are self-righteous/prideful. All Christians trying to fix/change other humans, unless asked, are self-righteous/prideful, leaning on their own understanding, wise in their own eyes. Human-wisdom-reliant. Includes government-forced morality on others. The conscience is reached by love and humility, but forced-morality is resented and resisted. The biggest problem with democracy is that the majority attempts to force…

when I’m human-wisdom-reliant, and it’s like being in prison, being in bondage, being addicted — a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad way to go through my day. Wrong things like my performance, reputation, worthiness — even things like my emotional health and spiritual health. When I DON’T care about those lesser things, it’s ALWAYS because the…

A humble Christian SMILES at self and others, rather than judging self and others — finding fault with self and others. A humble Christian enjoys everyone just as we are, and everything just as it is, seeing Jesus behind everyone and everything, all according to His genius plan. Curious and expectant to see what Jesus…

n the eyes of others, is that we become wise in our own eyes, and lean on our own understanding. This is NOT biblical-wisdom, but human-wisdom. Biblical-wisdom is realizing that we have NO wisdom worth leaning on, but that Jesus DOES. We do NOT know what’s best, but Jesus DOES. Biblical-wisdom is sanity/faith/dependency/humility and results…

And not in charge! WOOOHOOOO! Resurrected Jesus is living His life through me, and He’s in charge. So I can relax, and be curious/expectant to see what He does NEXT, in me, others, circumstances. Jesus is behind everyone and everything. This is the reality according to Scripture. The broadcast news, online news, print news, have…

Wow, my body is so-much-more relaxed when I’m looking to Jesus for direction/agenda/decisions on every tiny detail of my life and ministry. I’ve been praying for decades to be able to live and work out of communion with Jesus, and it’s been happening more than ever in my life lately. Wow. Especially when I’m driving…

Doing NOTHing on our own, trusting NOT our human-wisdom or the human-wisdom of others, because we’re disillusioned with human-wisdom. And, our eyes and thoughts are fixed on SovereignShepherdJesus, asking Him about everything, thanking Him about everything just as it is, and everyone just as we are, clueless-we-know-what’s-best, trusting that He DOES. Jesus-wisdom-reliance is the pearl…

whaddayado? CONFESS your unbelief in the total sovereign reign of Jesus over every detail of your life. Irritated with your boss, co-workers, job, yourself, spouse, kids, health, wealth, politicians, news media, where you live, how you live? CONFESS that Jesus and His imputed worthiness are NOT ENOUGH for you. THANK Him for your frustrating circumstances…

is following Jesus’ agenda, not Dave’s agenda. What does it look like when I follow Dave’s agenda? Hurried, worried, intense, stressed, competitive, critical-judgmental, circumstance-dependent for my joy and peace. Following Jesus’ agenda? Clueless-I-know-what’s-best, confident Jesus knows, curious/expectant to see what He does NEXT, in me, others, circumstances, THANKing Him for everything — especially the harrrd,…

need more hours in the day, you’re just like DAVE, with an agenda for every situation — an agenda rooted in my flesh’s confidence-it-knows-what’s-best. My flesh puts enormous pressure on me not to embarrass myself, not be late, NOT GET BEHIND in my work. Only INdependents have agendas, feel pressure, feel alone, are intense, hurried,…