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At times things just "occur" to me. You too? Once in a while they "occur" so randomly that I have trouble discerning if its me, "revelation", or just a random neuron firing. Something just dropped into my head/heart/spirit and I wanted to write it out quick before it scampered away. (Sorry. This is just the way my brain works.) We often struggle with grasping God's heart toward us. How does He see me? Really? Who am I in Him? I know there are a lot of answers that can be given to these questions. But what grabbed me about this one is that I wasn't even thinking about it at the time.
When God created the the universe, the world, and everything in it, He did it with a 'word'. He simply spoke, and it was. But when He created Man, he began with a pile of mud, shaped it into something that looked like Himself, then He got down face to face, mouth to mouth with this thing and breathed His own breath of life into it. Unique life unlike anything else in creation. Unlike any other being, animal or angel. That's our starting point. Mud and the breath of God.
There's only one other thing I know of recorded in scripture that is "God-breathed". And that is scripture itself. "All scripture is God-breathed (theopneustos)..." --2 Timothy 3:16 Is it any wonder then why we need to be immersed in the Word if we are to see ourselves and our world rightly? Breath of God calling to Breath of God? Deep calling unto deep? |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Good stuff Don. keep sharing revelation with us. |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Thanks Jeff. Love ya bro. |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Don that is fantastic! Please always share when those neurons of yours are firing! |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Thanks Charile. Appreciate you reading...and the encouragement. And I promise, next time one fires off, I'll let y'all know. (I have witnesses. He said always) |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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That's awesome Don!
I love the passage in James chapter 1 that says if we want to see who we are in the natural, we look into a mirror, but if we are to see who we are in the spirit, we have to look into the word of God! Which is exactly what you said when you said:
"Is it any wonder then why we need to be immersed in the Word if we are to see ourselves and our world rightly?"
I wrote a short blog on this very topic several weeks ago entitled "Spiritual Mirror" for those who care to read it.
I hope you don't mind me cross-linking. Feel free to delete this comment if that offends you.
Thanks for sharing! |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Yep, the only part of creation that He formed with His hands...it is almost like everything else he spun into place in pure boldness of all His glory. Then he stopped, kneeled down on both knees, and started putting together man. That same God who formed man with His hands would later become flesh and walk with us again. Almost too much to fathom... |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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MichaelA--Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about! And no offense at all. Thank you for looking for contributing. Bless you bro.
Voice--That's it!!! There's a connection between God and man that doesn't exist with anything else in all of creation. This brings tears. "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son..."--John 1:14 Message
And yes. Absolutely. "Too much to fathom..." |
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| December 14, 2007 |
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| Great one! |
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| December 17, 2007 |
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I'm reminded of two comments that happenned in church years ago,
1. Our pastor said, "there is a man in the heavenlies". For some reason that kicked in for the first time, that Christ came as a man. Not an etheral being,or some mode of existance, but as a man.
2. The first time I heard the phrase fro Basil, " what is not assumed is not healed". God didn't just come to participate in a mannish experience so that we would feel comforted that He cared for us, He assumed everything that made us man, even to the point of being tempted, and then overcoming that temptation to go to the cross, fully God, and yet fully man. When He was born he was born a real baby, in a real manger, to a real mother. God became flesh and dwelt among us ! Glory to God, in the highest! |
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| December 17, 2007 |
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Great additions to the discussion, Dennis. Thank you.
Thank you, Doyle.
Huge blessings on you today brothers! |
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