GREENE STREET LETTERS: Breathe

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Breathe

There are many levels to this thing we call "Salvation".....
Oh, it's not that they get you a better seat in heaven....
The level's are our awareness of who God really is.
More than a Savior...
More than John 3:16...
More than singing "How Great Thou Art"....

It is that sudden awareness that washes over you when you come to realize that you are being called into a relationship with the real-deal, creator of the universe, burning bush-part the Red Sea God.

The measuring of your own worth against someone who was before time.
Who looked upon your misery and self-inflicted pain...
Someone who came with such a heart of love for you that He stretched himself out upon a cross and allowed himself to receive nails into His flesh. Why? Because He was going to pay a debt you and I could never pay. A sin debt that demanded a blood sacrifice.

And as bad as the physical aspect of the cross was....
It was the moment when God released His full fury on His own Son who hung on that cross.
God's wrath was poured out in fullness on Him because Jesus had taken the sin of the world upon Himself. It was such a horrific moment that God caused darkness to fall upon the earth. No human was worthy to view such a thing.

How must God have felt when that moment came....
To hear His own Son cry out....."My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me!!"
And it is the realization of what Christ did for me that causes me to find no value in anyone or anything else.

As Marie Barnett sings...."You are the very air I breathe"...."You are my daily bread"...
So this morning, as I type these words....
I am very much in tune to who God is....
Don't let Him simply be a "Gift-giver"....nothing wrong with the blessings and gifts He brings to us. But He is so much more.
See Him today for who He truly is.
See Him in His majesty...
See Him in the glory of His name...
See Him and proclaim "Woe is me for I am undone".
I don't think we can come in contact with God and not be affected by His presence.

I want to stay in His presence daily until I draw my last breath...
Then I will see Him face to face....
More than religion...
More than church....
He is God.....

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.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Breathe

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD