Posted on 01/07/2007 1:56:59 PM PST by Quix
Probably rebooting in your sense is much better
than being a dried out, mangled, discarded old boot!
And I disagree. You are the love and kindness of Jesus to me encouraging me through significant struggles and trials and at hopefully the end of a very long dark night of the soul. It's a blessing to regain some perspective and balance and hope from association with the Jesus in you.
Now to go reboot again... LOL!
LOL.
Methinks, Dear Heart . . . that praise--especially the honor where honor is due kind but really any praise . . .
is to be
1. passed up to Jesus
and to avoid
2. hoarding it and
3. feeding on it,
4. wallowing in it.
Passed up to Jesus it becomes a sweet sacrifice, fragrance.
Hoarded etc. it becomes a stinking deadly poison.
When we think we have EARNED IT BY OUR UNIQUELY CHOSEN righteous deeds AND our UNIQUE-BY-OUR-OWN-BOOTSTRAPS WONDERFULNESS . . . then we have bitten off more death.
When we realize that in us is no good thing but more death . . . and we latch onto being a conduit for God's Love and power/Spirit--that's different. Not that the latter is easy or always pure by any means.
But it helps when one has had one's own nose rubbed in one's own . . . so relentlessly as to never quite get rid of the stench except when focusing on the fragrance of Jesus.
I do not think that God has designed us to be clear plexiglas pipes. He designed us to be the personalities we are FOR HIS PURPOSES AND HIS DELIGHT. If he had wanted glass pipe robots, He'd have made glass pipe robots. He expects us to love with the flavor of our personalities but the core essence of HIM expressed in our, through our personalities, imho. And THAT IS His delight.
But given that He gave us our personalities and all good about them . . . there's no vain glory in that and we best keep that well in mind.
LUB,
Mary,
I have been studying Cole's books for about twenty years. He was the best teacher and a great apostle. I recommend reading his works to anybody.
Mary,
I have been studying Cole's books for about twenty years. He was the best teacher and a great apostle. I recommend reading his works to anybody.
Thanks, DV. When my youngest son was a teenager, he read it and liked it too. But he married a lovely young native woman and women are the heads of their homes there, unfortunately. It has to jangle him at times but then again, maybe not.
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