Abiding

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Let It Burn… Our Warfare Is Ended Mar 23, 2022 Control is an illusion, but isolation is not.
Beholden to One Voice Feb 1, 2022 Oh! Listen to My Voice, eagerly, joyfully. Never crowd it out. I have no rival claimants, and if men seek the babble of the world, then I withdraw. Life has hurt you. Only scarred lives can…
Stop, Drop, And Wait-State Dec 4, 2021 To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and…
What If You Got Everything You Think You Wanted? Sep 12, 2021 There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in…
Our Father: Our Unchanging Home Nov 7, 2020 Christ takes the lowest place, and is exalted to the highest place. He is not attached to earthly things, and therefore enjoys all things. He empties Himself, and is thereby complete.~ from The Tao Te Ching…
Living Through The Pain: Walking in The Spirit Jul 12, 2020 Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into His service, and place all the hours of this day quite simply at His disposal, and ask…
Church: The Great Why May 15, 2020 Why is it so important to know G_d?
Infant on The Anvil Nov 22, 2019 We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.~ Henry Ward Beecher For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for…
Love That Makes The Darkness Tremble Mar 3, 2019 For bravery none compares with our Lord. He never turned His head from danger, not even when hell’s hatred and heaven’s justice appeared against Him.~William Gurnall The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes…
The Jealous Protection of Our King Nov 24, 2018 The violent winds of suffering and trouble blow us into the Lord’s protective hands.~Sadhu Sundar Singh I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with…
Love Is Mine. I Own It. Nov 11, 2018 “I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn’t have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.” Charles said, “But she thought you were pathetic.”…
Wounding A Man, That He Might Be Healed Oct 31, 2018 It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.~A.W. Tozer Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For He wounds,…
Am I Enough for You? Aug 20, 2018 Whenever our Lord talked about the relation of a disciple to Himself it was in terms of mystical union: “I am the vine , ye are the branches.” We have not paid enough attention to the…
Domine, non nisi Te Aug 10, 2018 The flood of temporal things draws us after itself, but in this flood there is, as it were, a full-grown tree: our Lord Jesus Christ. He took flesh, died, and ascended to heaven. It is as…
Salt And Light to Share The Bread of Life Aug 5, 2018 Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. ~Vance Havner “Let Me tell you why you are here. You’re here to…
Soul Rest in The Midst of Exhaustion May 23, 2018 When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to the Apostles, the Prophets, and all the Saints and Righteous Ones, then…
Moving The Fulcrum of Our Minds May 17, 2018 The Kingdom of God is initially a foreign country to us. We are not residents of the world, but citizens of Heaven, learning what that means. Our first experience in life is with the language and…
G_d Ain’t Got No Dog in The Fight Mar 25, 2018 There’s no shadow You won’t light up Mountain You won’t climb up Coming after me There’s no wall You won’t kick down Lie You won’t tear down Coming after me There’s no shadow You won’t light…
Stillness: The Fastest Way to Fight Feb 6, 2018 It is joyful to feel that we do not and cannot have any enemies among men, but only unhappy brethren, who are deserving of pity and help, even when, through misunderstanding, they become our enemies and…
Obedience in The Dark of Night Dec 5, 2017 Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness. ~St. John…
The Ache: Wanting My Deep to Find Its Home Sep 21, 2017 When I attempted . . . . to describe our spiritual longings, I was omitting one of their most curious characteristics. We usually notice it just as the moment of vision dies away, as the music…
Shipwrecked at The Prison Cell’s Open Door Sep 17, 2017 You are free. You just don’t know it yet. ~Francine Rivers For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery… For you were called to…
Our Schizophrenic faith Aug 26, 2017 Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed…
Just Passing Through Aug 17, 2017 The immutability of God appears in its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of men. In God no change is possible; in men change is impossible to escape. Neither the man is fixed nor…
Stop It! How? Now! Aug 16, 2017 You will lose your way the minute you decide to go your own way. When you seek God’s will alone, you find it everywhere, and you cannot go astray. Wanting what God wants always puts you…
Surrounded by G_d’s Goodness And Mercy May 29, 2017 “To say to an Orthodox Jew, “I would like to have dinner with you,” is understood as “I would like to enter into friendship with you.” Even today, members of Orthodox Jewry will share a donut…
The Destiny of Who We Are May 5, 2017 “We know not what we shall be”; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled…
April Storms Bring Eternal Flowers Apr 30, 2017 What then is God? Of the universe he is the final end; as to election, he is salvation; as to himself, he hath knowledge. What is God? Omnipotent will, virtue of highest benevolence, light eternal, reason…
Learning to Believe That I Am Enough Feb 26, 2017 Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough. ~ Graham Cooke Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first…
Wanting It All for The Right Reasons Nov 3, 2015 Insecurity not only paralyzes our relationship with the living God but has a devastating effect on interpersonal relationships. It is the starting point of all social estrangement. It breaks down openness, which is the bridge to…
Rogue Waves: Learning to Abide Under Stress Oct 28, 2015 All I can do therefore is to “abide in Him,” and He does all the rest. And this satisfies me in my very soul. I am filled with Jesus and therefore I am filled with righteousness!…
Breathable Atmosphere Sep 16, 2015 A re-post on culture stressFaith does not struggle; faith lets God do it all.~ Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear…
Already Gold Jul 11, 2015 A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.~Dwight Lyman Moody…
Failure’s Doorstep: Setting Priorities Jan 4, 2015 If you’re a Christian, here’s the good news: who you really are has nothing to do with you— how much you can accomplish, who you can become, your behavior, your strengths, your weaknesses, your sordid past,…
Utterly Dependent Nov 11, 2013 Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.~…
Three Fingers Pointing Back… Sep 16, 2013 Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.…
Walking The Path Jun 10, 2013 Dark as my path may seem to others, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid toward…
One Year with Princess Sarah Jun 6, 2013 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but…
Him in us in Him Oct 28, 2011 This was the strength of the first Christians, that they lived not in one world only, but in two, and found in consequence not tension alone, but power, the vision of a world unshaken and unshakable.…