5:7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight);
I was reading Mikes most recent post, and as this trip through the bible has me walking through Psalms, looking through the Psalms I'm really struck by how much they seem to be a model for relationships.
Maybe the lord wants me just to be real. Which to me is scary, it seems to go so much against all my experience. Being real with my creator. What a concept. But I was busy trying to be perfect, trying to come up with the perfect manipulation. I know since the beginning of the year the Lord has been trying to get me to move from twas Grace that taught my heart to fear part of the song to Grace my fears relieved stanza. Learning to trust the lord for provision. I still have a long way to go concerning financial woes, but I believe I've become more familiar with the fact that the Lord is my shepherd.
One thing I've noticed this year is that since the Lord is his word (don't ask me what that means) That he knows where I should be in the Bible. But I like to go through the Bible methodically on my terms. But the lord wants me in 2 Corinthians today, and if I'm able to trudge through the Psalms that's OK but he wants me in 2 Corinthians. I'm just grateful to have that much clarity. I used to not really know what to do with a Bible. When I was a kid I was a good Lutheran kid, that is to say that I went to Church, and confirmation, but I was mostly familiar with a bible when it came time to pick it up and dust under it on Saturdays.
But I think I'm beginning to understand what's meant by the living word.
5:17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, `he is' a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
Blessings,
David |
