Hello Lovely Ladies!
My PC has been returned to the manufacturer (HP) with an estimated turnaround time of 2-5 weeks! So there will be no daily blog-spot in the foreseeable future. I am sorry about that however I have no access to my resources, Bible program, books or ... ...
Please know that I pray for you each day and that You are never far from my thoughts. I am wondering whether God is changing up my life and the way I 'do' priorities and what will come out of this lifestyle challenge! Keep me in your prayers. Perhaps I am in a new season and some things need to be 'dropped' and new ones picked up? I'll keep you posted as to the outcome of my ponderings! Currently I am in the 'pencil pushing' phase of noting from books and copying out Scriptures Holy Spirit leads me to. Back to the future??!!
In the meantime ... I wait, waiting - expectant of some interesting revelations, insight, wisdom and more.
Keep in touch ... you are all on a very interesting journey and I am grateful to be able to share in it with you.
Love and blessings
xoM
Dailies
Daily encouragement from the Scriptures for friends who are facing tough personal challenges in life. Be encouraged! You are not alone! Jesus walks with you every moment!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Hello Lovey Ladies!
Well ... I am still off air and praying for a miracle. My PC came back without the internet established ... here that is. it worked well in their office. HOWEVER ... for some strange reason I am missing Office 2016 which features Word and all the docs I have created in the past 20 years!! So back to Geek Squad tomorrow or Monday and we'll see if they can re-load Office and recover all my docs. Currently they are presenting as a PDF 'unopenable' file!!
So my question is ... does our Lord want me to leave behind ALL of the past writings and start afresh because I am a new creation OR is the evil one really ticked off a my writing that I have been planning to publish that he has thrown a spanner in the works ... temporarily?
Questions! Questions! I'll keep you posted!
Miss you heaps!
Love and blessings
xoM
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
43. Obey and Abide
John 15:10 (NRSV) If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my
love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
Reference has been made to the entrance into a life of rest
and strength which has often come through a true insight into the personal love
of Christ, and the assurance that that love indeed meant that He would keep the
soul. In connection with that transition, and the faith that sees and accepts
it, the word surrender or consecration
is frequently used. The soul sees that it cannot claim the keeping of this
wonderful love unless it yields itself to a life of entire obedience.
This is the thought we have here now in our Savior's
teaching. After having in the words, "Abide in My Love," spoken of a
life in His Love as a necessity He states what its one condition is: "If you keep My Commandments, you shall abide
in My Love." This is surely not meant to close the door to the abode
of His Love that He had just opened up. No—the
precept is a promise. "Abide in my
Love," could not be a precept
if it were not a promise. Through His Will, loved and done, lies the path to His Love.
Obedience is the positive keeping of the commandments of our
Lord, and the performance of His Will in everything in which we know it. Faith
in Christ as our Vine, in His Enabling and Sanctifying Power, equips us for
this obedience of faith, and secures a life of abiding in His Love. It is the
Heavenly Vine unfolding the mystery of the life He gives. It is to those
abiding in Him to whom He opens up the secret of the full abiding in His Love.
It is the wholehearted surrender in everything to do His Will, that gives
access to a life in the abiding enjoyment of His Love.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
42. Abide in My Love
John 15:9 (NRSV) As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you;
abide in my love.
Abide in My Love—we
speak of a man's home as his abode. Our
abode, the home of our soul, is to be the Love of Christ. We are to live
our life there, to be at home there all the day—this is what Christ means our
life to be, and we with Him really can make it so. Our continuous abiding in
the Vine is to be an abiding in His Love.
The Love of the Father
to the Son is not a sentiment—it is
a Divine Life, an infinite energy, an irresistible power. It carried Christ
through life and death and the grave. The Father loved Him and dwelt in
Him, and did all for Him. So the Love of Christ to us too is an Infinite Living Power that will work in
us ALL He delights to give us.
All too often the feebleness of our Christian life is that
we do not take time to believe that this Divine Love really does delight in us,
and will possess and work ALL in us. We do not take time to look at the Vine
bearing the branch so entirely, working all in it so completely. We strive to
do for ourselves what Christ alone can, what Christ so lovingly longs to do for
us.
In faith we are to cast ourselves on Christ to work it in us—
this is the secret of the true Christian
life.
Q: But how to come to this faith?
… Turn away from the visible if you want to see
and possess the invisible. Take more time with Jesus, gazing on Him as the Heavenly
Vine, living in the Love of the Father, wanting you to live in His Love. Turn
away from yourself and your efforts and your faith. Abiding means going away
from everything else, to occupy one place and stay there. Come away from all
else, and set your heart on Jesus, and His Love and that Love will awaken your
faith and strengthen it. Occupy yourself with that Love, worship it, wait for
it. You can be sure it will reach out to you, and by its Power take you up into
itself as your abode and your home.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
41. The Wonderful Love—
John 15:9 (NRSV) As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you;
abide in my love.
Even as the Father has
loved Me—
Q: and how did the Father love Him?
The infinite desire and delight of God to communicate to the
Son all He had Himself, to take the Son into the most complete equality with
Himself, to live IN the Son and have the Son live IN Him—this was the love of
God to Christ. It is a mystery of glory of which we have no concept—we can only
bow and worship as we try to think of it. And with such a love, with this very
same love, Christ longs in an infinite desire and delight to communicate to us
ALL He is and has, to make us partakers of His own nature and blessedness, to
live IN us and have us live IN Himself.
However, this question arises … if Christ loves us with such
an intense and infinite Divine Love, what is it that hinders it triumphing over
every obstacle and getting full possession of us?
… The answer is simple. Even as the Love of the
Father to Christ, so His Love to us is a Divine Mystery, too high for us to
comprehend or attain by any effort of our own. It is only God’s Holy Spirit Who
can shed abroad and reveal in its all-conquering power without ceasing this
wonderful Love of God in Christ. It is the vine itself that must give the
branch its growth and fruit by sending up its sap. It is Christ Himself Who must
by His Holy Spirit dwell in the heart—then we shall know and have in us the
love that passes all understanding and knowledge.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)