God Instructed?

As Dory told Nemo when they were trapped in the whale, "Now is the time to let go . . . everything is going to be all right." For some odd reason, my spirit sings when I hear those words . . . is it just me or is there something God-instructed in those words?

Feeling the Feeling Love

There are 2 ways we get to feel the feeling love - someone can love you or you can love someone - either way, you get to feel the feeling love. How nice that we can still feel the feeling love whether someone loves us or not.

Give Away Sorrows

Let's not confess our sorrows away or reason them away or deny them away or pretend them away or excuse them away or forgive them away - let your sorrows be as sad as they are - let them be as heavy as they are and as unbearable as they are . . . and then give them to Jesus. Let Him carry your sorrows. You're right - you can't bear them - they are too big for you. But He can bear them - they are not too big for Him. He misses seeing your sweet smiling face looking up at Him.

A God Instructed Tongue

"The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary." Isaiah 50:4. I can't think of anything I'd rather have than a God-instructed tongue that sustains the weary. How kind our God is. He never disdains the weary or says, "You deserve to be weary because you have behaved stupidly or disobediently or badly . . . so go away and do better-" even though that might be true many times. No, he sends words from God-instructed tongues to sustain us, the weary ones. Let us position ourselves to be able to both give an instructed word and receive an instructed word; let us embrace both our humanness and our divineness - our humanness that gets weary and our divineness that gives God-instructed words to the weary.

Know Me

Has anyone ever spread their arms to you and said, "Know me!" What a privilege that would be! And yet, that is what God says to us. He spreads his arms to us and says, "Know Me!" And yes, what a privilege . . . what an invitation!

Home to the Mother Lode Heart of God

Because of the way magnets act when they get close to each other, we could say that magnets groan and they yearn and they long to connect. We could say that magnets are not satisfied until they find each other.

Likewise, we could say that the Father seeks for us the way magnets seek each other - that God's heart and our heart are like magnets from the same mother lode. It is like God tears out a magnet piece from His mother lode heart and inserts it inside of each one of us where it, the torn out piece, continually cries out for the parent heart - it groans for, yearns for and longs for the mother lode parent heart and is not satisfied until it finds its way home.

One-Way Conversations

Imagine this scenario . . . you and God are sitting at a table and God is all happy to see you. So God asks you how you are doing and you say, being the good Christian that you are and hoping to impress God, "I am seated with God in heavenly places," and God laughs and He says, "Hmmmmm and all this time, I thought you were sitting across the table from me. No seriously, how are you doing?" And you say, not to be deterred, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live." And God laughs again and says, "I could swear that you were sitting across the table from me and you are telling me that you are dead! Okay, but how are you?" And you say, "Yet not I but Christ liveth in me!"

At this point, God could keep going but what is the point?! Do you think He might be mumbling "Can we just have a conversation? If I wanted to talk to Christ I wouldn't be asking you how you are doing!"

There is a time and a place for building our spirits up by quoting Scripture but there is also a time and a place for intimacy with God. Sometimes we are so detached from ourselves and from our God that we end up having one-way conversations. God save us from one-way conversations.