Musings with PWC

  Saint Teresa wrote:    “Solo Dios Basta, God alone is enough.” __________________________________________    Lord, forgive me.  I think I need more.  I think I need success (whatever that means?). My lists of needs tend to be related to my idols. What kind of idol do I worship? My life? My money? My ministry? My reputation? My well-being? My house? Well, you know, Lord, the list is as endless as there are people.   Solo Dios Basta! Oh Lord, this is where I want to live! This is where I want to be. Enough already!  All this chasing after mere temporary things.   Saint Teresa: Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Those who cling to God. Will lack nothing. Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. God alone is enough.   Solo Dios Basta! 

Allow Me to form you. Allow Me to shape you. Allow Me to take you in My hands and mould you for My glory and My purposes. I will put you through formative circumstances and situations.  They will hurt, sometimes.  They will bring joy, sometimes.  But they will always form when you surrender to My purposes. Isaiah 44:12 (NIV) 12 The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. The blacksmith forges it with the strength of his arm.  I forge you with the strength of My arm.  I love you too much to leave you the way you are.  You are destined to share My glory and presence for all eternity!  Accept, My beloved one, My forming!

  I am breathing into you, My breath  I am breathing into you, My breath  Stop self-creating. Stop self-initiating. Stop self-vindicating. Relax—breathe deeply of my ‘oxygen’. It’s My breath—Breathe deeply in—My life, My sustenance, My presence. Exhale your pains, plans, purposes and perspectives. Breathe in My desires, dimensions and determinations. Allow Me to breathe into you the Breath of Life! Imagine Me kneeling beside you, as I knelt beside the newly created and formed Adam. I knelt and breathed into Adam, the breath of life, and Adam became a living person.  (Genesis 2:7 (NLT) 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.) So, I kneel beside you that you might be “My” living person. Pulsating with My desires, dimensions and determinations. Are you ready? Exhale you. Inhale Me. I am breathing into you: Exhale pain. Inhale he...

  You must tune your spirit, your heart, your inner person to the frequency of Holy Spirit.            This is accomplished mainly by surrendering.  This surrendering is laying your own desires, wants, and wishes before the cross.   Remember Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”            Surrendering takes you to the other side of pain and discomfort. Jesus, “for the joy set before him,” endured and surrendered. You must learn to see that ‘other side’ and then recognize that the brid...

  Don’t sweat it!     Let’s talk sweat!   Ezekiel 44:17-18 (NIV) 17  “‘ When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen clothes; they must not wear any woolen garment while ministering at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple. 18 They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.”   Hmm.  This is interesting.   In the book of Ezekiel, the previous commands regarding priestly attire are re-emphasized.   (You can read about the original command in Ex 28,29). But noteworthy for us right now is—don’t sweat it!    In thinking about sweat, I am reminded of Adam and Eve’s goof and the result: Genesis 3:17-19 (NIV)  17 To Adam he said,  “ Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you,  ‘ You must not eat from it, ’ “ Cursed is the gr...

        May we agree on the following? 1.          Successful old people with proven track records are worth listening to. 2.         If they could offer two clear directions about life, they might really be worth listening to!   Enter our two famous old people with proven track records.  They are asked similar questions.   They are asked the proverbial, "What two things would you do differently?   Old famous person number one:  Billy Graham, “If you were to do things over again, would you do it differently? Yes, I would study more, I would pray more, travel less, and take fewer speaking engagements. I took too many of them in too many places around the world. If I had to do it over again, I would spend more time in meditation and prayer and just tell the Lord how much I love Him and adore Him.”    ( https://www.baptistpress.com/...