GREENE STREET LETTERS: MOON PIES AND THE COMPASSIONS OF GOD

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

MOON PIES AND THE COMPASSIONS OF GOD

There are some things in life that are so simple yet so enjoyable.

Some of these treats have slipped from our memory as we have gotten older.

A fresh Moon Pie is one of them.

Nothing worse than biting into one that is stale.

You plunge your teeth deep into that pie and your throat says, "Wait a minute!"

The chocolate covering taste old and has a bitterness to it.
The graham cracker crust has the consistency of cardboard, and the

marshmallow center is something akin to roofing tar.

A stale Moon Pie can send your world into a tale spin if you let it.

But you get a hold of a fresh one and it is heaven in a circle.

Why it'd make you want to run around the room an slap your momma.

That's some good eating...them thar' Moon Pies.

Use to buy Moon Pies for a nickle back in 19---well, never mind.

Thing was, when you bought it, you knew that it was going to be good.

What else do I like when it's fresh?
Butterfinger candy bars....

There is nothing like biting into a fresh one...the peanut butter center is flaky and just melts in your mouth.

Fresh is good.

Fresh is good when it comes to food.

So why do we not think about the freshness of God?

Why do we move about day after day never asking God for a

fresh touch of His presence?

Lamentations 3:22-23 speaks of God's compassion being made new every morning.

That means every morning we arise, there waiting for us to partake of is the compassion of God.

I need a fresh awareness in my Spirit of God each day. I need to shake off the "yesterday" with all it's problems and troubles, triumphs and failures, so I can put on "today"

Each day brings a freshness to it as we arise, that no matter what happened yesterday....

no matter how good or how bad yesterday was.....
God is fresh this morning and waiting for me to follow.

Good stuff!

Grab a Moon Pie and a 2nd cup of coffee and find God today.

God on you....

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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, April 19, 2022

MOON PIES AND THE COMPASSIONS OF GOD

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