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Of Secondary Importance

June 7, 2012 by Fritz

I’m asking God for one thing,
     only one thing:
To live with him in his house
     my whole life long.
I’ll contemplate his beauty;
     I’ll study at his feet.
— Psalm 27:4 The Message


I want nothing more from you than to enjoy your company. There will be time for you to labor in My vineyard but unless it’s done from love it won’t be sustainable.

I don’t need your acts of service (I, actually, have plenty who can serve).

I need, or rather, desire your heart.

Enjoy Me and seek to sit, like Mary, at My feet.

The service part comes and goes. It’s you I want.
— June 4, 2012

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The Most Misunderstood

June 7, 2012 by Fritz

God and Satan talk in the Bible and it looks like a giant chess game with Job’s family as the pawns. In the garden God calls to Adam, “Where are you?”, but doesn’t he already know? Joshua is told by God to leave no survivors; where is the love and mercy in that?! People are offended by these and other scriptures, sometimes wanting nothing to do with God because if it.

We expend so much effort to avoid being misunderstood but God, the most misunderstood one of all, spends none.

Why? He doesn’t say (go figure).

But I think we can learn two (2) things:

  1. We need to know and love him as he is and on his terms — not how we want him to be on our terms.

    2. Peter said it best when asked if he, too, would leave that day like the others who had misunderstood one of Christ’s teachings,

    “Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68b)

  2. We need to stop expending so much energy to avoid being misunderstood.

Do what you think Jesus wants you to do then let it go.

— fritz.

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Uncensored Praying

May 31, 2012 by Fritz

Mark D. Roberts

I often want to censor what flows from my heart because it’s so messy.

In times of fearful desperation, I’ve wanted to cry out to God, “Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?” But then I catch myself. Of course God isn’t sleeping, I reason. He doesn’t need to wake up. Besides, who am I to say such things to the Lord?

So I end up with some insipid confession of God’s care for me, rather than the fearful and frustrated but altogether genuine cry of my heart.1

The Psalmist prayed this way:

“Get up, God! Are you going to sleep all day?
         Wake up! Don’t you care what happens to us?
Why do you bury your face in the pillow?
         Why pretend things are just fine with us?
And here we are—flat on our faces in the dirt,
         held down with a boot on our necks.
Get up and come to our rescue.
         If you love us so much, Help us! – Psalm 44:23-26 (Message)

Uncensored prayer may not be polite — but at least it’s heart honest, and that’s appreciated more by the one who counts and gets better results.

— fritz
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1. Roberts, Mark D. (2010-06-18). No Holds Barred: Wrestling with God in Prayer (Kindle Locations 550-553). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

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