Trust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_AQ5EiWShU&feature=youtu.be


When talking about Women submitting to their husbands and following their lead Marcia says "I think it goes way back to the garden, we simply don't trust Adam."


A couple of thoughts:

1. I think she's probably right. Part of the curse that God gives to women is that they would desire to rule over their husbands, so submitting would be in direct opposition of their natural inclinations. (Gen 3:16)

2. I feel great guilt and fear that I'm not an "Adam" that's worthy of trust. I don't even trust myself, why would I ask someone else to trust me?

3. Jesus, I am a great sinner and feel like a failure as a son. I know you have bought righteousness and an identity for me that is perfect and flawless, but I don't feel like I've stepped into that. When you speak reality shifts to your command. You said "Let there be light" and there was light. I need you to speak truth into me that destroys my sinful nature and instability. My untrustworthiness, my sinful nature from Adam. Not so that people will come to trust in me, but that they would see your work, and trust in you.


-James

Dear heart, please be brave.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Thessalonians 4:16-18


"and so we will always be with the Lord." We. Me and my dad. We will always be with the Lord.

You are my glory, and the lifter of my head.

-James

You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, LORD, do I seek.”
Hide not your face from me.

blocks

Many of my best posts are written at 1am. I don't know why this is. I think it might be that I have self imposed emotional blocks that become tired and fall down when midnight arrives. Though...this is 1am...and I do not feel this is some of my best writing...the blocks are resilient tonight.

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." -Mark 10:27

Sometimes I think I become so familiar with scripture I forget to stop and be awestruck with some of the more subtle words. "Jesus looked at them and said". Jesus saw us. He spoke to us. Who are we that he should be mindful of us? He is impossibly good.

Heaven and the weight of glory can terrify you sometimes.