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Jesus Is Our Foxhole Feb 25, 2023 The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such…
How to Handle Stuff Like 2020 Sep 29, 2020 It is the moment that absolutely will happen with any cross-cultural worker, educator or missionary…
Never Good Enough Oct 18, 2018 Do I love God’s law? Do I delight in the law of the Lord after the inward man, not wishing it less strict and holy, but loving it because it is holy? Am I as willing…
Soul Tired Sep 13, 2018 It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom, makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. Compassion takes away from the heart the inert weight, the paralyzing heaviness; it gives…
Decompressing off The Battlefield Jun 21, 2018 Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For…
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…
Saturated in Fatigue: Learning to Rest Oct 31, 2017 A re-post on trusting G_d when tired and disoriented… I need this often. In time of trouble go not out of yourself to seek for aid; for the whole benefit of trial consists in silence, patience,…
Bipolar Christianity May 26, 2017 Anxiety is not only a pain which we must ask God to assuage but also a weakness we must ask him to pardon—for he’s told us to take no care for the morrow. ~C. S. Lewis…
Rest And Belief: Intimate Bedfellows Mar 17, 2017 “The devil never rejoices more,” said Francis of Assisi, “than when he robs a servant of God of his peace of heart.” Peace and joy go a-begging when the heart of a Christian pants for one…
Fighting Against Battle Momentum: Learning to Be At Ease Nov 10, 2016 In time of trouble go not out of yourself to seek for aid; for the whole benefit of trial consists in silence, patience, rest, and resignation. In this condition divine strength is found for the hard…
False Thoughts Made Whole Oct 18, 2016 You’re not supposed to beat the enemy in ministry. You’re supposed to beat him in your relationship with God. Do you know that he is powerless against a man who just stands before God as a…
Fumbling into The Presence of G_d Sep 21, 2016 When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty…
The Cost of Our Work Aug 26, 2016 We have spoken of trying and trusting, and the difference between the two. Believe me, it is the difference between heaven and hell. ~ Watchman Nee Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands,…
Escaping Escape-Hatch Thinking Nov 8, 2015 God speaks to us unceasingly through the events of our life, through the firmness with which he negates our petty human ordering of it, through the regularity with which he disappoints our plans and our attempts…
Living Beyond Our Agendas Oct 30, 2015 Jesus Christ set a window in the tiny dark dungeon of the ego in which we all languish, letting in a light, providing a vista, and offering a way of release from the servitude of the…
Staying Still for The Long-Term Oct 21, 2015 Unlovely, nay frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world—this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God’s resplendent creation.~Ralph…
Gasping in His Arms Sep 19, 2015 Becoming a little child meant becoming aware that all is gift, that I am helpless and powerless to add a single inch to my spiritual stature. Without the subjective awareness of utter dependence, the personal consciousness…
Shine Like Stars in The Universe… Sep 18, 2015 He does not need to transplant us into a different field, but right where we are, with just the circumstances that surround us, he makes his sun to shine and his dew to fall upon us,…
Traction, And The Illusion of Control Sep 9, 2015 The life you live can outlive you. What matters in life is not what you accomplish or accumulate but rather what remains for all of time. Today, you may live in this world, but your life…
Going to Ground Aug 25, 2015 Do we feel dry, weary, filled with a sense of failure? In the twinkle of an eye we can relate our mood to Jesus Who one day felt the same way and collapsed exhausted by a…
Wasted, Drained, Done Jul 15, 2015 If Satan cannot distract you with worldliness, he will seek to drain you with weariness.~ Francis FrangipaneAt that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things…
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…
Post Victory Rehabilitation May 3, 2015 Bloody nose and burning eyesRaised in laughter to the skiesI’ve been in trouble but I’m okBeen through the wringer but I’m okWalls are falling and I’m okUnder the mercy and I’m ok~ Bruce Cockburn When I…
The Certainty of G_d’s Love Apr 30, 2015 It is not certain that everything is uncertain.~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)We start to see that His mind is really amazing; that the idea of God being smarter than us is not a matter of degree. He…
Battle Fatigue: Tired And OK Apr 8, 2015 A re-post on exhaustion“We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear—the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls…
Resting into Victory Jan 3, 2015 There are three kinds of faith in Christ: 1. Struggling faith, like a man in deep water desperately swimming. 2. Clinging faith, like a man hanging to the side of a boat. 3. Resting faith, like…
Learning to Let Go: The Suffering of The Firstfruits Dec 29, 2014 Receive every inward and outward trouble, every disappointment, pain, uneasiness, temptation, darkness, and desolation, with both thy hands, as a true opportunity and blessed occasion of dying to self, and entering into a fuller fellowship with…
Abandoning Chaos Aug 24, 2014 If you don’t surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.~E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973)Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will…
The Living Work of Rest Jun 8, 2014 The people who are always desperately active are a nuisance; it is through the saints who are one with him that God is doing things all the time. The broken and the jaded and the twisted…
The Resting of Obedience Jun 8, 2014 How shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest; there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half that Is withheld.…
Tetelestai! It Is Finished! Apr 18, 2014 “Tetelestai” doesn’t translate simply, we have to make a phrase out of it – “It is finished.” But still some of its power is lost in the translation. In the Greek it implies that something has…
The Clarifying Moments in Him Oct 20, 2013 We say that Jesus preached the gospel, but he did more. He came that there might be a gospel to preach.Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes…
The Danger of The Gospel Jul 2, 2013 Living in the Spirit means that I trust the Holy Spirit to do in me what I cannot do myself. This is completely different from the life I would naturally live of myself. Each time I…
Salvation is Surrender May 13, 2013 Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the…
The Pervasive Gospel Apr 11, 2013 The gentlest form of spiritual narcissism is the idea that one can accomplish one’s own spiritual growth… The belief that ‘I can do it’ is intimately associated with the assumption that ‘it is my idea, my…
The Rest in His Work for Us Aug 21, 2012 Heaven is not a resting place, where men may sleep out an eternity; there they rest not day nor night, but their work is their rest and continual recreation, and toil and weariness have no place…
He Gives More Grace Dec 22, 2011 Jesus carries us. Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity.…
Remix: The Myth of Balance (Rest) Jun 15, 2011 “This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and…