tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905735841024238492.post-8491742920368827072008-03-03T06:57:00.000-08:002008-03-03T06:59:14.147-08:00Time passes and I still don’t understand. The weakness I exhibit abounds while the strength that carries me through the difficult seems to remain. How can I possibly stand as I am, while yet lacking what appears to be focus? Yet when disaster strikes I stand in his strength and exposure doesn’t seem to matter. Time doesn’t seem to matter, only my circumstance.<br /><br />Am I secretly seeking Daddy as I walk about or am I just fat dumb and happy without need until at once the devil uses my complacency to act up and at once I am reminded from where my strength comes. What a reactionary faith that is, what a situational adherence to the praise of my God. It is that a subtle difference that causes me despair while waiting for salvation. When in reality I need never despair.<br /><br />What if, What if I truly acted as I do in crisis all the time? How much more would I accomplish. There has never been a circumstance that God was not able to deliver me and my family from and I know he is there for me but what if I walked in that understanding at all times. What if I really believed what I walked in, while in times of crisis? I mean I know how because he delivers me from evil so why not now for instance.<br /><br />As I listen to peoples difficulties I hear the duality of their positions. Why then can’t I see mine as they occur? What prevents us from discerning the truth of a situation? Why do we allow ourselves a duality?<br /><br />That is the meat of our faith that is the stuff that makes things shine and become epiphanies and moments of clarity of faith. We all have that in us.<br /><br />I am convinced that is the cross we are instructed to put on us daily our affirmation of choice in deciding that God isn’t a liar and we are not him and that no matter the enemy he is with us and will take care of us.<br /><br />It is a choice.<br /><br />Choose.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8905735841024238492-849174292036882707?l=jglmclaycountymission.blogspot.com'/></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13540835788740535660noreply@blogger.com1