GREENE STREET LETTERS: Ta Da!!!!

Friday, January 7, 2011

Ta Da!!!!

This is the 901st posting for the Greene Street Letters.
What does this mean?
I don't know that it means anything other than I have found some discipline and I try to post Monday through Saturday.
Looking at Scripture in reference to this being the 901st posting, I turned to Psalm 90:1 - LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Interesting. The recognition that God is the focal point where we find protection and true life. He is a dwelling place. We live "in" Him, or there is real life when we place ourselves in the care of Christ.We exist "outside" of Him, by that I mean we merely take up space and walk about without direction or purpose.

Jesus made the statement in John 15:4 - "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in Me."
Abiding comes from obeying. Obeying means God's will over my own will. A surrender and obedience brings about blessings from God. Notice in the John 15 verse, there is a production of fruit that comes from being where we are suppose to be. There is evidence of change that comes about in this relationship with Jesus. There is an empowering of the Holy Spirit that comes with abiding. Abiding keeps me from wandering. Wandering is nothing more than movement with no purpose. Such behavior always leads to trouble and destruction. That I do not need in my life.

Dwelling in Christ.
Abiding in Christ...
Ephesians 3:17 reads "That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length, and depth and height...to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. That you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

That is my desire......
To be filled with all the fullness of God.
To have every bit of Michael Bynum purged and removed and replaced with God.
Silly?
Impossible?
Wishful thinking?
Why not go for it? Why not sell out to God and totally let Him have his way as He takes up residence in our hearts? I am all in for that.
I've tried the world's ways and they don't work.
I have tried to be somebody other than who God created me to be and it lead to heart ache and disaster.
I am going to simply "BE".
That God will define me as I obey.
Well, we've made it through the first week of the new year, and with a winter storm event on the horizon (as our weather forecasters love to say) I encourage you to make the milk, egg, bread, battery run to your local food shop / store / Wally-Mart.

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

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.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Ta Da!!!!

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD