For we walk by faith, not by sight.
~2 Cor 5:7
~2 Cor 5:7
Can I highlight this post? Highlighters are badass.
The Bible speaks for itself. Nothing can be added, and nothing can be taken away. Although I often try to interpret the Truth as applicable to my own life and then share it here, everyone is at a different place in their lives. What I'm experiencing is unlikely to be what anyone here is going through attm. However, the Truth is for everyone, and is meant to lead us all [on infinitely varying paths] to one destination :)
I won't attempt a lengthy deciphering of this past week. Not...yet. Sometimes I try way too hard to understand the events/words/coincidences that weave together our journey. Looking for profound meaning in life's everyday experiences. All too often I have to remind myself that I just need to give what I have to what's right before me, and let the profound come naturally, later on, when my perspective is more complete.
The significance and cause of the cliche phrase "hindsight is 20/20" just hit me as I wrote that. I think I just got sassed by God. Yes, I just claimed that God is a sassy God...
Everything is so much simpler than we tend to make it. The closer I get to Him, the simpler it gets :)
This past week = 2 Corinthians 5:7. The theme began last Sunday when Psalm of Abraham by Audra Lynn came out of nowhere and wouldn't stop playing in my head. So random. But not really... my thoughts work heavily through music, and I believe it's often how the Lord speaks to me:
Psalm of Abraham by rpavia
From there, quite a few other reminders culminating up to today, where the message in Church was all about this (from Mark 2). It's where Jesus responds to those walking in faith, and not by sight. Truly walking. As Pastor Mark said in this sermon: "if you're not walking in faith, then you're not walking".
Then after work, I went to see Book of Eli with a fantastic friend, to close out the day... and having no idea what it would be about. If anyone's seen the movie... you know what I'm getting at in all of this. If not, GO SEE IT. Like, NOW.
Just a movie? Yes. Hitting home something that the Lord has been trying to implant within me this week? Maybe :) I have a lot of work to do in walking by faith.... don't we all. This is just a seed being planted.... not a vine to prune and find fruit in. Not something to search for the profound in, just yet.
I truly think coincidences are less often a result of our selective perception, and more often (always?) a way that God gets our attention fixed on something. While we might not know the significance of it, the occurrence has a purpose. The moral of the story being not to hurt yourself by trying understand how God works. Magic tricks weren't invented so that the audience could figure them out :P
Think of coincidences as God's little yellow highlighter. I love highlighters.
I won't attempt a lengthy deciphering of this past week. Not...yet. Sometimes I try way too hard to understand the events/words/coincidences that weave together our journey. Looking for profound meaning in life's everyday experiences. All too often I have to remind myself that I just need to give what I have to what's right before me, and let the profound come naturally, later on, when my perspective is more complete.
The significance and cause of the cliche phrase "hindsight is 20/20" just hit me as I wrote that. I think I just got sassed by God. Yes, I just claimed that God is a sassy God...
Everything is so much simpler than we tend to make it. The closer I get to Him, the simpler it gets :)
This past week = 2 Corinthians 5:7. The theme began last Sunday when Psalm of Abraham by Audra Lynn came out of nowhere and wouldn't stop playing in my head. So random. But not really... my thoughts work heavily through music, and I believe it's often how the Lord speaks to me:
Psalm of Abraham by rpavia
From there, quite a few other reminders culminating up to today, where the message in Church was all about this (from Mark 2). It's where Jesus responds to those walking in faith, and not by sight. Truly walking. As Pastor Mark said in this sermon: "if you're not walking in faith, then you're not walking".
Then after work, I went to see Book of Eli with a fantastic friend, to close out the day... and having no idea what it would be about. If anyone's seen the movie... you know what I'm getting at in all of this. If not, GO SEE IT. Like, NOW.
Just a movie? Yes. Hitting home something that the Lord has been trying to implant within me this week? Maybe :) I have a lot of work to do in walking by faith.... don't we all. This is just a seed being planted.... not a vine to prune and find fruit in. Not something to search for the profound in, just yet.
I truly think coincidences are less often a result of our selective perception, and more often (always?) a way that God gets our attention fixed on something. While we might not know the significance of it, the occurrence has a purpose. The moral of the story being not to hurt yourself by trying understand how God works. Magic tricks weren't invented so that the audience could figure them out :P
Think of coincidences as God's little yellow highlighter. I love highlighters.
