Eat The Word |
Notes on eating the Word. |
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Notes"As big as You are, I am small, but Your shepherding makes me great.
I adore You, Shepherd. You gently move alongside me and prod me into beauty. You take my nothing and make it something. You are a safe guide, a holy guide, a not-going-to-let-me-stay-in-one pasture guide.
When I look at You as shepherd, something changes in me. I have no more need to fend for myself or carve my own way. Your role offers me reprieve from being for myself what I was never intended to be. Your shepherding takes weight off my shoulders and lets me be child, trusting sheep.
And when I bury myself deep within You, because You are a safe shepherd — when your safety invites all of me in — I see that there is nothing I lack.
You hold in your hand everything I could possibly need. I adore You, oh fulfillment of me, fulfillment of life. And when I see You as Shepherd, I see that every single want inside of me can be asked for from You.
You offer it to me. You invite me to ask. You shepherd me into total dependence. And You make me want to ask for everything You hold in Your hand.
When I get lost in Your guidance I am found in Your safe-keeping and the want that grows inside of me is for all of You.
I love Your all of You, what little I know of it. I thank you for endless, unsearchable wealth found in You.
Simple shepherd, come to make Yourself personal to me. Holy shepherd, meeting needs I don’t even know I have yet and making me want only You.
"Sara Hagerty of Every Bitter Thing is Sweet
http://everybitterthingissweet.com/2011/03/my-shepherd/
(via minismith)
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Notes He’s faithfulTurn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged;bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
He is so faithful to come to us. Be with us. Make the Union he wants with us. He demands a covenant with us, and then he makes the promise for himself and for us. He stakes his life and loses, for us, for me. Matthew Smith. He forfeits life for me. Waging a war of submission. Three eternal days, he submits to total division from God to bring us total Union with God. It is finished.
Father, as Jesus asked, and promised in the word, bring us to be with you, with him where he is. Bring us near, draw us into you, into him, and into one another — one body together as we are one with you. Amen.
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Notes Stop BelievingMatthew, stop believing that this world or anyone in it owes you anything. Ditch the idea that disappointment is a surprise. Nothing here is made to last. There is only one thing worth pursuing and placing all your hope in - one Man.
Only one love will fulfill. He does not disappoint. He is always faithful, always present, ever-affirming.
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Notes Who is like you?I’m glad to be with you this morning. I don’t have to perform for you even though you’re the king adorned with a crown of stars. You’re immanent and transcendent in the same breath. Who is like you? Who can love me as you do? Who knows my mind, but you? To ‘Know thyself’ may be of some importance, but only in as much as it leads me to begin to know you - which will be my holy recreation for all eternity.
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"The Elven-wise, lords if the Eldar from beyond the furthest seas. They do not fear the ringwraiths, for those that have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power."
J R R Tolkien : the Fellowship of the Ring
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"6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."
Colossians 2:6-7
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Notes"7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead."Philippians 3:7-10
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"26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith."
Galatians 3:26
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"7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.12 So death is at work in us, but life in you."
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"Our desires must be submiitted to Gods’s design."
Pastor Seth Cain
