293 - "If Jesus Walked Into Your Room Tonight" Mark 9:2-50; Luke 9:28-56

                                                                        

The disciples don't even know the intentions of their own heart here.  How often does that happen in all of us on our way to do good?  They wanted fire rained down on those who didn't believe.  Jesus came not to destroy but deliver.  Luke 9:51

Christ is always doing us good.  He sees the crowd in need.  He never leaves us "straitened or stinted."  Love that God just doesn't straighten us out but gives grace, healing, joy.

Five loaves.  Two fish.  It's all He had to work with.  Every day, Christ makes it happen again in the midst of impossible odds.  But, He is not playing the odds; He controls them.  Luke 9:10. were to walk into the room right now where you sit, what would He say to you?  Am I too concerned about how others interpret my life?  I think my God would wrap His Loving Arms around me and have compassion on me right where I am.  You see, I am a mess right now, but make no mistake about what I say, I am a glorious mess!  My tears are hot and flowing and repentant.  And I cannot be more pleased with what I am seeing in my own life---how a Gracious God is allowing me to deal with what's going on inside of my heart when others are mistreating me. He is giving me a heart to move into their lives and so want to do it!  I need to deal with me and my doings not theirs.  Mark 9:24 ~ LORD, I believe, help my unbelief!

PHOTO: A scroll from a shop in Israel. The Word. The Living Word. Nothing matters more.