GREENE STREET LETTERS: What? It's Monday Again?

Monday, May 24, 2010

What? It's Monday Again?

Yep! Time to start another week.
Saturday night was a good night (if you ask some) and a stinker night (if you ask me). I struggled with the message and in giving it. My wife said it was a clear and concise teaching but as I was giving it....it sounded like the teacher on the Peanuts cartoon.....(remember her?)
When she spoke, all we heard was "Blah, blah, blah,blah,blah." I guess that if the word went out and it touched people then God was good. Truth be known......NEWFLASH!!! I'm not the center of this little world. So I can live with my struggling and God doing good.

I have been in Genesis now for 2 weeks and I am amazed at what God is showing me.
Not that it is profound or earth shattering, but that I am seeing things in a new light or new way.
New thing #1 --- Man really has been called to be the head of his family. That as the man goes, so goes the family. I see so many other families where the man has given away his authority and duty as husband and father. The wife suffers and is forced to try and be the leader of the family, a place God never intended her to be.

I know that there are situations where the woman has to do this. Maybe her husband left her or has died, then I believe that God gives grace to the woman. In fact when she turns to God, Scripture says that He will become her spiritual husband.

Funny part you find if you read Scripture is that no where is woman called to love her husband. She is called to respect him and honor him. What's up with this? If the man will love his wife and treat her the way the Bible says to, she will respond. She is drawn to a man who loves her and shows her this love through his protection and provision. Doesn't really play out this way in our society today. Maybe that is why the divorce rate is so high. I don't know...you figure it out.

I have been blessed beyond measure to have married a wonderful woman. Vicki and I have been married for 37+ years and I am just now understanding the role of a man in marriage. Not that I have been perfect, I haven't. One thing I do have going in my favor is I am very teachable.

Have a great Monday....
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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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.

Monday, May 24, 2010

What? It's Monday Again?

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