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“And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.” (Hos 2:18-20 ESV)
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I would have never imagined that seeing myself at the worst, incapable of anything which is good and able to commit EVERY sin if put in the ‘proper’ circumstances would be the entering wedge to spiritual freedom in the kingdom of God. Actually, as soon as we stop trying to appear, even if only a wee little bit better than we really are in our old and fallen nature, God comes closer and closer in order to share HIS heart and mind with us. I believe we need to first fully recognize in what kind of prison we have lived for all our life and to despair of our inability to set ourselves free in any way. We need to be so fed up with our old ways of thinking and behaving that we more and more cry out to God to give us a new heart and the mind of Christ. We must knock on heaven’s door like the persistent widow as described here.
1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Lk 18:1-8 ESV)
What I realized lately was that we would never be able to sin if we always turned right away to God in our minds whenever a temptation comes at us. However, Satan who is pretty clever gives us thoughts like these. “God will never understand what you are going through; you should have already overcome THIS by now!” Or “You should not think THESE thoughts since they are not godly!” Or “What?? You really WANT to sin? Shame on you!!!” and so on… Yet didn’t Jesus tell his sleepy disciples in the garden of Gethsemane to always pray so that they would NOT fall into temptation? Unfortunately, our old self has the fatal tendency to believe that our natural self-control would be enough regarding divine matters. But this is not true! We really need the Holy Spirit’s power if we want to be overcomers IN Christ against this unseen realm of darkness that constantly fights against us IF we want to do God’s will by following His guidance. Therefore, our old self-salvation projects won’t do any more when we are confronted on a daily basis with our enemy’s evil and cunning devices which are anything but easy to figure out.
In order to dig deeper into the darkness of our inner man, I offer you now another devotional by T. Austin Sparks.
August 6
Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27)
What does this mean? Not that I come before God saying, “I have had pure motives; I have been very honest, earnest and conscientious, and my intentions have all been of the best.” Let us stop talking nonsense. It is utter folly to talk like that. We do not know ourselves. Only God knows the truth about us, and none of that finds a place with Him or counts with Him for a moment. The point is, have I recognized that the Cross of the Lord Jesus was the smashing and ending of me, good and bad, so that I am not holding up before the Lord anything? I am as capable of the worst as any being in God’s creation is. For anybody to take the attitude that they are not capable of the worst is an attitude of the deepest deception. We do not know the power in our beings until we are put to it. If we have never committed the worst, it is because we have never been put to it in the mercy of God, but it is all there. The Lord puts His finger upon it in principle when He says, “He that hates his brother is a murderer.” It is the same spirit. You have only to extend that, provoke that anger enough, put that nature into certain circumstances, and you will discover that you are capable of things of which you would have stood in utmost horror at one time.
You and I have got to come down before God and admit that we are capable of the worst, not standing on the ground of our right. The only right one is Christ from God’s standpoint. The only safe one is Christ, and therefore the only one who stands in God’s eyes is Christ, and it is as you and I, in all the brokenness, frailty, conscious weakness and humility of our own beings, by faith cling to Christ that we shall find the way out, the deliverance, the salvation. We must look behind God’s words to see bigger things than words on the surface indicate. “To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at My word.” That statement embodies all that we are saying. To what one will He look? To the one who never says, “I am right!” but to the one who says, “I may be as wrong as ever a man or woman was wrong, there is nothing of which I am not capable; my only ground is Christ; so help me God, Christ is my ground!” To stand on Christ is to stand always in the consciousness and recognition that this other ground, ourselves at any point, is dangerous ground. He is so Other, and there is the great divide, there is no overlapping. Between Christ and us there is a gaping chasm. God never sees that bridged, but thank God He will put Christ into us by the Holy Spirit, and while the two will ever remain apart, the old creation will go one day and that which is of Christ, as wrought into us, will abide.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Church of the Firstborn – Chapter 1
“I would have never imagined that seeing myself at the worst, incapable of anything which is good and able to commit EVERY sin if put in the ‘proper’ circumstances would be the entering wedge to spiritual freedom in the kingdom of God.”
