LIBERTY

Liberty and grace go hand in hand. We're called to liberty, and all who are in Christ will feel no obligation but an abundance of love. So know that if you act because you feel bound, then you are constrained; acting against the will of God for your life.

HINDSIGHT

I was encouraged today, hearing an old timer speak on hindsight. How the Lord brought him to the place he was. He could look back on the moments God was teaching him dependancy and a growth in faith. I have hope now to look to the present as growth.

CONDITIONAL

I hear people say, "It's a different time, things don't translate as they did in biblical days." God has been dealing with people a long time, and the culture may be different but the condition of our hearts isn't. We haven't changed and neither has He or His statutes.

THAT KIND OF LOVE

We dream our whole lives to be loved; it's what we crave. We have an idealistic picture of the perfect relationship or person in our heads. If we realized how much God loves us, more than idealism; That kind of love... can change the world, motivating lackadaisical into action.

DEFEATED

I'm going to be honest. There are times in life when you rely on what you know, on the bedrock who is Christ; ignoring emotions, to make it through circumstantial means to get to the foundational end. I feel... defeated in many areas, and He's my substructure through it all.

INSECURITY

The world sets a standard to which we are measured. We give in by handing over our rights to insecurity. They shape us, frighten us, and make us act. We find our hope in everything and everyone but the one who can set things right and bring us establishment.

COFFEE TALK

A man told me today that his wife drank and drove the opposite way down an off-ramp with his twin daughters killing herself and them instantly. They were three. Cops told him, he dropped to the floor, He didn't even know his wife was a drinker. He now laughs.

MUSIC

There is something about music that changes moods and twists emotions. It can make a person move both physically and internally. Whether it's either mentally or spiritually, everyone loves music. God also has these same powers, this is why I see God in music, it's a gift from Him.

JOHN 8:15

"You judge after the flesh, I judge no man." Jesus doesn't separate, or esteem, or select or choose. He doesn't prefer, approve, decree, or give opinion. If He does judge, it is in truth. If we do not judge in full compassion and truth, we are in the flesh.

OPPOSER

We feel characteristics of God in peaceful moments. We read about His goodness in His word, and we recognize truth when we hear it. So we know that every thing that opposes these traits are not from Him but devices of the enemy; therein we discern light from dark.

2 CORINTHIANS 2:15-16

"For we are the aroma of Christ to God to those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is adequate for such a task as this?" ESV - NLT.

CAPTIVATED

Just got home from a great weekend at Forrest Home. God has always met me in large ways there. This year He stole my heart and brought me to tears... Admittedly much more as well; changing my perspective in massive ways. I've only begun this next stage of life.

TEAR DOWN

Paraphrasing Alan Redpath; God's great purpose and ultimate goal for our lives is to destroy all confidence in ourselves and tear down our flesh only then to create a new reliance on the spirit, by building our faith and renewing our souls to establish a supernatural confidence in Himself.