rest in Him... in the unknown...

I don't like not knowing...

The loved one's words remind me...
when we don't know...
we can rest in the fact...
He knows...

I used to feel the same way about the unknown...

Being one gifted at coming up with the worst case scenario in any given situation... I was prone to worry... anxiety... fear...

As I've learned to trust Him...
I find great peace... and comfort...
in His knowing...

He is NEVER caught by surprise... or off guard...
NEVER... is He at a loss for what to do...
NEVER... is He manipulated... or played the fool...

He knows...
so I don't have to...

I find rest in His knowing...
when things catch me off guard...
or I'm at a loss for what to do...
or I've been manipulated and played...

He knew... He knows...
and He has His glory...
and my good...
at the heart of it...

If you find yourself... like one I love... saying...
I don't like not knowing...
find rest...
in the truth...
the fact...
He knows...
and you don't have to...

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue,

behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

You hem me in, behind and before,

and lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

it is high; I cannot attain it.

Psalm 139:1-6 ESV

lean on Him... Psalm 9:10

And those who know your name put their trust in you,

for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psalm 9:10 ESV

To know in the Hebrew... is to sense...

knowledge gained by the senses... (Theological Wordbook of the OT)

We can't see... touch... hear... God physically...

but spiritually... we sense Him in many ways...

Recognizing Him in creation...

Hearing Him in His Word...

Feeling His presence through His Spirit...

But all this begins... with knowing... sensing... He Is...

Once we know He Is...

we then begin putting trust in His name... His character...

and we discover... He never forsakes... those who seek Him...

The more we know... the more we trust...

the more we lean on Him...

How have you sensed Him in your life...?

fifteen days...

Fifteen days... till Christmas...
This morning I realized things I haven't yet done this year...
things done in the past... by this time...
No Nativity scene set out...
The Advent wreath with Mary riding the donkey round and round... a candle for each counting-down-day... still in its box...

Resting in where He leads this year...

Seeking Him... the heart of the Season...
not wanting anything... to distract... steal joy... or... peace...

He came to proclaim the Father...
He came in the Spirit of the Lord...

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,

and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,

the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,

the Spirit of counsel and might,

the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.

And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see,

or decide disputes by what his ears hear...

Isaiah 11:1-3 ESV

Jesus's picture of the Father painted so clearly...

because the Spirit... rested on Him...

Spirit... the very Breath of God...

surrounded... rested on... infused...

the Son...

Spirit... another word meaning essence... character...

a revelation Word...

spirit... an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms... a supernatural being or essence... soul... temper or disposition of mind or outlook especially when vigorous or animated... the immaterial intelligent or sentient part of a person... the activating or essential principle influencing a person...

---Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Ed.)

Jesus came with Father God's Spirit on Him...
His Being...
His temper...
intelligence...
principles...

And [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.

And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the

Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the

prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll

and found the place where it was written,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me

to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight

to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the 

attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue

were fixed on him. And he began to say to them,

"Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Luke 4:16-21 ESV

The whole essence of God...
Father... Son... Spirit...
is for freedom...
restoration...
redemption...
healing...
of His people...
His creation...

Jesus came bearing God the Father's soul...
a soul willing to die... for His people...

Lord... Your love that empties Self...

and dies to save...

help me to understand it more clearly...

help me know You more intimately...

help me to know Your love... for... me...

Wheat among weeds...

The hard living as wheat among weeds... is where Jesus lived too...

Some disciples grumbled at His Word... I am the Bread of Life...
He said...

"Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see

the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.

The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some of you who do not believe."

(For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were

who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

John 6:61-64 ESV

Jesus let both Believers and unbelievers follow Him...
but eventually He said something offensive...
the offended... the weeds... stopped following...

Jesus dealt with rejection... just as we do...
those who try to follow His Word and His Way...

He knows how hard it is to be Wheat among weeds...
He knows the wheat from the weeds...

Find comfort and peace...
in the fact that He knows...

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.

I do not give to you as the world gives.

Do not let your hearts be troubled

and do not be afraid. ..." ---Jesus

John 14:27

the joy of knowing... He's the Rock...

I've had some joy today... in a day filled with many and varied things...

Some things accomplished... some still undone...

But an underlying joy... defined the day...

Receiving reminders... that He is the Rock...

"The Rock, his work is perfect,

for all his ways are justice.

A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,

just and upright is he. ..."

Deuteronomy 32:2 ESV

His Word... a firm place to stand... even when things feel unsure...

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them

will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and

beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been

founded on the rock. ..." ---Jesus

Matthew 7:24-25 ESV

Joy in knowing He's the One... holding all things together...

And he is before all things,

and in him all things hold together.

Colossians 1:17 ESV

Yes... today I am finding myself joyful... and grateful... knowing He is the Rock...

do you know this love...?

A hymn from Sunday worship...
a partial stanza...
caught my attention...

...love so amazing

love so divine

demands my soul,

my life, my all...

A love so amazing... it demands... soul... life... all...

Do you know this love...?

This is the love... that makes disciples...

This is the love... that inspires one... to take his cross... and follow...

This is the love... that gives us eyes to see... past ourselves... 

An amazing love...

This is love: not that we loved God,

but that he loved us and sent his Son

as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:10

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:

While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

Do you know this love...?

I've had a glimpse... 

a sight with which He captured my heart...

compelling me... 

to follow Him...

give Him... as best I can...

my life...

my soul...

my all...

Do you know... this... love...?

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be still... and know...

The need to know His holiness... and who we are before Him... reminds me...

He calls us... into His presence... to be still and know... His holiness...

"Be still and know that I am God.

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted on earth!"

Psalm 46:10 ESV

I challenge you today... myself too...

Be still...

This morning... as I asked for a Word today... He directed me to Psalm 65...

Grab your Bible...

perhaps your journal... a pen...

and find a quiet place... to sit...

Ask for your own Word...

or open to Psalm 65...

Sit... read... meditate...

in His presence...

for thirty minutes...

Be still... and know...

Note... 

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