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How Far Will You Go?

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Many times I feel like Sam in the Lord of the Rings where he stops in the cornfield and declares that if he takes one more step it will be the furthest he has ever gone from the Shire.  Seems like I'm taking a lot of those steps in my life lately.  One thing I'm learning for sure is that you must let go of one thing to grab hold of another.  Sam could not take a journey with Frodo and still remain in the Shire.  He had to make a decision to leave the Shire life, his friends and family, and the routine events of his daily life.  These are critical decisions we must make in life.  Our hesitation or attempts to do both will result in diminished effectiveness and fruitfulness in our life and the lives of others.  Whether your willing to make these decisions depends on your outlook in life.  If you see the world as jesus sees it, then at some point you will need to step out and lay down your life and your wants and needs for others.  God gave me a vision of a well the other night.

What If

I was thinking yesterday what would it be like if we didn't have a church (physical building) to go to every week.  What would we do?  How would we develop spiritually, how would we teach our kids the Bible?  What would it be like if all of a sudden we had to think about it for our selves and take responsiblity for our own spiritual life?  I think many of us would need to dust some cob webs off and stretch some muscles that have not been used in a while.  Could we hear God's voice for ourselves?  If you had a critical life changing decision to make and there was no one to tell you what to do, could you hear the whisper of the Holy Spirit even in the midst of impossible circumstances that don't make any natural sense? Too many of our churches are weak and anemic because the people attending are weak and anemic.  If we are strong in the Lord and our lives are bearing fruit, then the church will be strong and bear fruit.  We have to step up and take responsibility for our ow

Meditating on Jesus

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In Ps 1:2, David tells us that our delight is to be in the law of the Lord, and in this law we are to meditate day and night.  I won't take the time to go into any depth on this, but I think its safe to say the law or the Word or the scriptures and Jesus are one in the same.  Yes, there is the written Word, but Jesus is the embodyment of the living Word.  What does it mean to meditate on Jesus day and night.  I've been convicted lately about how often I come to Him in prayer with all my bagadge, problems, hurts, and needs.  There is nothing wrong with that because the Word tells us to let our petitions be made known, but it also tells us to cast or cares upon Him.  That means to throw them off at Jesus feet like taking a heavey backpack off.  I'm afraid too often I carry it to him, then carry it back again, then carry it back the next day and so on.  We need to cast our cares upon him and leave them there.  Jesus knows every need and we can trust Him with all the cimcumst