is Jesus’ world, compared to Dave’s world — where human accomplishment, performance, feeling superior to SOMEbody, or somebodies, is EVERYthing. Louis Armstrong lived in denial of how sick this world is, ruled by human-wisdom. And the organized Church is equally sick — maybe sicker, because It too is ruled by human-wisdom. We humans are all…

How can I tell which one I’m experiencing? In Dave’s world, my life is UP TO ME, and I have an agenda, and am easily irritated, and compete with EVERYone, and I judge everyone and everything. My joy and peace depend on my circumstances. But in Jesus’ world, I see Him behind everyone and everything,…

Cannot be improved one tiny bit, because they’ve been carefully crafted for you by SovereignShepherdJesus. Why doesn’t He give me easier, Dave? Because suffering produces perseverance, then character, then hope/faith/dependency, and there is NOTHing that comes close to comparing with Jesus-dependency. Biggest need you have in your life today, even though your human-wisdom would have…

but instead, delivers addiction — to more achievement. High achievers are highly addicted. Low achievers are ALSO highly addicted to achieving, but are disappointed, feel like failures. Low achievers frequently end up in hobbies where we can become specialist achievers, to feel good about ourselves. Or, develop critical-judgmental spirits toward others, as a strategy to…

in Proverbs. Biblical-wisdom and human-wisdom, and most of us assume there is only ONE kind of wisdom, so we get confused reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Proverbs 3:7 says, “Do not be wise in your own eyes.” Human-wisdom. Biblical-wisdom is believing I have no wisdom worth leaning on, but that Jesus DOES. Jesus-dependency. Biblical-wisdom is cluelessness-I-know-what’s-best,…

is that we become even-more addicted to trying to make things go our way. Human-wisdom-dependent, not Jesus-dependent. Our human-wisdom has us convinced that it knows what’s best for us, and we have grown to trust it. More than Jesus. Most of us live in denial of how-much more we trust our human-wisdom, than Jesus. Our…

is admitting we are powerless to change ourselves. Verrry radical message for Christians. Opposite of what we traditionally hear in Church — we have the Spirit, we can do ALL things through Christ, the Christian life is doable, obedience is possible, we can change ourselves, so get out there and do better, believe better. Striving…

where no one else can see how self-absorbed we are, working hard to project humility and graciousness — outer goodness, so we’ll appear good to others, AND to ourselves. Self-deceived, not self-aware. We’re all failures at following Jesus, at being humble, gracious lovers of others on the INside, especially our enemies — humans with very-different…

is my forte. I love solving easy problems. Thing is, the tough/complicated problems cause me to obsess over solutions, which brings unnecessary stress into my day. Pride, not humility. INdependence, not DEpendence. Human-wisdom-dependency, not Jesus-dependency. My life is so-delightfully easy when I function as a Jesus-dependent, curious and expectant to see what Jesus does NEXT,…

for us Christians. Pride, not humility. We dowannabe faith-wimps. Dowanna FAIL at trusting Jesus for the harrrd, the scary, the uncertain. But we all struggle to believe, to rest, to be content with His genius plan — especially the harrrd. The Christian life is not about OUR performance, but Jesus’ performance. Jesus came for the…