Ahhh, how lovely. Me too! That is so freeing. I spent many years trying to be “good enough,” but I really didn’t meet the Lord fully until I just threw in the towel and realized that I did need a Savior. It’s wonderful, but it was also a surprise. The world has a way of telling us we must be worthy and yet Christ is really to be found in letting go and admitting we can’t do it ourselves at all.
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I am glad I am not alone, Gabrielle. 🙂 I recall having found myself in similar places before, even years ago, and I would always think, “That was it!” But eventually I needed to admit that there were numerous layers still inside that needed to be removed, one after the other, until I could dig deeper and deeper into my own darkness. It’s a journey, indeed.
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Wow Sue such a beautiful article and comments–Let me join in with you girls and simply say AMEN !–I remember that devotion from August 6 because that was my birthday and boy Sparks was right on target!–and so are you girls!
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Oh, Happy Birthday belatedly, dear Ken! It appears to me that Gabrielle’s BD and yours lie pretty close together since hers was a few days ago too. Thanks a bunch for your encouraging words!
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Ditto, Ken! Happy birthday! I hope it went well, my friend. My wife and I celebrated our 50th anniversary on August 5th and had the whole family here with us. It was a great time of kindness and love together.
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Norman Grubb once said something that should set us all free if we believe it,
“You CAN’T live the Christian life.”
“Christ IS the Life!”
And finally and most importantly he said, “Christ is in you and HE will live the life.”
Note, he did not say that Christ in you will HELP YOU live the life. NO, he said,
“CHRIST IN YOU… WILL LIVE THE LIFE.”
I can tell you that there is no good thing in me and unless He who is righteousness is my life there will be no Christian life in me. Or as Paul put it, “Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery… which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col 1:26-27, KJ2000)
Thanks for sharing this, Susanne. ⭐
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You are very welcome, dear Michael. What you shared by Norman Grubb was excellent, my brother! ⭐ And the Scripture fits perfectly too!! That was indeed the very thing He has shown me lately… my utter inability to even only WANT to do His will in my flesh. I felt despair until Jesus pulled me to the spiritual level and gave me His life for my death. It was not funny but a freeing experience. We truly must walk in the Spirit, always!!!
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Hi Sis,
I was blessed by this blog entry and by brother Michael’s post you are replying to. 🙂 I love both of your blogs because firstly, it seems like you only post when you feel led to post. AMEN! Secondly, you two seem to be going (hmmm, or should I say growing) through the wilderness and for those of us who are doing the same, it’s nice to have a place to come to for encouragement, even if it’s only to remind ourselves that we aren’t alone in this wilderness. 🙂 Thirdly though, I continue to watch our Abba work in your life (and Michael’s) to bring you both to the point that all that matters is Christ/Truth IN us doing His Father’s will. This has always been the true path. Even in the OT we find Moses saying something similar:
Numbers 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.
In other words, it’s the Lord doing all these things and NOT me! Here we have our Lord Jesus Himself, as Head of the Body, saying the same thing only in NT fulfillment:
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am IN the Father, and the Father IN Me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth IN Me, HE DOETH the works.
How can we do good works if we’re dead? It’s all about Christ IN us, and you two are following hard after Him like no other blogger I’ve seen online. I praise our Abba for you two AND for all our Family members who post replies at your blogs. God bless you.
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Dear Renee,
Thank you very much for spiritual confirmation regarding the WHEN of our writings and about the WHAT God has been doing in our lives. Your words and the Scriptures you shared have been a great encouragement for me. I need to admit that I had to grin as I read, “…you two are following hard after Him like no other blogger I’ve seen online.” That is a big compliment, indeed, and the only reason I know that could be the case is that God pulled us a bit closer and plunged us a bit deeper into this (very sour and painful) acid bath of purification. As for me, I can say that my two dark nights of the soul (the first one regarding the senses and the second regarding the spirit, cf. John of the Cross) were anything but fun, particularly the last one. But coming more and more out of the dark night of the spirit, I started to realize that it is time to finally rest and to let Him do everything in me – whatever horrible things I might still detect inside me. He is Lord and what is impossible with man is possible with God.
May God bless you immensely in the days ahead, Renee! Thanks again for your edifying contribution on here, dear sister.
Love ❤
Susanne
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Susanne, You wrote, “That was indeed the very thing He has shown me lately… my utter inability to even only WANT to do His will in my flesh. I felt despair until Jesus pulled me to the spiritual level and gave me His life for my death.”
I read something this morning on my TAS devotional that I think we can both relate to in these ups and downs we have been experiencing in Christ…
“This flesh loves to sport itself in Christian work, and tells us that if we are going to be dependent upon the Lord we are going to have an anxious time. But a life of dependence upon God can be a life of continual romance. It is there that we make discoveries which are a constant wonder.
“You may be nearly dead one minute and in the next the Lord gives you something to do and you are very much alive, dependent upon Him for every breath you breathe. But thus you come to know the Lord. Then after that experience you are just as helpless and dead again for a while, but you remember that the Lord did something. Then He does it again; and so life becomes a romance; yet no one would ever guess you were depending on the Lord for your very breath. It is a very blessed thing to know the Lord is doing it, when you could not do it at all; it is, humanly, naturally, impossible, but the Lord is doing it!”
Thus is our divine romance with Jesus, my dear sister. ❤
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Indeed, TAS nailed it, Michael, once again! Very timely for me at that since I cannot count how often I have had these death and life experiences lately. Just today…. FEEEW!!! A lot of them! I do hope that by more and more discovering His grace in all things that happen to me that I will be more inclined to not fight my weaknesses any longer in the days ahead, but to simply watch this dark abyss inside me being enlightened and eventually being filled with His light instead. That also reminds me of one of my favorite Scriptures.
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” (Is 30:15 ESV)
It seems so untypical for TAS to call our walk with Jesus a “romance”. Actually, I am amazed at his wording. But nonetheless, he is right, my brother. Without divine love nothing would really make sense and we had no eternal perspective, either.
Your sister in this divine romance, ❤
Susanne
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Thank you Susanne. I have never known a person who is gone through so many life changes at the hand of God in such a short time as you! I have learned so much about his romance just by watching how he changes your heart through is working. Truly he is a lover of our souls. ❤️
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You are very welcome, Michael. I have never known such a person, either, my brother, and God knows how often I complained about this acceleration path I have been on for many years now. But you are right, apart from the pain, it is His (also romantic and more…) love that convinced me to go on and on, despite all adversities. Yup, He is THE LOVER of our souls. ❤
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Dear Renee,
I was truly blessed by your comments on here. Susanne and I have embraced the way of the cross in our lives and both of us know the deep workings of the dark night of the soul and spirit. We are no longer our own persons and every time that old self rises up in us we feel His displeasure rather abruptly.
It is hard to get used to the surge of His anointing for a day or two and then the flat line existence when He withdraws. Like T.A. Sparks pointed out (quoted above: https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/only-honesty-before-god-will-set-us-free/#comment-14811), it is a divine romance in which He courts us. It reminds me of the Song of Songs where the Shulamite woman is in love with her man only to be stirred up by His love and then he leaves! We search all over for Him. We read, we pray, we seek the comfort of others as she did but nothing will satisfy our love for Him until He returns. Like Jesus said to his brothers and sisters, “Your time is always, but my time is not yet come.”
So we wait to hear His voice before we write. Some of these pauses are so long that it makes us wonder if He is ever coming back and if our blogging days are over. The real test is, “Are we in love with the work of the Lord, or with the Lord of the work?”
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Mmmhhh… great comment and description of our life with Him, Michael. Thank you! 🙂
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Greetings Bro,
I love the true Gospel. It’s such incredible GOOD NEWS for those of us who know what we are apart from Christ and are more than grateful to be given the opportunity to die IN Him so that He IN us can reign supreme 24/7. Thank You, Abba. Not Christ with us, not another religion but Christ IN us. So simple that a little child can joyfully enter in and yet so profound that, for the most part, Christ IN us still seems to be a “mystery” to most of Christianity, sigh.
