Journey Out of Hiding

  What is this feel my God? what the freak is it.  It hurts so bad, as these always do when they get this bad, turned up so to speak. The heat, "we are all burning bushes" I have heard Paul Young to say; after he says he spends his days goes around with his shoes off listening to people's stories. The fire that burns but does not consume.. Moses saw it.. George MacDonald talked of it, "Our God is a consuming fire".  What are You consuming in me today? Or wishing to, inviting me to.. absolutely requiring my agreement before You do; yet dragging me all the while. How confusing you are.  How can You be so good and so, dare I say, annoying?  I love You and I hate You.. not really but the process!~ WHEN will it be done?!  Oh, yes, I am reminded now, when I am dead; then the great transformation can take place. I must die, as Jesus has already paved the way for me; it is no fear. Then I will no longer groan with birth pangs for the land I don't even know yet. ...

First we are forgiven First Forgiven then the faults, the errors, the missteps, mistakes, choices. Do we think God is stupid? Do we think He didn't see it coming? Us, the image barers the children being silly? or ignorant or doing dumb stuff  because we just simply didn't know better or can't do better... yet rebellious, o that too deceived? Some times we are lied to, do we think God can't allow for that? Why do we think He doesn't allow for mistakes? We think He is like us... painted in our image.. O, but it is the other way round. When we grow, we grow magnanimous and then we fall again too Which God doesn't allow for that? The One who planned from our creation to come  into the womb of a woman and be born an infant to walk our walk, to show us Himself... "If you have seen ME, you have seen the Father" Planned from the foundation of the world To Die too as we all will He entered death because we all do Even in dying we will not be alone,  He's be...

"Come into your relationships with this understanding, ~ I have not made a mistake       ~in making you ~." A simple tool to participate with Jesus in transforming our minds: Take a truth, a scripture, something said that inside you responded with.. "there may be some truth to this."  It possibly is an invitation to receive, to believe. There is a scripture that says to believe is to grasp onto... esp. when it is so easy to dismiss that there is anything good about me, besides when I do well.  I believe sometimes we are blocked from "doing well" in order to have to learn, to open up to, to beg for help to believe, that we are good with out it. We do not have to be blocked either, we block ourselves enough with our misbelief, our being deceived...that was never punished by they way. But what if we do not believe? What if we find ourselves begging for help to believe? Well, we are in good company then...   I am reminded of the story of the man who...