Confessions

I am a son of my Father in Heaven.  What He says about me, defines me. 

I am a beloved child.

I am meant to be transformed and to live transformed; joy is normal, love is normal, the fullness of the fruit of the Spirit is normal because He lives in me.  

I have been made new.  I was born of Adam, now I am born again. 

I am set free of the chains that bind me because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. 

Compassion is normal, in fact, it is the second commandment.

"I define normal.  I define what is good and right and true. 

Do not listen to the lies that are trying to defile your mind."

on empty

there is this familiar gnawing,
a groaning from my heart,
a craving from the cavity in my chest
a longing for things I cannot fill
with the earth beneath me 
or in relating to humankind


i cannot drown it in alcohol
i cannot gorge it with food
i cannot escape it in television
i cannot run from it in denial


the gnawing in my heart roars
like a hungry lion
famished in the savannah's sun


i am ruled by another's love
the fear of shame or the 
blaspheming of the God 
I am for and not against


what is in this hunger that 
starves me so much? 
why me?
My soul craves you


As the deer pants for streams of water,
it must be You. 
Nothing else will do.


I believe Ecclesiastes has it.
in 3:11
'He also has planted 
eternity
in men's hearts 
and minds 
[a divinely implanted sense 
of a purpose working through the ages 
which nothing under the sun 
but God alone can satisfy],'


Fill me with You.
I'm on empty.

Good News

Jesus declared with divine

A U T H O R I T Y

"The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,

because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor"

because it's a bad situation 

in our human emptiness.

"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted"

because our hearts are broken without 

Him.

"to proclaim freedom for the captives AND release from darkness for the prisoners"

because slavery in death's dark camp is our portion on our own.

"to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor"

because bad news is all we had about our condition.

only the hope of Messiah to come.

Surely HE loves us.

Surely HE cares.

Who else would preach good news,

bind up the broken, 

set the slaves of darkness free,

Boom in nuclear explosive decibels,

"this is the year of the LORD's favor"?!

Behold, this...

yeah... 

this is Good News. 

He loves us.

Isaiah 61

  

Why blog? (aka vision)

Why am I blogging? What's the point?

I want to share words, pictures, ideas and experiences that God is using to reveal Himself to me.  That is, I want you to encounter God personally through the revelation He's given me.

The exercise of blogging gives me a tool to process and remember who He is, what He has said, and the lessons He has taught me.

Whether you're just checking Him out or know Jesus well, I invite you to join me in the pursuit knowing God better.