What we can experience only from deepening our trust

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What we can experience only from deepening our trust

“But My close friends, why, why don’t they call louder to Me from their heart’s depths?If only their belief were less like unbelief!If their hope were fixed upon My help . . . And if, in all simplicity their love loved Me more. I should be there looking after everything in their day, and when night fell, their eyes
would close again on My face.


Bossis, Gabrielle. He and I (Kindle Locations 2260-2262).
Pauline Books and Media. Kindle Edition.

It is interesting for any writer I guess, to have someone read something that they wrote, and the reader interpreting it ways that are unintended. I know that I do it with essays that I read from other writers, so I as well will often misunderstand their real intention. I have also learned that when I read from another author, in some way, their writing becomes mine, for I take it in, ponder it, agree or disagree, and then place it aside. Yet all writing, like all speech is, in reality, a seed that is planted in the heart of the reader, or the hearer and the effects on the unconscious are deeper than understood by many.

When I write about grace, the love of God, and my own experiences with my own struggles, failures, as well as deep healings, I can actually be attacked over what I have written. Sometimes the input given me about something I posted, even if strong, is spot on, but often it is based on the readers having to read whatever I write from the store of their own experiences, beliefs, as well as their misunderstanding of what my faith is to me, or even for that matter what it is all about. I know this to be true, because I do it, often unconsciously, when I read, or listen to someone else.

Sometimes I do wonder how strong my faith is. However, I have learned that in trusting God, and taking the next step, I do experience a deep movement in my soul that comes from ‘without’. Or should I say from something so deep, deeper than my own personal unconscious, that I sense a loving presence working with me, and for me, but in secret so to speak. This can’t be explained, but only experienced.

What does it mean to cry to God for help? Well, I believe that what it entails is to simply embrace the ‘moment’, no matter how bad, and make a conscious choice to root myself in the reality of the Lord who dwells in the ‘Tabernacle of my Heart’. I both fear, and so long for the love of God, and sometimes I do get a small taste, but only a small one. It is all I can handle.

In this world, we are called, or I am called, to love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself. This takes a bigger heart than I have. Yet the purely human heart of Jesus Christ encompasses all of humanity without distinction. So slowly I see that my heart is being transformed by God’s loving touch to my wounded, often skittish soul. So I love more deeply, hopefully, every day by allowing my heart, to be absorbed by the truly human heart of Jesus Christ. The more I grow into this reality, the more I understand how unloving I can be. When I fail to react or deal with a situation in a loving manner, I sense it more deeply. It does not lead me to despair, but to a deeper trust in God’s love for me. Which is one of the hardest parts of my faith to believe.

So I pray for my longing for God to deepen, but that can’t happen if my love for others does not. I want my thirst for God, to equal God’s thirst for each of us. That has a powerful effect on how I pray, and what I pray for. I do believe that Christians are here to show to the world the love of God, called ‘Agape’. Without deep prayer, and loving trust in God, along with a profound understanding of our own need for mercy, that is probably impossible. It is easier for me to judge others than to look into my own heart.—Br.MD
 

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Hi Brother Mark. I love the honesty of your posts and can sense the trust you have in the Father. Have you considered the trust that God wants to find in you toward Him? Trust that when He brings a situation your way that you will not act from your old nature but from your new? When He brings one of His own to us He wants to find more than love for Him there, He wants to find also an unfailing love for others so that His work may be carried out faithfully thru us. I know we all fail in this for the most part, especially in that aspect of ourselves where we judge others before the time. But can He trust us to not lean on our own understanding in our actions? That’s always been the big question for me and one that I know I fail at often. But I know that the more He can trust me to act according to His ways the more I’m confident that His will is being done, not so much for me but thru me. I hope that made sense. :) Have a blessed day!
 
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To expand on that thought I don’t mean that we should preach Jesus nonstop to everyone that we meet because for the most part we really are the only bible some people may ever read.

The ideal would be to set the mind toward whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Following that to act in accordance with love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

I know that sounds very cliche but it seems to me that’s the way that faithfulness to God can be carried out and how His trust in us can be accomplished.
 
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Good response, thank you. Yes, itis an ongoing journey. I fail, yet God gives me the grace to continue the journey. God trust in me, a good point, one I will ponder and pray over, thank you very much.
 
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Good response, thank you. Yes, itis an ongoing journey. I fail, yet God gives me the grace to continue the journey. God trust in me, a good point, one I will ponder and pray over, thank you very much.
Trust that when He brings a situation our way that we won't act from our old nature but from our new is what I think He wants and needs from us to further His own agenda in our lives and those around us. That may be what it means to be ready in season and out in one sense of the word.
 
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I learnt something new and interesting about the bow on the Messianic forum. While the arrows are considered a blessing when having a quiver full ( meaning many children) the bow relates to the one object that sends them in different directions.


Rainbow in Hebrew is the same word as the Archer’s Bow.

Genesis 9:16 “ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant (New Covenant of the Spirit of Life through Jesus Christ?) between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
Jeremiah 51:3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

“The arrow of the Lord's deliverance”….

2 Kings 13:15 15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. 16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. 17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them. 18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. 19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

Job 29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow H7198 was renewed in my hand.

Genesis 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel

2 Sa 1:18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

2 Kings 9:24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

1 Ch 1:40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, H7198 and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

2 Ch 17:17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow H7198 and shield two hundred thousand.
 
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