GREENE STREET LETTERS: Last Day

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Last Day

We humans are obsessed with keeping lists and organizing our lives.
We count down our calenders with great zeal and this being the last day of 2009, there will be many celebrations tonight.
Celebrations for what?
For simply having made it another year?
For having come to grips with our mortality?
Or is it simple a good reason to drink more than we should, eat more than we need to and cast aside our Morales in an effort to live up to the phrase, 'Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.' Not a very happy entrance to 2010 is it?
Yet tonight, millions all over this planet will gather to celebrate.
Maybe it's a way to make us feel good about ourselves.
That when we actually stop to take stock of our life, we find our self in the liability row rather than on the asset side. That would be sobering also wouldn't it? To think that your life so far has counted for nothing. To come to the realization that you you have just wasted 365 presents given to you by God. Wow! Let's celebrate and forget about all this heavy duty responsibility.

I'm not saying we should all run off to the middle East and become monks and monk-ettes. I am saying that we should realize what life here on this planet was given to us for.
John 17:3 - And this is eternal life, to know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
To know....
To be intimate with, not simply a nod of the head with an ascent to intellectualizing this relationship.
To consider for one moment that you have survived these past 365 days not because of your wits or smarts or street savvy, but because God saw fit for you to. That somewhere along the way of these 365 days, God, in fact, was speaking to you. Maybe you missed what He said or maybe you heard it but chose to ignore it. I don't know. I do know that we don't have time here in this world to simply fritter way this gift He has given to us.

SO here we are today, December 31, 2009.
There will never be another 12/31/09 are experiencing it right now.
So did you become a little more like Jesus this year?
Did you study His word and fall in love with his teachings?
Did you practice what you read in your everyday life?
Did you learn to love more, not as the world would have you love but as we are instructed by Jesus?
I think we have the makings of a good years in 2010.
Let's not waste today.
Happy New Year and............
God on you...........
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

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We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Last Day

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