What good are muscles when the storms and floods of life sweep by? When smiles turn to glares and our senses no longer confirm cause for hope in being loved-- What hope is there in the external world when our inner-mind's occupied with distracting conditions of the life the world associates with the human flesh.
What good is the world's intimacy when the pain of separation of our Perfect Father distances you from the completeness of your inner person?
Cross-fit won't overpower the circumstances that leave our souls robbed of any viable evidence of being loved any longer. When memorized sayings, quotations, and love-songs of the world are all totally useless when the promise of our inclusion in the good of life is in question-- When we're in the depths of the darkest nights, treading in old, slippery places where our feet can find no ground up which to stand, He causes us remain standing. Even when senses haven't confirmed it and in places where not even a single rock of the old foundation of our lives remains, when hope seems lost-- God is on our Side.
What good is the world's intimacy when the pain of separation of our Perfect Father distances you from the completeness of your inner person?
Cross-fit won't overpower the circumstances that leave our souls robbed of any viable evidence of being loved any longer. When memorized sayings, quotations, and love-songs of the world are all totally useless when the promise of our inclusion in the good of life is in question-- When we're in the depths of the darkest nights, treading in old, slippery places where our feet can find no ground up which to stand, He causes us remain standing. Even when senses haven't confirmed it and in places where not even a single rock of the old foundation of our lives remains, when hope seems lost-- God is on our Side.
What we know of Him and the strength His conviction in our place is the spiritual treasure that makes our heart so valuable that we protect it above everything else. The Word that we've come to know and discover ourselves as the eternal recipients and heirs of, is the rock-solid truth of Life that He unveiled in Himself, filling our hearts in a way that totally saves us. On the rock of His teaching, we're standing firm even when the shifting of the tides leave me no way to regain our stance and recoil back up above the surface of the cold and love-less waters that swallowed me whole and hid from me the Divine Radiance of my own face... the strength of Him in me yet remained, and He saved me.
This strength was not there by accident but by design. What saved me was not the glory I'd built in my own name, but my deliverance from the old name and everything in it by His Grace's association of Himself with me and the NEW name that His association confers upon me, a name enduring even in the presence of contradictions and the most trying times. Indeed, it's God's faith we all depend on above any other, a fact most evident when even without any sense of a reason to rest in our ourselves, the seed of the hope of God in us remains and His resurrection already neutralized and overthrew every definition that death ever had in us.
His own personal name forever references His containment of all we are and all we have.
This strength was not there by accident but by design. What saved me was not the glory I'd built in my own name, but my deliverance from the old name and everything in it by His Grace's association of Himself with me and the NEW name that His association confers upon me, a name enduring even in the presence of contradictions and the most trying times. Indeed, it's God's faith we all depend on above any other, a fact most evident when even without any sense of a reason to rest in our ourselves, the seed of the hope of God in us remains and His resurrection already neutralized and overthrew every definition that death ever had in us.
His own personal name forever references His containment of all we are and all we have.
In His name, the seed of God's faith in us remains alive and strong. His name continues to completely define us. His name has always been all about fully containing all that we are and all we have, and establishing our security in heaven. God announced that in Jesus He has already saved and completely backed us up in Himself in Heaven, forever.
So as the image of Christ is Himself fully-formed in my mind's eye and my soul is awakened to the completeness of His likeness in me, I'm grateful for the security of His power over us. -f
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