GREENE STREET LETTERS: The Power Of Love

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Power Of Love

"For God So loved the world......."
"For God is love......"
"For the Fruit of the Spirit is love......"

The Power to change and the power to be changed is found in the most misunderstood word in the English language. That word is love.
Love isn't an emotion.
Love isn't a feeling.
Love is a choice.
A choice that is birthed in a heart that has been the recipient of the most incredible types of love ever. The Love of God poured out on me, the most undeserving person ever to walk this earth. He chose me. He loves me. And in return, He is trying to teach me how to love like Him.

Ephesians 3:17-19 - 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.

Did you catch that in the verses above?
Did you catch the dimensions of the love of God?
His love is so wide that it will cover anything and everything.
His love is so long that he will go to any lengths to pour it out on you.
His love is so deep that nothing can escape His power to heal and restore. To forgive and redeem.
His love is so high it reaches to heaven. In other words, His love, poured on us, is to be returned to Him by us. That is the spiritual life-line, or connection that ties us to God.
His love.

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.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Power Of Love

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