Like you and others, I’ve been going through the wilderness for a long time. I understand the dryness spiritually. It breaks my heart, yet it is most necessary. “Christ IN us,” indeed, but how much of us does He have? The problem isn’t on His side but ours. So, it seems to me that our Abba is helping us to “see our death IN Christ Jesus” by allowing us to become weaker during this time of wilderness Christian life. What we all desire is for Christ Jesus to reign IN us freely, yet the Spirit of Holiness told us through brother Paul that it is when we are weak that He is strong. If we really think about that concept it is so opposite of all that this world system admires or demands. We’re raised to be the best, do good works, advance to the top, etc. The prevailing attitude of “Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it,” is so hard to let go off. It usually takes death to do that or a really “dark night” like brother Nee talks about.
Many of us are feeling so empty, so beat up, so….weak, at this time. I praise our Abba for His mercy. The “glorious Church” is the one, imho, who has finally allowed the Lord to show them the way of the Cross, which is we died and now He reigns IN us, continuing to do Abba’s will just as He did when He was here around 2,000 years ago. The Lord showed me a neat little verse some time ago that really brought a lot of this home to me.
Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants, WHEN He seeth that THEIR POWER is gone, and there is none shut up or left. (See also Ps 135:14).
I’ll close here with brother Matthew Henry’s commentary on this verse. May the Holy Spirit graciously open our eyes to all that it says as we keep “Christ IN us” in mind:
“The Lord shall judge His people, that is, judge FOR them against their enemies, plead their cause, and BREAK THE YOKE OF OPPRESSION UNDER WHICH THEY HAD LONG GROANED, repenting Himself for His servants; not changing His mind, but changing His way, and fighting FOR them, as He had fought against them, when He sees that THEIR power is gone. This plainly points at the Deliverances God wrought for Israel by the judges out of the hands of those to whom He had sold them for their sins, see Jdg. 2:11-18, and how His Soul was grieved for the misery of Israel, Jdg. 10:16, and this when they were reduced to the last extremity.
GOD HELPED THEM WHEN THEY COULD NOT HELP THEMSELVES; for there was none shut up or left; that is, none that dwelt either in cities or walled towns, in which they were shut up, nor any that dwelt in scattered houses in the country, in which they were left at a distance from neighbors. Note, GOD’S TIME TO APPEAR FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF HIS PEOPLE IS WHEN THINGS ARE AT THE WORST WITH THEM. God TRIES HIS PEOPLE’S FAITH, and STIRS UP PRAYER, by letting things go to the worst, and THEN MAGNIFIES HIS OWN POWER, and fills the faces of his enemies with shame and the hearts of His people with so much the GREATER JOY, by rescuing them out of extremity as brands out of the burning.”
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Renee,
I think I can sum up what you wrote above by quoting God who foretold the nature of the New Covenant as He spoke through Jeremiah saying,
“Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; my covenant which they broke, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (Jer 31:31-34, KJ2000)
Notice how God has left nothing for us to do, but yield to Him as He does the work of making us His NEW Creation. Bless you, dear sister! ⭐
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Hey friend, beautiful picture! Have you taken up photography lately? Echo your sharing. The battle in my mind is way more fierce than the battle in my act. More and more I realize God’s wisdom asking us “to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ” — when I can come to Him just as I am, with nothing to prove and nothing to lose — that is the most freeing — the soil fertile for intimacy to grow. Keep writing, sis!
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Hi Joanna! Great to hear from you once again! 🙂 Actually, I found this ring on one of my rainy prayer walks this year in the mud (!) and felt it was a promise from God. I put the ring in a higher place as you can see it in the picture so that the one who probably missed the ring might be able to find it. Thanks for the compliment regarding the picture! You are so right… the battle in the mind has been the main battle for me too.
