judgmental, competitive, addicted to feeling superior, and to feel alone in facing my challenges, while experiencing sovereignty-awareness.  Whyzat?  Because I’m not in charge of me, or others.  SovereignShepherdJesus is.  Easy to enjoy others and self, just as we are, and His genius plan for us all, when I’m sovereignty-aware.  Easy to thank Him for everything,…

my deepest core value, explaining more of who I am and why I do, than anything.  Constant stress/tension in my body, day and night, due to my hyper-vigilance.  All my life, this terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad way to live has felt so normal/natural that I’ve been unaware, until lately, of the terror that never leaves…

cluelessness-I-know-what’s-best — being curious and expectant to see what You do NEXT, in me, others, circumstances.  I LOVE when Your Spirit freshly convicts me of my independence  — my feeling alone with the challenges before me, so I’m freshly aware that I’m not MY problem, but Your problem.   Ahhh, thank You, Jesus, for the peace…

in my less-sane moments, when my flesh reigns supreme, and I want MORE than what I have in Jesus.  He and His imputed worthiness are UNsatisfying to me.  I wannabe BETTER than I am.  BETTER Christian.  BETTER evangelist.  BETTER faith.  BETTER dependency on Jesus.  BETTER at being gracious to everyone — inside my head, where…

but not every pacifist is a humble person.  No humble person ridicules, wants others to lose, gets in a fight, wages war, needs to feel superior, has a competitive spirit.  Every humble person enjoys others, just as they are, and himself, just as s/he is, not just externally, but also internally, where no one can…

is their atheistic perspective.  Nobody reports the news with a Jesus-centered perspective, or even a God-centered perspective.  This doesn’t bother followers of Jesus because we are so USED to looking at our daily lives from an atheistic perspective — UP TO ME.  And we’re so used to FUNCTIONING as atheists as we go through our…

is feeling alone, though I’m typically unaware of it.  Living as though Jesus is not totally sovereign over my life, so I NEED TO BE, so I’m NOT curious and expectant to see what He does NEXT, in me, others, circumstances, but feel like the challenges I face are UP TO DAVE, that I’m MY…

for my joy and peace, unless I’m wise in my own eyes, leaning on my own understanding, confident-I-know-what’s-best.  Only the Jesus-dependent — the clueless-I-know-what’s-best, experience the peace that passes understanding.  Life is unnecessarily intense/stressful for the confident-I-know-what’s-best addict, consumed with his/her own worthiness by judging others in order to compete with them, obsessing over human…

for such a time as this, to show us what it looks like to love enemies.  https://familyshare.com/28477/black-man-befriends-members-of-the-kkk-by-asking-them-one-simple-question —Dave McCarty, GospelFriendships To receive my Tuesday posts, email me, or subscribe to my blog: dumbsheepdave.com

his own and others’, but DumbSheepDave worships his ShepherdJesus.  Humans take some credit for powerful ministry, but only Jesus deserves any credit, glory, honor.  ShepherdDave is wowed by powerful ministry.  DumbSheepDave is wowed by his SovereignShepherdJesus.  ShepherdDave doesn’t experience abundant LIFE, but DumbSheepDave does, because DumbSheepDave is captivated by Jesus.  Jesus is everything, and Jesus…