Last week
March 22, 2010
It appears that if I can get one blog entry per week I am doing pretty good.
This last week saw 5 new pages.
Friend of God – Abraham was called that. And, for all his shortcomings, he was still called that. And his style of communicating with God, while reverant, was still completley honest. When God promised him an heir, he waited and he doubted. And he told God so.
We should be like that. There is not going to be a word that falls from our lips that God doesn’t know is coming. What kind of relationship can be intimate without a blatent honesty between the parties? God is painfully honest with us. He seeks us to do the same, and be a true friend of His. What a privelege!
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Closer – the first line of closer arrived as I turned into the cemetary. A place full of people who were. Some had surely lived in a way that they grew closer to God as they aged, others who didn’t. But the grave marks the end of our effort in that choice. And I started thinking about the qualities in us that can make us closer.
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Such were some of you – oh what hope that scripture is! The clearly implied change from what some in the church used to be… To what they are now! To what we are now. From what I was… To what I am! From how I used to walk, to how I can walk now.
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Standard song of surrender – is there such a thing? I don’t know. The principles of the surrendered life are common however. Lay down, let go, forget, step off, no returning.
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For this branch – inspired from a interview I heard on the All About Worship podcast. They were interviewing a man named Jared Anderson. He said something about his living with a hope that your last day before you die would be your best day.
I liked that. So I started with that. Then I pondered how that was a request of God, as all things are. And The relationship of being something tended by God for the fufilment of that desire. And few things take as much hands on care to produce an abundant crop as a vineyard.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” said Jesus. ( John 15:5)
For this Branch was the lyrical result of that pondering.