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Susanne, for me, finding a ring like that out on a public pathway would have been a test for my flesh. I would have wanted to keep it or at least take it and put a note there on a branch or post that would said how to reach me if the person came back to find it, then have them describe it before they could claim it. I tend to like to “salvage” things I find. Obviously, God has to do a deeper work of the cross in me about my attachment to the things of this world. For Jesus it was enough to have only one change of close and no permanent dwelling to live in. He truly traveled light so He could follow the voice of the Father with nothing holding Him back.
Thanks for being you in Christ, dear Susanne. You are an inspiration and a blessing. ❤
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I so appreciate your honesty, my dear brother. You have been an inspiration to me all along. You are a treasure, Michael. ❤ In fact, it is always good to know that God is not yet through with us because it is a sign we know His Spirit in us. This applies to me also.
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Thank you for ” Only honesty before God will set us free”.
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You are so welcome, dear Pat. ⛱😇😎
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Hi Susanne,
You have written a good word. For some reason, it seemed to mesh with this other blog post, which I wanted to share with you: https://thelasthiker.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/you-cant-improve-on-perfection/
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I will be honest with you, dear Louise. I read the blog article you linked to and there are some points on which I basically agree. What I missed there was the hint that tells us that even faith and the desire to not sin anymore must come from God. We cannot really prove our salvation without having been redeemed from our old nature. I do agree, though, that it is a (long) process…
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Paul made it clear that even saving faith comes from Christ and is not something we can conjure up ourselves.
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” (Gal 2:16, KJ2000)
We are justified by the FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST and that faith is imparted unto us by God so that we might be…
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…” (Heb 12:2, KJV)
“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Thess 2:13-14, KJV)
Oh, what a great salvation we have IN Christ by the choosing of God!
“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.” (Rom 3:27, KJ2000)
Thanks for sharing these things, Susanne and Louise.
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Amen! Excellent, Michael! ⭐
You are very welcome as well the sharing, my brother.
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I have always liked the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18: 9-14). You will remember that the tax collector considered himself unworthy, but was the more pleasing to God.
I must add that Michael’s comments always remind me of well reasoned legal briefs. The two of you provide a spiritual education!
Much love,
A. ❤
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Mmmmhhh….. 🙂
Thanks a lot for your encouraging and uplifting words, dear Anna! ❤
The comparison between the Pharisee and the Tax Collector is a great example to illustrate what Michael and I have been talking about. Thank you for chiming in and for perfecting the picture! ⭐
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Anna, thank you for your edifying comment. Yes, Susanne and I have noticed how God often gives us each a part of the puzzle and as we prayerfully share our piece with the other we often see how they fit together. The unity of the Spirit in Christ is a most wonderful thing to experience and we have recently been seeing how walking in the light in transparency with one another is a very important part of having true unity IN Christ as well as experiencing the revelation of the Spirit. We must walk in truth together if we are to see HIS Truth manifest among us.
“Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].” (Jas 5:16, AMP)
This verse seems to be necessary if the following verse is to work…
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.” (1John 1:5-7, KJ2000)
The Christianity I have experienced in the churches rarely knows what it means to worship God in Spirit and in truth, but what a blessing it is when we dare to embrace and seek the truth with one another and truly walk in His all revealing light. But this can only be experienced between two hearts that have been broken and crucified IN Christ.
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Thank you Susanne for a couple of things. First for this post and realizing lately I have been crying out to God to move me forward. And to be honest before Him with all my shortcomings, and to seek help from Him to deliver me.
The second thing it seems as though you sought me out by liking a post on yet another blog of mine in which that blog site has been dormant. I felt like you were reaching out to me. I don’t know but I was crying a little. I feel so alone.
And first of all congratulations on 50 years of marriage Michael. And when I read your post in which is also your last comment on this page which is this…
The Christianity I [original: most of us] have experienced in the churches rarely knows what it means to worship God in Spirit and in truth, but what a blessing it is when we dare to embrace and seek the truth with one another and truly walk in His all revealing light. But this can only be experienced between two hearts that have been broken and crucified IN Christ. [https://awildernessvoice.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/unity-in-christs-lightcoming-into-full-stature/]. I keep hoping to find that one who will walk along side me.
