dW 09.15.07

Yes, I know it is Saturday. Consider it make up for the days I did not send anything out this past week. J Plus I liked this so much I had to pass it on. My good friend Kieran sent this to me. I put it in the normal dW format but did not alter its contents in any way.

 

Blessings, Kyle

 

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scripture

 

Jeremiah 8:8-9 "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.  The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?"

James 1:22  

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

background

 

The Jews to whom Jeremiah was prophesying were great hearers of the word.  They went to the temple, and then went about their life.  They had a Sabbath life that, in their eyes, enables them to do whatever they wanted with their secular life.

thoughts

That double-mindedness makes God furious.  It denies His truth and robs His glory.  It makes His people ineffective and unattractive.  An independent life cloaked by a Sunday-service Christianity is a mockery of God and a drain on the world (a wise man once told me, "Everyone has two choices in life; you can be a fountain or a drain.").

May we today, strive to be doers of the word; to be fountains of His active love and grace to the world around us.

Blessed beyond measure, Kieran

dW 09.14.07

scripture

 

Isaiah 30:21

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."  

 

quote

 

A person who wishes to begin a good life should be like a man who draws a circle.  Let him get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.  Let a man first learn to fix his heart on God and then his good deeds will have virtue, but if a man's heart is unsteady, even the great things he does will be of small advantage. 

Johannes Eckhart

 

This Day’s Thoughts – Thursday

dW 09.10.07

scripture

 

Mark 5:30-32

At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.

 

background

 

A synagogue ruler, named Jairus, comes to Jesus and asks him to come heal his daughter who is deathly ill. While in route to this man’s house there’s a crowd that presses in on them because they want to see Jesus. In the midst of the crowd a woman reaches out and touches Jesus’ cloak. She touches his cloak because she believed that in doing so she would be healed.

 

thought

 

Jesus paused on his way to heal this man’s daughter. He was about serious business. This was life or death. But he stopped. He did not see this woman as a distraction but met her need right there. Do we miss out on God’s work because we are too busy going about our own? Are the things that we see as distractions really the good deeds that God has predestined for us to do?