Monday, January 13, 2014

breakthrough: being smart is for the wind

Jesus doesn't need me to be smart. That was a new thought for me.  And when He kept bugging me about this, my conscience knew that it was true. And after I believed it, I felt relief. Our world today tells us that you will succeed if you know a lot. You will be respected if you strive after it's knowledge. People will admire you. He doesn't need me to be smart. In fact, He calls the weak and the foolish to follow Him. "But...

Saturday, January 11, 2014

I wait.

I wait. Dear Lord, Thy ways  Are past finding out, Thy love too high. O hold me still Beneath Thy shadow. It is enough that Thou Lift up the light  of Thy countenance. I wait- Because I am commanded  so to do. My mind Is filled with wonderings My soul asks "why" But then the quiet word, "wait thou only upon God." And so, not even for the light to show a step ahead,  But for Thee, dear...

Going through the book of Hosea, and realizing this is our world today. See HOW great a love the Father has bestowed upon us. After we have turned aside, played the whore, determined to go after filth. After we have turned aside from our God, sacrificing our very lives to other gods. After we have stubbornly wasted all. After all this, He says, "I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for My anger has turned from them. I will be like the dew to Israel..." (Hos. 14:4) "O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and...