Category: Our Weakness
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a lot of the time, because the world, flesh, devil want me feeling alone, that it’s up to me to make my life work, leaning on my own understanding, being wise in my own eyes, as I attempt to engineer happiness for myself and others, solve the problems before me, make decisions, captain my soul,…
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Others’ accomplishment. My accomplishment. I unwittingly worship/adore/revere that which wows me. I’m wowed by excellence in human endeavor. That is, when I’m ShepherdDave, leaning on my own understanding, wise in my own eyes, so I can captain my soul, master my fate. Flagrant independence. I’m not braggin, but confessin. Observing the excellence of others, strokes…
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Because humans were made for dependency, like dumb sheep, and we encounter enormous stress when we created-dependents try and function as independents: shepherds. Dumb sheep are protected from fear, frustration, discouragement, boredom, when we function as dumb sheep, looking to our Shepherd, curious and expectant to see what He will do next, rather than trying…
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Jack Miller used to say that the difference between what would happen normally, and what happens with an infusion of grace, that difference, is the glory of God. So if we believers are known by the watching world for being the proudest, most self-righteous, poorest lovers of those most different from ourselves, and then are…
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In other words, is He enough for me? Or when I run to him with a problem, do I use Him, to get my way: want Him to fix it according to my agenda? Or do I confess to Him, that He’s only enough for me, when He fixes my problems according to my agenda? …
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God’s problem, God’s job. Wow. I can’t tell you what a bombshell this has been for me. Maybe obvious to you, and I feel a bit silly for feeling so profoundly impacted by such an obvious statement, but over the past month, this has been changing my life, and I can only conclude that it’s…
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I’ve hardly ever experienced it. Intellectually, I know that I’m supposed to follow Jesus, because He is supposedly Lord of my life, but in my typical day, it’s all about my agenda, my will, and this causes me to be intense, driven, joyless and peaceless unless things momentarily go my way, but even then, I…
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is Jesus-dependency. Whatever it takes, DaddyJesusSpirit, to get me from Dave-dependency to Jesus-dependency, that’s what I want: I offer up to you my health, my ministry, my savings, my reputation: do with them whatever is best, for me and for Your Kingdom. I do not know what is best, though my flesh wants me to…
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When I’m not curious and expectant, to see what God will do next, in my circumstances, I’m living by flesh, not by faith: functioning as an independent/orphan/adultlike, wise in my own eyes, leaning on my own understanding, and my biggest need at that moment, is fresh conviction of the sin of independence/unbelief, so I can…
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I can never remember a time when I was discouraged, that I wasn’t also concerned about my own righteousness/performance/reputation/somebodiness: my passion to feel good about myself based on my performance. Same is true for every time I’ve been fearful, or frustrated/angry. My unhappiness, lack of joy/peace, always has to do with me and my performance,…
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