GREENE STREET LETTERS: Off Centered....

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Off Centered....

New template for the blog...

The blog keeps changing as a reflection of how life truly is.

Life is change.

Real life is found in "hearing" and "following" God in the middle of the change.

How quick do we hear?
How quick do we adapt our plans to fit his plans?

If you notice the header of this blog, you'll see that it is off center.
To some it will bother them and they may even comment,"Hey! why don't you center the title of the blog?"

Truth be known.....
I did it for a reason....

My life is never to be centered on the things of the world.

I am always off kilter so to speak.
I never quiet fit in with what the world wants or expects.
Why?
Because the world is not my home.
In fact the apostle Paul stated that the world was dead to him and he was dead to the world.

So, when the world looks at me, I appear to be off centered.

I appear to be out of step.
I don't operate like the world.
I'm an alien only passing through

(No! I'm not green and I don't know Agents Mulder and Scully)

This world is not my home.
Heaven is.

The dictates and directions of my heavenly Father will

never fit the ways of this world.
There will always be this oil and water relationship going on

between me and the world.

For my time here on this planet,

I want to tell as many about this God I have been rescued by.
I want to tell them the truth.
I want them to understand that "Stuff" happens to us while we live here on

this planet.
And "Stuff" can happen whether you are following God or living for the world.

IT isn't the fact that good and bad happens to every one

that is a given.
The real difference is found in the ability to cope and move on.

You can do so in your own intellect and strength....

or...

you can allow the real-deal God to be the center of every decision that you

need to make.

I have found the value of living for and

chasing after God.

the WAY is unlike anything I have ever known.
What WAY?
Jesus.

He said that he was the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE.

Think on these things and allow God's Holy Spirit

to touch you.

To whisper to your heart and awaken something deep and older than this world...
The eternal truth that does not change.

It is the adventure of a lifetime....
Following this Jesus!

God on you......

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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

Our Statement of Faith

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.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Off Centered....

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