GREENE STREET LETTERS: Rest Easy Old Friend

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Rest Easy Old Friend

There are verses in Scripture that seem quiet harsh and hard. When we read them, it's like getting hit in the face with a glass of ice cold water. We acknowledge the truth that the verses hold, we just don't like admitting that there is nothing we can do about them. Nothing in our own power, strength or ability that can change these verses.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 - A time to be born..............and a time to die.
We know that this is the reality of our time here on planet earth. The moment we come from our mother's womb the clock starts ticking.
We all are headed toward a finality, unless Jesus comes back to take His body home. We all are given a given number of days to live out. Hopefully during our time here, we make the most of them by turning will and life over to the care of God. Still the idea of moving toward death is much different that being born. One is view as the start, the other.....an ending. But such is not true. It is merely a truth that comes from God.

As we move through this world....this life that has been given to us, we touch the lives of the people we come in contact with, and we are touched by the life of others. Sort of a give and take on a spiritual plain. This touching of lives either makes us better and points us to God, or we become cynical and skeptical.

I received a call today to inform me that Walt Grambling had died. Heart attack. Immediately as the reality of his passing hit me, I began to have all these memories of Walt. His wit and humor were what drew me to him. He had the driest sense of humor of anyone I know. Always up for a laugh, Walt understood the value of being grateful and not allowing gloom and doom to overtake him. Don't get me wrong, like all of us, Walt had his demons that sought to take him into the darkness. But this morning, he no longer struggles. This morning Walt is free. As I've written in the past when others I know have died...."Today, he now knows the truth of what we only claim to believe."

I love you, and I will miss you....
Rest easy old friend.....

Psalm 116:15
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Father, I ask that you would send Your Holy Spirit to Walt's family. That they may find comfort and solace in this time of grief.
In Jesus name...
Amen.

God on you...
mbb

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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, November 28, 2017

Rest Easy Old Friend

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