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The Secret Fundament of Being Useful for God

23 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Building up the Body of Christ, Discerning the Spirits, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Fellowship with God, God calls, God's Love, God's Voice, Growing in Christ, Holy Spirit, Humility, Living in the Presence of God, Prayer, Revelation, Self-knowledge, Sitting at His Feet, Spirit vs. Flesh, Submission to God, The Cross, Waiting on God, wilderness

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Roger T. Forster, whose article “Making History with God” I found in T. Austin Sparks’ library online, would write,

“God is writing history, but He is drawing men into fellowship with Himself as He does so, making them the occasion for a chapter in His book of the story of humanity. There is a chapter for Noah, a chapter for Abraham, a chapter for Moses and many others, and a chapter for you and me. He calls us to share in His great declaration, ‘I am bringing to pass what I am bringing to pass’, encouraging us to be like Moses, a hole in the ground filled with His living water, or a common bush, aflame with the unquenchable fire of His love, so that He can use us in His great movement of liberation.”

https://www.austin-sparks.net/mags/ttm01-5.html

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When the horizon opens up…

04 Friday Sep 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Being Set Free, Christian Living, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Entering His Rest, Judgment, Light and Darkness, My Spiritual Diary, Other Religious Writings, Psychology, Relax and Chill Out, Self-knowledge

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Tulip Flowers Field (Wallpaper)

Tulip Flower Field (Wallpaper)

The more we dare to freely admit before God how our real heart condition is and who we really are, the more we will be able to let other people into our hearts as well. The more we understand that we are truly loved without strings attached, the more we will long to show others how much they are loved too.

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Mercy Triumphs over Judgment

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Agape, Being Born Again, Discerning the Spirits, Encouragement, Freedom from the Law, God's Love, Healing, Holy Spirit, Judgment, Revelation, Self-knowledge, Worship in Spirit and Truth

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This is not the fountain of Living Water, it is just Lily's favorite "water bowl" on the balconies ;-) (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

This is not the Fountain of Living Water, it is just Lily’s favorite “water bowl” on the balconies  😉
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

It is not ours to judge anyone, even though everything might tell against them. We can merely see how people look like, what they do and how they behave. And if they talk a lot, we will come to know a certain part of their hearts too. However, it is God alone who knows the depths of our hearts, the WHY of what we did and, maybe, still do. Therefore, we must be cautious to not quickly say, “Oh, I know, I know, been there, done that, such kind of persons I have come to know so often!”

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Life is a Triggery Business

09 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Abiding IN Christ, Being Set Free, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Healing, Holy Spirit, New Self, Old Self, Psychology, Relax and Chill Out, Self-knowledge, Walking in the Spirit

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What Makes our Life so Difficult at Times (Picture taken from http://www.meltdownmentor.com/v6/index.php/meltdown-or-shutdown/triggers)

What Makes Our Life So Difficult At Times
(Picture taken from http://www.meltdownmentor.com/v6/index.php/meltdown-or-shutdown/triggers)

To start off with, I know that life is a tricky business, too, but here I really meant triggery in the following sense. Take for instance a few little children playing in the sandpit. They are not related and are basically happy to play together. You are sitting on a bench, enjoying the first warming sunrays of springtime and you are watching those kids gladly until something unexpected happens. Right out of the blue you might hear exclamations like,

“This is MY shovel!! Give it back to MEEEE!!!!!” (You can easily imagine the picture you can see now… 😉 ) or,

“I don’t want to be your friend!!!” (Because “I hate red hair!”… “Your nose is too huge!”… “Your parents are silly!” – whatever the accusation)

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The old self cannot really love…

05 Monday Jan 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Dying to Self, Encouragement, God's Love, Healing, Humor, Knowing God, Psychology, Self-knowledge

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Well... Which Self to Choose? ;-)  (Cartoon taken from http://mylifeintupperware.blogspot.de/2012/04/feeding-right-dog.html)

Well… Which Self to Choose? 😉
(Cartoon taken from http://mylifeintupperware.blogspot.de/2012/04/feeding-right-dog.html)

“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Mt 7:11 ESV)

Boy, who would have thought that our Old Adam and Eve are evil persons who can do good things, to be sure, yet cannot truly love due to their immanent wretchedness? But wait…can’t they love somehow, though? We know from our own experience that every human being can fall in love which is a wonderful thing, however, it’s still selfish love. Since as soon as the beloved person rejects the one who still looks through rose-colored glasses, love as it was before is over. And that we love our children is normal, too, isn’t it? Even if they reject us one day.

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HE knows I’m bad and I know it, too (wink wink)

03 Saturday Jan 2015

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Being Set Free, Dying to Self, Encouragement, Humor, Inspiration, Knowing God, My Spiritual Diary, New Self, Relax and Chill Out, Self-knowledge, Suffering and Joy

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Nothing But Snowflakes... (Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Nothing But Snowflakes…
(Photo by Susanne Schuberth)

Yes, it’s no coincidence that my headline might remind you, not only a bit, of Michael Jackson’s song “Bad”.

Meanwhile I really KNOW that our God is funny despite all the pain His presence has caused my old self which dies hard (oh – another allusion).  😉 The pain of being deeper and deeper exposed in His light as a true “nothingness” in God’s and in my own eyes (cf. Romans 7), finally means the beginning of real freedom. The freedom to admit every bad thought at once – and you might be surprised, but there are ONLY bad thoughts springing from the old self. The freedom I experience today is so different from anything I knew before that I thought I should share it with you.

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The Living Flame Of Love

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Christian Mystics, Church, Ecstasy, Eternal Life, God's Love, Light and Darkness, Mysticism, New Self, Psychology, Self-knowledge, Suffering and Joy, Unity of Faith

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Star Trails beyond the Cross (Photo by Paul Schuberth)

Star Trails beyond the Cross (Photo by Paul Schuberth)

A bit further below you can read John of the Cross’s last poem which he wrote when he finally had become completely ONE with God.

John of the Cross was a Carmelite priest and mystic who put his “up and down” experiences with God biblically founded down on paper until he reached the whole unity (i.e., unio mystica) with God through Jesus Christ. That poem was one of the first writings I had read from him when I came to know God’s living flame which had just begun to burn exceedingly high in my heart in the year 2000.

At that time I hoped that I had already finished my long way with God, that is, I thought I had reached the goal of perfect unity with Him. But, alas, it was only the beginning of a long, both blissful and painful way that led me closer and closer to Him. During the following years when I often thought that God would be silent and all the darkness inside me deeper than ever, He had been far closer than ever before, yet my birdbrain could not yet grasp it. God’s indwelling of a human being is indeed a divine mystery.

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Wanna be a Law-keeper?

28 Monday Jul 2014

Posted by Susanne Schuberth (Germany) in Following Jesus, Freedom from the Law, Self-knowledge, Walking in the Spirit

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Charlton Heston as Moses ["The Ten Commandments" (1956)]

“The Ten Commandments” [Charlton Heston as Moses (1956)]

Let’s say someone were hell-bent on being a good person, which is not a bad thing in itself, that’s for sure. However, imagine whenever that person observes something evil or uncomfortable emerging from his heart, such as pride, hatred, wrath, jealousy, covetousness, aggressiveness, enmity against God, or grief over a great loss, such a one would either follow a ritual of sorts by confessing his sins to God in the hope of getting rid of them or he would try to take his mind off these things by devoting himself fully to something which does not cause these bad feelings.

Do we believe that this procedure will be successful?

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