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| Don't you hate it when your past suddenly shows up out of nowhere and says, "I still know who you are"?
Yeah. Me too.
God, do you mind watching my back? I have a feeling I am going to need You around a little more right now.
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| Then Joshua rose early in the
morning; and he and all the sons of Israel set out from Shittim and
came to the Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed. At the
end of three days the officers went through the midst of the camp; and
they commanded the people saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant
of the Lord your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.
However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000
cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by
which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before."
During staff devotions this morning, this passage was read. It really caught my attention because I'm starting to realize slowly how much will be changing throughout the next few days and weeks. It isn't bad, but there are times when it's unsettling and I cry a little because all of a sudden it means so much more. There is a preciousness to it that never was before because it was normal, every day life.
Yet I don't need to fear. At all. The time is coming to "set out from this place" because there is something that God has planned for me from the beginning of time. As that time approaches, my focus just needs to be on Jesus and as He goes forward, I must follow.
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| It's a good thing You didn't give up on me yesterday. I almost broke something.
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| What could it possibly be that would cause a parent to kick their own child out of their house? Seriously! What could be that bad?!! Punishment we all deserve, but God never kicks us out. He may chasten us and allow bad things to happen so that we will get our act together, but He doesn't leave us with a pink slip, change of address forms or a "GET OUT" ultimatum.
Unfortuantely it's all to common. You see, we get all wrapped up in our laws ... in our intense legalism and then, because we believer ourselves to be at the top of God's totem pole, we start judging others according to how good we think we are.
And then a child loses her home.
And then siblings lose a sister.
And then parents lose their daughter.
The weird thing is that I'm not angry. Rather my heart is broken because someone has just put themselves in God's place. They have passed a judgement that was never theirs to pass. I guess one of the things that makes me saddest about the situation is that these people will probably be appluaded for "ridding their home of evil" as though some great deed was accomplished.
Could they be any more blind?
I wonder if this kind of pain and saddness was what Jesus felt when he repeatedly rebuked the Pharisees for their unbelief ... for their hypocrisy --- that deadly infatuation with the outward man.
Jesus didn't just want an external change. He wanted a heart change. I don't subscribe to the group that says that "God loves you just the way you are, therefore there is no need for change" because an encounter with the genuine, true love of God will not leave anyone unchanged --- I don't care WHO you are! If you have been touched by God's love, it will make an impact on you. It's up to you what you do with it, but it will have touched you in some way.
How can parents throw out a child in the name of God?
The honest answer: they can't. Not in the love of God.
And yet ... it kills me ... they think they are doing the right thing. It kills me. Would that they would encounter the truth ... and that the truth might set them free.
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| I need you
I miss you
And I wonder ...
if I could fall into the sky
do you think time would pass us by
cuz you know I'd walk a thousand miles
if i could just see you
if i could just hold you
tonight
I
was just looking at the bio picture i have up here and remembering that
night at Del Mar. I was sitting here going through all the things that
I would do to be with him right now. And then it hit me .... next time
we're there, we'll be married.
and suddenly time didn't seem quite so long.
funny how that works.
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