When Legalism Liberates
Grace does not waive our legal offenses. It places them upon the cross where appropriate punishment was enacted.
One who takes lightly his legal offenses, is prone to lightly regard his legal benefits. Our legal benefits in Christ are empowered by grace. Or, we are empowered by grace to apprehend and experience the legal permissions . . .
Some of My Most Horrible-est Things
- Tasteless fruit
- Wilted Lettuce
- Poor reception during play-offs
- Misrepresenting people’s words and actions on purpose
- Atrophied muscles
- Assigning value to worthless things
- Watching the eyes of a disappointed child brim full and spill over with tears
- False Equations: Counting desire or knowledge as acquisition . . .
How Simple God’s Will
How simple to know God’s will.
Jesus said that He was from God and only said and did what He heard and saw the Father say and do.
He called Himself the Vine, and us, the branches. Apart from Me, He said, you can do nothing.
However, He then said, If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you . . .
The Matter
Oh Lord my God,
My Maker and Father,
How is it that I fear
To ask You to search my heart
And see if there be an offense toward You
Inside of it,
Or any obstruction to knowing and perceiving
A fuller measure of Your presence,
When You are the only one
To whom the state of my heart -
My . . .
By Faith
Faith is not some whimsical muse, some will-o’-the-whisp. It doesn’t flit here and there void of our volition - any more than love is a feeling that comes and goes.
Sometimes faith is unconscious. Ofttimes it is deliberate, intentional. We must have the ability to exercise or employ faith, else why would we be expected to live by . . .
Leaving Home
Sowing and Reaping
God set up the law of sowing and reaping. All things shall reproduce after their own kind. There would be forever, spring time and harvest. This sovereign law governs life in the earth and makes conditions possible for man to experience the wonder of planting and gathering produce. The law brings, not merely food, but enough seed for . . .
