Jesus said: come to me, get away with me, and you’ll recover your life.
If bold enough to follow him, he will show you how to take real tests and if you walk and work with him he will show you how we do it.
Living “freely and lightly” in our age of anxiety may sound too good to be true.
While it is true the desire for a more meaningful sort of life doesn’t just appear out of thin air - against current fashionable opinion -the longing for more than just enduring what man’s token laws cruelly administers, no matter how weak, is evidence Under God is already at work in your life.
God is already at work in your life just by reading this; you would not want more of God if the Holy Spirit wasn’t first seeking you.
This is the trinity’s action within that fans those small flames of purposeful desire that motivate us to “Keep Company with Jesus” in fact, the very desire or desperation you may be feeling can be God’s way of readying you to walk and work with his son.
Take heart transformations happen as you keep company with Jesus.
What do you want Jesus to do for you?
Jesus knew to get well required the responsibilities that come with wellness.
He does not grant wishes like a genie in a bottle, rather he works with people, allowing their desires to draw him into the core conversations of life.
For Jesus requests for water, healing, rest, and so on all engage soul hungers; misguided, self-destructive, true or addictive desperations and desires opens doors to relationships.
You learn from Jesus as he keeps company with those who want something.
Watch him attend to the hole in their heart that is bigger than the galaxy.
Many of his deepest interactions get at two things: (1) the true nature of peoples desires and (2) a spiritual practice that helps them make space for under god in their lives.
Centuries of Connection between Discipline and Desire
The desire for more God practices under god requires missing ingredient know as Spiritual Disciplines.
These desires to know and love God fueled these disciplines.
- Acts 3 - the discipline of compassion.
- Acts 4 – the discipline of witness, intercession and detachment.
- Acts7 – the discipline of Service
- Acts 3:1: 10:9 – the discipline of fixed hour prayer.
- Acts 14:23 – the discipline of fasting
- Acts 15 – the discipline of discernment.
The Didache, an early Christen text, gave instruction to believers on how to grow in Love of under God and neighbor.
It addressed disciplines like Stewardship, Humility and the lords Supper.
Discernment
Evidences compass many new aged Americans believes that the will of God is whatever choice brings the most Money, Perks, Success and personal gain at any given particular movement.
Some citizens in the face of these adversities of sort while not wanting to do something about it hide behind under God as a sure sign from God.
Discernment from natural laziness perspectives shuns what are we to make of “Signs” and “Open Doors” and desire and self –sacrifice that lead into deep waters.
Biblical discernment requires more than just good judgment, open doors and decision making skills; Right Discernment arises out of a relationship with God.
It is founded on the reality of the Holy Spirit’s presence within us.
Jesus makes it abundantly clear that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor and Guide into Under God’s Wills and Ways.
The Holy Spirit can be counted on to:
1. Assure us of God’s love, goodness and trustworthy nature (Romans 8:16)
2. Convict us of Sin, Revealing the False Self and all its agendas and attachments (John 16:8)
3. Lead us into Truth, opening the cleansing power of Repentance and Freedom Jesus brings (John 16:13).
4. Bring glory to God (John 16:14) through everything under God that happens to us.
5. Nurture the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
To know Gods Love we must be assured under god of God’s Love.
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Discernment depends upon deep trust in God’s Good intentions toward us.
Distrusting God’s intentions and fearing that his will could be life-thwarting rather than life-giving can sabotage our ability to listen and wait for direction.
Reveal the source of your distrust to God, ask for help and healing, the spirit unlike man does not beat us up for expressing our doubts and fears under God; He hears us out, assures us of his love and leads us into Trust.
To discern well requires “The Spirit of Truth” to open our eyes to our attachments to things that influence our decision making: things likePrestige, Personal agendas, comforts, productivity and so on.
We need to confess our agendas and honestly ask the lord what must die in us (Unbridled GREED) in order for gods will under god to come forth.
When praying for God to make his way plain- go to lord Christ and simply ask ; to take away those things that the Evil One would use to Discourage and Destroy and turn them to my Good, my Growth, and your Glory, Amen.
Reference Book in topical edit: Spiritual Disciplines Handbook - Practices that transform us.
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The Moral man, said Freud, “is not he who is never tempted” but he who can resist his temptations.”
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The gate of Eden is forever barred from us by cherubim’s with a flaming sword.
So in many ways we are both blessed and cursed by consciousness.
You do have a voice and a choice - allow no other to unduly dictate under god that your voice no longer holds relevance in today’s world.
Once J. Edgar Hoover asked, what has happened to civic pride, the righteous indignation of otherwise respectable citizens that turn their backs on helpless victims (2012 p 893) of crimes?
Illinois senior citizens have earned their right to expect under God - safe retirement environments state free of organized care predators and law group racketeers.
Growing increases of no ethics in the air compass our state in the union to have educated more immoral devils then we know what to do with - let alone set down.
With it comes the awareness of realities between Good and Evil tyrannies and humanity.
Jung is accredited within translations for the masses; his reoccurred popularity has a great deal to do with publications presented at just the right when community dissatisfactions are at whit’s end.
Preventions in unsound behaviors are preferable over continually casting upon society evidenced walking crime waves.
Know the signs; there are many criminally minded while licensed who understand perfectly well what they are doing and its legality only applies when properly caught - which brings to mind a famous attorney saying from yesteryear: If it isn’t on paper - it never was promised nor happened.
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