this is the one

this is the one who thinks endless thoughts about you.. endless, innumerable good thoughts. knows every hair on your head.. obsessively adores you and i.. this is HIM. this is OUR GOD.

Isaiah 40

2-17Who has scooped up the ocean
in his two hands,
or measured the sky between his thumb and little finger,
Who has put all the earth’s dirt in one of his baskets,
weighed each mountain and hill?
Who could ever have told God what to do
or taught him his business?
What expert would he have gone to for advice,
what school would he attend to learn justice?
What god do you suppose might have taught him what he knows,
showed him how things work?

so we worry… why? and we lack trust in God… why? and we bother to ask God, ‘why’… why? if we trust that He loves us.. we will trust everything else about His nature. please know He loves you tonight.

i’m talking to myself.

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where to begin...?

At the beginning, maybe? It’s been a gnarly week. There’s been loss. There’s been gain. Sadness & laughter. Stress & ease.

The underlying & overlying factor throughout it all though.. and throughout all of my life.. is God’s faithfulness. Ecclesiastes talks about how there are times for different occasions & emotions in our lives…….

ECC 3

¹ There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

^2-8 A right time for birth and another for death (don’t i know it),
A right time to plant and another to reap,
A right time to kill and another to heal,
A right time to destroy and another to construct,
A right time to cry and another to laugh,
A right time to lament and another to cheer,
A right time to make love and another to abstain,
A right time to embrace and another to part,
A right time to search and another to count your losses,
A right time to hold on and another to let go,
A right time to rip out and another to mend,
A right time to shut up and another to speak up,
A right time to love and another to hate,
A right time to wage war and another to make peace.

I love this statement a little further down::::: God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time. ((Hold onto this.. it is truth)).

Stuff… crap… disappointment… it’s going to happen in life. Crying, lamenting, letting go, hating, parting, counting losses, ripping… those are not words used at Disneyland!! Definitely not fun… but part of life. But that’s just it. Only a part.

God is essentially… good. And I trust Him. I know in every season I have the Faithful & True One looking after His Word.. to always look after me and those I love. He’s a good God.

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ISAIAH 58^4-12 MSG

The kind of fasting you do
won’t get your prayers off the ground.
Do you think this is the kind of fast day I’m after:
a day to show off humility?
To put on a pious long face
and parade around solemnly in black?
Do you call that fasting,
a fast day that I, God, would like?

“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:
to break the chains of injustice,
get rid of exploitation in the workplace,
free the oppressed,
cancel debts.
What I’m interested in seeing you do is:
sharing your food with the hungry,
inviting the homeless poor into your homes,
putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,
being available to your own families.
Do this and the lights will turn on,
and your lives will turn around at once.
Your righteousness will pave your way.
The God of glory will secure your passage.
Then when you pray, God will answer.
You’ll call out for help and I’ll say, ‘Here I am.’

A Full Life in the Emptiest of Places

“If you get rid of unfair practices,
quit blaming victims,
quit gossiping about other people’s sins,
If you are generous with the hungry
and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out,
Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness,
your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.
I will always show you where to go.
I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—
firm muscles, strong bones.
You’ll be like a well-watered garden,
a gurgling spring that never runs dry.
You’ll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew,
rebuild the foundations from out of your past.
You’ll be known as those who can fix anything,
restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate,
make the community livable again.

DANG

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