GREENE STREET LETTERS: MORE THAN

Friday, May 27, 2022

MORE THAN

More? How much more do I want? What is it exactly I want more of?

Is it things of this world? More money.....more possessions....more vacations?

What about more friends, or more time off?

What if the "more" that I'm talking about is God? We humans fall prey to our own ability to think and reason. We believe that we can categorize God and understand Him totally.

We believe that we can know God fully and completely.

Truth is, God is bigger than my reasoning.

He is larger and more capable than my finite mind could ever comprehend.

Isn't that the real rub? Me, a finite being, trying to understand someone who is infinite and beyond understanding.

Don't get me wrong, God reveals Himself to us on a level that we can kind of make sense of who we are dealing with. But to fully understand God....well, that is above my pay grade I do believe.

To me, when I reach the limits of my own understanding of God, that is the place that my faith takes over. To latch on to the simple truth that God is who He truly

claims to be, and will do what He has promised He would. I have faith to embrace that which I cannot understand with human reasoning.

One of my most favorite passages is found in Ephesians 3:20-21

"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (also imagine), according to the power that works in us, To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever Amen."

Is this a comfort? To me it is. To think that I have relationship with someone who has Power and Capabilities that exceed human wisdom, and brings them to bare in the relationship I have with Him. Wowzers!!

Isaiah 55:8-9

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways

My ways", says the Lord

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways

higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

So what is the "more" I desire this morning?
To know Him...

To know His will for my life...
To embrace His grace to live out His will....

Strength for one more day...

To be able to share with one person today the love of God,

and the His will for their life....

God on you..

michael b.

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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.

Friday, May 27, 2022

MORE THAN

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