MyVeryHeart and PaulWest,My heart is filled with joy from reading your posts! What a blessing to be able to share these glimpses of the beauty of Gods own heart.May the Lord continue to richly bless you and keep you.In Christ Jesus
Amennnnnnnn !!!!!!!!! A thread that boasts in our weaknesses and glorifies the Living merciful gracious God who will not abandon us to our own deeds but by Love and correction and patience and kindness and longsuffering and faithfulness, brings us through the fires and is with us when we pass through the waters. The fires cleanses our souls and the waters washes us clean. Even in the fires of our scourgings, when we look closely, there is one like the Son of man standing with us. Oh how great and mighty is He. He said He would never leave us nor forsake us and He has never left us nor forsaken us. Each blow from the masters hammer and chisel reveals more of what lies beneath the block of stone. Once lifeless and formless, now shaped and molded by the Masters hand to rightly fit into the temple of the Living God..........brother Frank
I was very much a boaster. When I look back and reflect I hate that person. Self righteous, arrogant, heady, highminded, and being that person, practised a lot of disgusting things in the darkness of my naked soul. Today I keep my trap shut (by His grace). I think the Lord would have it so, for his servants to be ready to speak when He bids it and ready to keep quiet during seasons of being quiet. God is not in a hurry to save people as much as we are. Many times I have heard the voice of Jesus say, "come away, lets be alone together", only for me to rush off trying to do the Lords work. The Lord will certainly bless, but my soul was becoming like the hypocrite. A hypocrite is one who puts up a front that he has the goods of godliness and is naked blind within. It comes in subtley and a constantly ignoring the wooing of the holy Spirit for alone time.
Amen snuff.........brother Frank
