Read with me cover-to-cover. 2024. Share what I've learned in the dark, in the light. Start the Old & on January 1st. About 3 chapters per day. About 15 minutes of your day. Join us as the "axe of Biblical Love thaws the frozen parts" (66LL) in our hearts. My focus this year is sharing what God has done for me over the years---and trusting God to weave every single day.
Went for a girls weekend to Wimberley with Della & Company. I'll be back Sunday night. There is probably no internet in the little cabin in the woods. I do have internet on my phone so I'll get to read your comments which will mean something to me this weekend! Love you lots.
The weeping prophet weeps. God's chosen people...God's chosen people...His own...sin with no heart for Him.
Repentance is far from them. They do not even care. Not one "I'm sorry."
I hear. I care. Clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ...I count the cost of my personal sin.
I weep with Jeremiah. For me. And how I've failed God. I weep with Jeremiah. For my brothers and sisters in Christ. And how we've failed God.
Pornography in the hearts of God's people...even his men of the cloth...the men in the pulpit.
Divorce running like wildfire across our homes.
Children sacrificed to the god of busyness. Or indulgence. Or laziness. So many other things come before raising children in a home environment that honors God and disciples them in Christ.
Abortion. O death, where is your sting? Right here, God, in my broken heart for those who sacrifice babies today.
Entertainment and social media...how much money do we give to these pursuits? And that's okay. But what about tithes and offerings. What about our time and talents. Do we invest in God as much as we invest in pleasure?
Please, do not be offended by what I say. I'm saying it to me. And to my family of God. Please hit me hard on this sober topic! Share your own insight into soul-searching. I don't want to miss a thing that I need to be sorry to God for!
It HURTS to look in the mirror.
God, You speak to me in this love letter. You plead with ME to turn back.
I can choose to stop my ears. To deny. To be oblivious. To walk away unrepentant or blind.
Or I can fall at Your feet, absorbed in Your soul-pricking words of life, and see my sin as You see it here.
Convict me, Lord. Dust off the cobwebs of my soul. Run away the spiders and let in THE LIGHT!
I feel your heaviness, Deborah. Not one "I'm sorry"...“everyone whose life is all outside and no inside"...I'm heartbroken. I weep, seized by grief. Are there no healing ointments in Gilead? Isn't there a doctor in the house?"
As I type, I have "There is a Balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul" playing from YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GtTPhCjbqo&feature=related
Thankful for the Doctor in the house Whose Name is Faithful- "I'm God, and I act in loyal love.”
Annette, this is one of the most sobering books of the Bible. Ezekiel is even more difficult to read if we love our God.
A prophet is not the best person to invite to your party.
He is sent by God to announce.
This book announces that God is Done. Judgement is on it's way.
Very sobering in light of the days we live in. I have focused on Jeremiah in the past and just had to walk away from it because it was so very painful to read. But today I'm not turning away. I'm letting this book in. I will listen to God and change for He loves me so.
Went for a girls weekend to Wimberley with Della & Company. I'll be back Sunday night. There is probably no internet in the little cabin in the woods. I do have internet on my phone so I'll get to read your comments which will mean something to me this weekend! Love you lots.
ReplyDeleteThe weeping prophet weeps.
ReplyDeleteGod's chosen people...God's chosen people...His own...sin with no heart for Him.
Repentance is far from them.
They do not even care.
Not one "I'm sorry."
I hear.
I care.
Clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ...I count the cost of my personal sin.
I weep with Jeremiah.
For me. And how I've failed God.
I weep with Jeremiah.
For my brothers and sisters in Christ. And how we've failed God.
Pornography in the hearts of God's people...even his men of the cloth...the men in the pulpit.
Divorce running like wildfire across our homes.
Children sacrificed to the god of busyness. Or indulgence. Or laziness. So many other things come before raising children in a home environment that honors God and disciples them in Christ.
Abortion. O death, where is your sting? Right here, God, in my broken heart for those who sacrifice babies today.
Entertainment and social media...how much money do we give to these pursuits? And that's okay. But what about tithes and offerings. What about our time and talents. Do we invest in God as much as we invest in pleasure?
Please, do not be offended by what I say. I'm saying it to me. And to my family of God. Please hit me hard on this sober topic! Share your own insight into soul-searching. I don't want to miss a thing that I need to be sorry to God for!
It HURTS to look in the mirror.
God, You speak to me in this love letter. You plead with ME to turn back.
I can choose to stop my ears. To deny. To be oblivious. To walk away unrepentant or blind.
Or I can fall at Your feet, absorbed in Your soul-pricking words of life, and see my sin as You see it here.
Convict me, Lord. Dust off the cobwebs of my soul. Run away the spiders and let in THE LIGHT!
I feel your heaviness, Deborah. Not one "I'm sorry"...“everyone whose life is all outside and no inside"...I'm heartbroken. I weep, seized by grief. Are there no healing ointments in Gilead? Isn't there a doctor in the house?"
ReplyDeleteAs I type, I have "There is a Balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul" playing from YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GtTPhCjbqo&feature=related
Thankful for the Doctor in the house Whose Name is Faithful-
"I'm God, and I act in loyal love.”
Annette, this is one of the most sobering books of the Bible. Ezekiel is even more difficult to read if we love our God.
ReplyDeleteA prophet is not the best person to invite to your party.
He is sent by God to announce.
This book announces that God is Done. Judgement is on it's way.
Very sobering in light of the days we live in. I have focused on Jeremiah in the past and just had to walk away from it because it was so very painful to read. But today I'm not turning away. I'm letting this book in. I will listen to God and change for He loves me so.