GREENE STREET LETTERS: All Or Nothing

Friday, October 5, 2012

All Or Nothing

Exodus 33:19
Then He said, "I will make ALL My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Oh, that I could ever wrap my head around who this God is.
Let me rephrase that.
Oh, if I could ever wrap my heart around who this God is.
I strive and struggle to know and understand Him, and just when I think I've made some headway, He comes along and shows me a complete new side of Himself.
Some of the greatest understanding as to the nature of God, comes in the smallest of words. Take the verse above. The word..."ALL". From Strong's Concordance, we see that the word "all" means the complete...the whole...nothing held back in reserve. God tells Moses that he is going to reveal His complete "Goodness"....His total nature.....His glory. The thing that kept coming to me over and over, is that God gives all. When He saves us...He saves every bit of us. When He delivers us from our addiction, He delivers all of us...spirit, body, and soul. He is a complete God who works completely.

His protection to us is a complete protection.
His provision for us is a complete provision.
His plans for us are complete plans.
He is not a God of the partial. He is not a God of the fractional.
Just as Jesus was fully God and fully man, so is His nature
What love is born from this God for His creation that He would give all.
Love that reaches down through the muck and mire of this society and this world, to lay hold of and pull up that life, that soul that cries out to be rescued.
God sees value in us, even when we don't or can't see it. When the world has cast us aside because we are no longer any use to anyone, God takes us and cleans us up.Cleans us up, not just a little bit, but complete.
Why?
Because He is an "ALL" kind of God.
That is truth you can believe in.
Ask Him to manifest Himself to you today. To reveal Himself. To speak to you in a way you can understand.
If I haven't told you lately....
I love you...
And God loves you.....

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.

Friday, October 5, 2012

All Or Nothing

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD