Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night’
(‘Beware of Darkness’ from the 1970 triple album ‘All Things Must Pass’ by George Harrison)
Have you ever found yourself suddenly with a thought..
that you know has no place in Christ?
Weeds in the garden.
Realizing you are suddenly held captive
by these ‘things’ that…
if you put ‘them’ on display
in the picture frame…
Sadly …
‘it’.. would be a ‘self’ portrait.
Matthew 30
The Parable of the Weeds
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
a ‘dark card’ from within…
that is now brought before Light.
And has been turned from its…face down …
To face you.
1 Corinthians 4
He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts.
Hey…you and I have got to stop…
Stop blaming Satan for everything.
He uses time and circumstance
to get you to play with your ‘toys’.
That it is not just without…but within..
sprouts the weeds.
Captivated..
you cannot fathom this …
that this ‘thing’ is in ‘your hand’ .
Matthew 30
30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
Yes…He came that we may be ‘new’ creations in Him.
Yet…
we walk with shadows.
!Why?
This…. Maybe a clue.
2 Corinthians 12 – Pauls vision and His Thorn
7 To keep me from becoming conceited…
And..
the Way.
9 ..He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
as I run along...it is 5:50 am
I begin the incline..up Prospect Street.
My pace slows with the added stress of the hill..
with a mile to go…quiet save my footfalls…and I ask God-
‘What about miracles…do we need more miracles?..’
John 10
38 But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
What about miracles?
Faith..through the writings in scripture, which have been written on your heart and mind.
Faith..that what has been written about Him has happened.
Faith..that He has done the very thing He set out to do.
Faith..that He has done everything that has been written.
Faith…that you hold a miracle in your hands..every time you open your bible.
And that,
well, maybe what we would consider a ‘miracle’
a Lazarus..a withered hand restored…a blind man seeing…
is not for you….or me..
But for someone else.
John 15
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
like that someone else…sees the dead come to Life
in the resurrected Christ walking before them..
in you and me.
We won’t notice..because we have made the most important decision in our lifetime..
To look at Him in Spirit through Faith, rather than looking at someone ...or something else.
Well, I have arrived back home..nearly 6.0am.
As I look at my ‘watch’
I think 'my time sucked'..
but isn’t that the Way sometimes?
As you go Today..with a head full..
Stop being so concerned with ‘other people’ getting ‘It.’
They will..
When you and I do.
Faith...is the Word
Read it...Believe it.
It has been done...for you and I.
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