than at any other time in history.

 

Let's use our opportunities wisely.

 

God help us to gain your wisdom

God help us to see through the fog

God help us to trust in you

God help us to be still and hear your voice

God Master of All

God help us to realize how small we are

God help us to see how small money is

God help us to realize our only value is your love for us.

God help us to realize everything here is temporary

God help us to search and find the permanent

God speak your truth to us

God speak your words to us

God speak your love to us.

Forgetting Self

God help us to forget ourselve

God help us to realize how little we understand

God bring us to your cup

God burn in us your eternal flame

God help us to give up anything temporal and trade for the eternal

God's Love

God help us to understand your love

God help us to bring us into a point where we can understand your mysteries

God help us to trust you

God help us to follow you

Surpassing Worth

 

Philippians 3:8 (NIV) "What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them Garbage, that I may gain Christ"

God help us to focus on knowing Christ Jesus
God help us forget all our earthly goals and focus on you
God help us to know what you have called us to do
God help us to forget all that you have not called us to do
God help us to focus on the truly import things and never doubt what you told us

Providence

 

"And if we believe that God is everywhere, why should we not think Him Present even in the coincidences that sometimes seem so strange? For, if He be in the things that coincide, He must be in the coincidences of those things." George Macdonald

 

God help us to see you in all things

God help us to seek after you

God help us to listen to you

God help us to hear your voice 

When We Do Not Find Him

 

"Thy hand be on the latch to open the door at His first knock. Shouldst thou open the door and not see Him, do not say He did not knock, but understand that He is there, and wants thee to go out to Him. It may be He has something for thee to do for Him. Go and do it, and perhaps thou wilt return with a new prayer, to find a new window in they soul." George Macdonald

 

Help us to trust you

Help us to find you

Help us to listen to you

Revealed to Babes

 

"The wise and prudent must make a systems and arrange things to his mind before he can say, I believe. The child sees, believes, obeys - and knows he must be perfect as his Father in heaven is perfect. If an angel, seeming to come from heaven, told him that God had let him off, that He did not require so much of him, but would be content with less . . . the child would at once recognize, woven with the angel's starry brilliancy, the flicker of the flames of hell." George Macdonald

 

God help us to teach your word

God help us when we know not what to do

God speak your truth to us

God help us to follow you

Righteousness of Faith

 

 

"It is not the like some single separate act of righteousness: it is the action of the whole man, turning to good from evil - turning his back on all that is opposed to righteousness, and starting on a road on which he cannot stop, in which he must go on growing more and more righteous, discovering more and more what righteousness is, and more and more what is unrighteous in himself." George Macdonald

God help us to turn our back on all that is evil

God help us to understand you better

God help us to grow more and more in you

God help us to see more and more what is evil inside of us

God teach us what we are to do every day!!