dumb sheep dave

Promoting Jesus Dependency

  • I stopped preaching the Gospel to myself,

    because I’ve done it for so many years, that I no longer struggle to believe Jesus loves me, just as I am.   It was so helpful in building a wide, deep, foundation of grace in my life, to keep me from being so introspection-avoidant – fearful of looking inside to see my motives for all…

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  • My flesh HATES being

    clueless, and LOVES feeling confident.  HATES being childlike, and LOVES feeling adultlike.  Being clueless is so humiliating, so lowly, so unEvangelical, so unAmerican.  And being confident is so unlike Jesus, who did NOTHing on His own, but only what His Father told Him to do.  Jesus, the first dependent human since The Fall.  And the…

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  • What do I hate about ShepherdDave?

    I hate that he’s so critical-judgmental of others, so competitive that he’s always searching for weaknesses in others so he feels better about himself.  I hate that ShepherdDave is shameless in people-watching so he can observe the bad taste of others, or their homeliness, or peculiarities, so he feels superior.  I hate that he’s always…

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  • Why are we a deeply-divided nation politically?

    No humility.  Humility is required for dialog, compromise.  Pride is clear-sighted about the weakness/sin of the opposition, but blind to my own weakness/sin.  Pride fuels war, ISIS, superpower status.  While pride ridicules the opposition, humility respects the opposition, listens to the opposition, attempts to understand them, find common ground. Wonderful opportunity for Christians to be…

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  • Why do I want to be more Gospel-centered,

    more others-centered, less self-absorbed?  Why do I want to believe better, follow Jesus better, love better?  Why do I want to be more humble, less proud, less defensive?  Why do I want to be less critical/judgmental of others, less competitive, more gracious to others?   Why do I want to be more fruitful with the lost? …

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  • Thank You for Your genius plan

    for my life, that includes lotsa suffering, that I might be grown more self-aware and self-accepting, so I might be grown more Jesus-dependent/humble.  Thank You for the many ways I’ve been self-deceived as a Christian leader about my sin/idolatry, imagining myself to be qualified to lead because I’ve appeared to have my act together, to…

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  • The problem with democracy

    for a deeply-divided land, deeply-divided people, is that the purpose of elections is to force MY morality on the opposition.   I’d much rather have a benevolent dictator than what we have.  There is no sense of compromise in our land.  Only self-righteousness.  Clear-sighted about the weaknesses of the opposition, blind to my own weaknesses.  No…

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  • When I wannabe a better believer,

    that sounds noble, humble.  But it’s pride, not humility.  Self-contempt, not self-acceptance.   Jesus is enough for me when I’ma humble believer who fails, but when I’ma proud believer who fails, Jesus is NOT enough – I wannabe better.  Whyzat?  So I can feel GOOD about myself, instead of – less than.  I wannabe better than…

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  • What’s MY responsibility?

    So, if the biggest need I have every day is to believe in the sovereignty of Jesus over the details/circumstances of my day, because, typically, it feels like DAVE is sovereign, like my day is up to ME, or oughtabe, and I can’t seem to graduate from needing to be reminded that I am not…

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  • I need to hear about the sovereignty

    of DaddyJesusSpirit every day, all day long, or I slip into believing the Christian life is up to ME, and then I’m easily overwhelmed.  The doctrine of the sovereignty of DaddyJesusSpirit is balm to my troubled soul, unless I’m feeling great, feeling confident.  But.  I frequently feel lousy physiologically, which always means I’m unconfident, easily…

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