Friday 25 July 2014

Two Worlds

On earth, where we walk every day, drive to work only to sit in front of a computer screen, fuelling the economy and at the same time depleting it – we are only aware of one world. A three dimensional world. A world that, at the best of times, requires all five our senses. It is easy to get distracted by the monotonous. To get caught up in have to’s and want to’s. It is easy to drown out the knowing in your soul. Here we call it “our gut”. But it links in with a world that is not seen or perceived by any of our five senses. A very real world.
 
Unfortunately it’s also a world that we would much rather not think of. It’s not comfortable to try and walk in this world. It’s not easy to figure out how to live in this world. Partly because our flesh bounds us to earth. Only our souls are aware of this other world. And running in a world that you do not understand leads to arrogant chaos and inevitable hurt.
 
Problem is: this other world is far more real and infinite and the war being fought over there, affects our very day-to-day existence on this one.
 
Subtle attacks on a battlefield deprived of an empirically provable nature. Yet the doings are evident like the wind’s effects evident on everything it touches…

Friday 11 July 2014

Man of Steel

"The Holy Spirit put steel in your convictions" (1 Thessalonians 1 verse 5)
 
It makes me think of the latest Superman movie: Man of Steel and it just gives so much more weight to it. Jesus was fully man, but also fully God. If ever there was a man with the strongest convictions it was him - the REAL Man of Steel.
 
Oh Holy Spirit... put steel in my convictions too!

Friday 4 July 2014

Colossians 1 - strength...

"As you learn more and more how God works,
you will learn how to do your work.
We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul -
not the grim strength of gritting your teeth
BUT THE GLORY-STRENGTH GOD GIVES.
It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy,
thanking the Father who makes us strong enough
to take part in everything bright and beautiful he has for us."
 
"...everything got started IN HIM and finds it's PURPOSE in him"
 
"NOT ONLY THAT
but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe -
people and things
animals and atoms,
get properly fixed and fit together
in vibrant harmonies..."
 
 
{Oh how beautiful and comforting to know!
People
Things
Animals (I love this);
and even Atoms
 
Properly fixed and not just in harmony, but VIBRANT harmony!}


Philippians - lines from Paul's happiest letter...

2: "Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God.
That energy is God's energy -
an energy deep within you."
 
3: "I'm off running and I'm not turning back."
 
4: "...shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.
Before you know it,
a sense of God's wholeness -
everything coming together for good,
will come and settle you down.
 
"I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am"