dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • If you had three wishes

    to change your circumstances, or the circumstances of those you love, what would they be? 1._______________ 2. _______________ 3. ______________ Now, suppose you don’t get your three wishes and circumstances stay the same? SO WHAT? It’s your human-wisdom and the human-wisdom of others convincing you what’s best for you and your loved ones. SO WHAT…

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  • Only a fool expects happiness

    to flow from human-wisdom.   A Christian who is wise in own eyes, leaning on own understanding, is to be pitied above all humans.  By contrast, the Christian with biblical wisdom expects happiness to flow from Jesus-dependency. And s/he’s not even sure what it will look like, but s/he trusts SovereignShepherdJesus to know, and deliver. Nobody…

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  • I am a racist.

    I secretly judge other humans, initially, by how they are dressed, how they act, talk, their race, etc.. I consider a minority who is middle class, an equal, and not threatening, if I encounter them in my middle-class environment. A minority who is poor that I encounter in a poor urban neighborhood, makes me nervous…

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  • Thank You, Jesus, for not giving me

    what my human-wisdom wants — easIER, but giving me what is BEST for me and the Kingdom. Whatever it takes, to get me from where I am, to where You’re taking me, that’s what I want more than anything else in this world. Thank You that suffering produces perseverance, then character, then hope/faith/dependency/sanity/humility. Thank You…

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  • I’m happiest when

    I feel entitled to NOTHing. No roof over my head, no family, no friends, no job, no savings, no freedoms, no cool-fast car, no good food to eat, no good sleep, no decent health, and then pitied — or worse, despised, by others. NOTHing. Like, living homeless under a bridge, on cardboard, dumpster diving for…

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  • When I’m bummed by my failure,

    I’m ALWAYS human-wisdom-dependent, NEVER Jesus-dependent. When I’m encouraged by my success, I’m ALWAYS human-wisdom-dependent, NEVER Jesus-dependent. A humble believer — a Jesus-dependent, is interested in his failure, but not bummed by it. LEARNS from failure. Benefits from failure. A proud believer — human-wisdom-dependent, is obsessively failure-avoidant. Unless extremely self-deceived. The Christian life is not about…

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  • How do I know when Jesus is

    Lord of my life — when I’m Jesus-dependent? For me, it’s when I THANK Him for everything in my life, just as it is right now, including the harrrrd — the things my human-wisdom HATES and wishes were different. Impossible to THANK Him for the harrrd with integrity, unless I really believe in His total…

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  • Eleven-minute confession by

    a refreshingly-honest pastor. This is good example of a chief confessor pointing Christians to Jesus, rather than a chief expert preaching the Gospel to Christians. The Christian life is not about our loving Jesus, but about Jesus loving us. Not about our performance/obedience, but His. We are not the deal. He is. Sorry, but I…

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  • When I’m not a happy camper,

    I’m ALWAYS focused on the waves of my circumstances, instead of Jesus. The secondary things in my life have become primary, and the PrimaryThing has become secondary. Whyzat? Human-wisdom-reliance — my human-wisdom and the human-wisdom of others, especially experts. I’ve been snookered into believing a lie — that my life is UP TO DAVE, so…

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  • The problem with self-awareness,

    is that the more you have of it, the less you’re able to handle the pressures of daily life, by yourself, without Jesus. So you’re better off living in denial of what’s going on inside, if you want to live like most Christians live — as INdependents, weight of the world on your shoulders, UP…

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