What does it take to recognize and realize potential?
Do you ever look at what someone else is doing – bigger than you – and say, “why am I not more fruitful… why am I not getting more results?”
I think this voice can mislead us. Continue reading “Potential”
legitimacy, validity, authenticity, reality
As I have been contemplating what makes or confers legitimacy, I have observed some things that I hope will be helpful for you. The word legitimate comes from an old word that means “legal” or to make legal.
There is an order in society that confers legitimacy, validity. I am concerned that we, as believers, so often errantly take our queues from society on what is valid. Let's keep in mind that the natural world does not embrace the reality of the spiritual realm, much less it's superiority, as the modern scientist portrays himself as irrefutable.
Finding the center of a worldview can help us understand what seeds are being carried along in it's stream. Continue reading “Perspective”
At some point, I got off the train…. with all of it's momentum, with all of it's ambition, with all of it's worthwhile and exciting destinations. With all of it's swaying back and forth, it's movements, convincing it's riders that progress was being made. I headed into parts unknown to me, tho I would find a trail in the wilderness, I didn't really know that at the outset. Others had passed thru and marked a path, in the generations and the seasons that had come before….. it required focus to make out there markings, as time and weather had worn their edges. But the path was certainly there, and with diligence could be discerned, and trusted. Continue reading “Getting Off The Train”
One of the prevailing influences or “spirits of the age” in our times attempts to govern behavior and life itself thru commerce and commercial incentive. This motivation has a final destination in mind and it is not a good one. You students of the book of Revelation will, no doubt, “get my drift.”
We will need to fight in order to overcome this, to be led, not by money, but by the will of God. Continue reading “Overcoming – Epic Faith II”
