Your undriven life is a “following” life. Can you picture the difference? Your driven-life is a pushed life. Someone or something pushes and you react by moving and doing.  Distinctly different is the following-life. Following comes from ahead and you choose to move and follow. Another difference is that your driven-life depends on outside stimuli. A book, a sermon, a parent, a spouse, or, the subtler stimuli of depression, anger, fear or self-loathing. Very different is the following-life. It listens, hears, chooses to obey and then it is empowered to do. This kind of doing is a rest-filled, graced kind of doing because you have a yoke-mate, Christ. “Come to…

“God will strip away anything that you are secure in that is not of Him.” Graham Cooke “Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.” Song of Solomon 8:6 Please follow and like us:

This will not be a life-is-a-beach kind of post . But if you’re in the process of becoming wine or bread you will find rest in the hope of this miraculous process. Picture the process: Individual kernels of wheat separated by protective coats of chaff swinging in the late summer sun, rattling small sounds of ripeness. Off in the distance the sound of harvesters seems nonthreatening at first but it grows louder and louder and then all at once the sharp blade cuts each head of grain from its life source. After a series of jostlings near violent, a small kernel of grain emerges only to lose all identity under…

I often hear the complaint, “Why do I always have to be learning the same things over and over again?” We would do better to re-frame what the true goal is before we shame and judge ourselves. The only and true goal, better described as a state of being, is to be IN Christ. John 15, the parable about the vine and the branches, best describes how this functions. In this state, nothing is done apart from being attached to the Vine where a natural course of fruitfulness will follow. So what should our reaction be to those things we have judged as hampering and recurring? Ask the Holy Spirit…

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:6  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14 Complete surrender. A living sacrifice. If…