Right now I feel stuck. I pray that it is only temporary. So much stuff going on that I can’t tell if it is true or false and I just want to run away from it all. Like the Mandela effect. I have to admit that it had me reading the bible more often but that group is starting to bring me down with all this other stuff that I could care less about. Then was invited to another group which man, stuff I had already learned about several years ago and yet getting enmeshed in it all again. Horrible things. I just want to take a break from knowing all this. Does it really matter if this earth is flat or round? Or that CERN is doing a number on changing our realities?
I have no friends around here. I want nothing to do with small talk. I have even said in my mind I wish I was ignorant of all this crazy stuff. I do not want to be deceived.
But Susanne? Correct me if I am wrong? Were you just now thinking of me about an hour ago? I appreciate what you did with the ring. I once worked at a retail closed to the public diamond store in Tampa many years ago. I was sweeping this workroom where the ment there would resize rings and diamonds and what have you. Well as I swept the room I saw a good sized diamond. Well my conscience would not allow me to say finders keepers losers weepers. I gave the diamond to one of the work guys and in turn the lady who was responsible for that diamond for another customer of hers, was told that I found the diamond. She was ever so grateful. That was reward enough for me.
Sorry this was long. I love you all. Keep me in your prayers.
Love, Stacey
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I am sorry you feel so alone and confused at times, dear Stacey. 😦 It seems this group was not that good for you…? Indeed, I checked out your gravatar, wanting to know whether you had published a new article and since I found nothing, I gave you a like on the post from 2014 as you rightly saw. 😉 You are in my prayers, dear sister. ❤
Love to you, too,
Susanne
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Dear Stacey,
I understand about not wanting to know all the stuff which is supposed to be going on in the world. For me, the best thing to know is that Jesus died for my sins according to the scripture, that he was buried, and that he rose again according to the scripture. What is going on in the world is, at best, a distraction. God is in charge, and he knows what we need. Rest in Christ, my sister.
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Thank you! I appreciate that very much. I finally made a decision to leave that group last night. I don’t need to be walking around paranoid. LOL God is in charge. I can’t change what is going on. My focus should be on Christ alone. Keeping it simple, Dimple. A major distraction indeed. Read my bible, daily TAS, and a few blogs should be good enough for me and allow the Holy Spirit to guide me. Everything else is disgusting and disturbs my spirit. Of course I do not want to be ignorant of Satan’s devices, but I don’t need all this other garbage.
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Hahahaha… XD
“Keeping it simple, Dimple!!!”
That was a great rhyme, Stacey. You are a hoot! I keep laughing about this!! 😀
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Thank you, Stacey. You are in my prayers, dear sister.
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I know right? LOL I thought it was clever as well. It just flowed from me.
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I recognized God’s humor in this immediately! 😉
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Hi Susanne Sis, I’m not a ‘wordpress’ member (I don’t want a website, eeek & yikes) so I can’t “Like” replies, but I just wanted to thank you for your reply to my post. I prayed over that post, trusting Abba to encourage you (and Michael too) to keep on posting as the Spirit Leads. I’ve been housebound for many years and am only now beginning to come out of my dark night. For Family members like me, your blog and Michael’s mean so much to us since we don’t go anywhere.
God bless you dear Sis. This is indeed a great Romance with our great One-IN-Three. {{hugs}}
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Hi Renee,
Actually, I refused to launch a blog for a long time until Michael and another sister wondered about my many scattered comments on the internet. Michael suggested to gather them up on an own blog somehow. And with God’s leading, that is how it began. In the beginning I loved to write and wrote a lot. But the deeper the dark night was, the less I was able to publish. So, I do not know what might happen in the days ahead regarding this blog and my dormant poetry blog where Michael and I posted a joint poem ‘loooong ago’ 😉 (if you like, see https://susanneschuberth.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/his-secret-home/). Thanks again for encouragement, my sister.
Every blessing and hugs to you, too,
Susanne
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