GREENE STREET LETTERS: Power And Glory

Monday, October 22, 2018

Power And Glory

Psalm 63:2
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.

Power and glory, huh? I picked the photo above because I thought it says a lot about how we view power and glory. Bold letters in front of an explosion, all coming at you off the page. Big letters to spell out the content...letters that catch your attention. But is that really what Power and Glory is about, especially when it comes to God....especially when it comes to His interaction and work in my heart?

Granted we are talking about the One and Only, True, Living God of the universe. One who does hold all power and authority, whose glory does fill the earth. But when it comes to me and my life, His Power and glory (or his nature and character) come with a gentleness to it. He beckons me (now there's a good word...beckon) to make the choice to not look to the darkness for my answers on how to live life. His Power is given to me to aid me in my daily walk. Just like the Big Book of A.A. tells us..."God did for me what I could not do for myself". What that boils down to is a simple fact. I could not live or find life outside of my addiction. I tried and tried to overcome,but the power of darkness swallowed me every time. My good intentions fell to the ground in a heap. But God touched my heart and I cried out to Him. He came! He came with the ability to overcome (that is His Power), and He came with the mindset and heart-set to look to Him for how to be the man He created me to be, giving to me some of His Spiritual DNA, through the implanting of His Holy Spirit in me. He gave me His nature and character (see Galatians 5:22-23). In spite of all my failure, I am a new creation of infinite worth when I turn will and life over to His care.

What was once impossible has been shattered and replaced with His will and presence.
What was once unattainable has now been given freely to through His power and glory.
What was once only a distant hope and wish, is now a reality as I get up every day ready to handle whatever is out there waiting on me. That is the true Power and Glory that has been made a reality in my own life.
I pray that you find it for yourself today.
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.

Monday, October 22, 2018

Power And Glory

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