Did Raise [Us] Up
The recurring question and call are about belief. God surprised our not believing. Asking for affirmative trust above all else and not be afraid. Jesus' disciples needed help to achieve this. Then the Spirit came. Here was the solution.
The Word and The Spirit -- our solution. The how and what. The who and present. Seeking engagement, attention and response. Locked-in connection and circumstances, a matter of leading and... faith.
Believing God. Achieve specific word-based purposes. The mission proceeds. Trusted with little, which is a lot. Everything for Living: To attend to the word and God. Farming with seed. The specific and purpose.
There's nothing too up-to-now, that wasted and destructive, we can't repent of. This promised. Get on and get in the word and -- in... the Spirit.
Faith comes by hearing... and here we can live anew. Serve God -or- what? And this all day. In and about whatever else we 'have to' do. Remain in me and...
(Typing to ever tell m'self, what's doing.)
Reading BBB, The Saker and PCR are enough. Current events and somehow what matters. Called to speak out and about, to the unseen... to God. Or, what's the value in knowing? Trying to analyse and get the war and what might be the right hopeful resolve. To ask for what?
Most ...most, of the time, am asking nothing because about getting equipped. Should re-phrase; becoming aware of the equipping at hand.
This early morning outlet is a sermon to myself. Must get off all and any pretence for 'another'. No justification for me and 'out there'. Write to read back and encourage. Alone with God.
The question back could be -- even if... God is connecting with -- so? Well and because, this our 'justification' if we... believe and make good of:
even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,) and did raise [us] up together, and did seat [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
Our heart for strengthening up in this. Somehow aware and able. How about Weymouth's translation: raised us with Him [Jesus] from the dead, and enthroned us with Him in the heavenly realms as being in Christ Jesus. . . .
'Seated' as enthroned. What can this mean, we're for and able and... meant to do?
In conclusion: Sit and I'll make... is where the apprehending of authority rests. Where to fulfill callings and be useful ones.
Look back = not fit. Mumble faithless wonderings ahead = sow into 'choking thorns'.
Sit 'in' the word... in God, in places unseen that are for the world in action. Are we anything like aware of what's going on? Not speculation but factual dynamics that should have me/us shaking and calling. Charismatics on a song are a help but obviously ignore the bubble-vision.
Eric Zuesse on Saker and comments the read. What and where God -- leads me -- to care somehow and cry out. And all m'got is this day. Not to substitute and squander. To read the word and get focussed on one-direction. As wider-war might loom and God wanting peace.
All thoughts of hands-tied fate are anti-Christ. All cares of this world -- piffle.
No, justify me in the eyes of others, may God know and remould my heart.
What people value highly is detestable in God's sight. Get why? Context. What might be more acceptable or even appreciated by God, say art and culture for instance? If... it wasn't embedded in the web of media deceit to such monstrous levels. Involuntary doses of TV comes to mind. How is it God doesn't let us mass-destruct? What grace and mercy.
Deliver me from the deceptions and not-God accusations.
Amen.