Friday, June 16, 2006

Hmm..

Sometimes there is nothing left to do but trust God and let our words be few. I choose to trust Him, though I understand nothing of what He is doing or why. I trust Him because I know He is good and faithful, no matter what I see with my eyes or hear with my ears. I will not put my trust in man. I will not put my hope in man. My hope is in the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He is a God of justice, therefore I repent in dust and ashes. If I have walked in presumption, I ask His forgivess. If I have operated in self-will, I ask His forgiveness. I ask only that in spite of me, in spite of the church, in spite of living in a crooked and perverse generation, that God's will would be done here in Gibsons, as it is in heaven; that all things here both in and out of the church would come into alignment with the perfect, pleasing will of God. I therefore offer myself as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Him, which is my spritual act of worship. I not only place my self there, but also the Town of Gibsons and our church.

Romans 12:1-3 (The Message)
Place Your Life Before God 1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
3I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.


Oh and by the way, to follow up from the "keys of the kingdom post" the second key is repentance..true repentance from not just sin, but our own dead works.. oh God, deliver us from our selfishness and our own agendas...

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