...a note of encouragement...
If you are anything like me I often find myself stuck trying to figure out what God wants me to do, which doors to walk through, things to say, places to go to, etc., etc.
I was reading in a devotional book compiled by Jim Branch and came across this excerpt that I thought I'd share. It's a bit long but worth the read.
"I am not sure exactly what all I think we mean when we say that we are made in the image of God. But part of it, I believe, is that the calling voice of God is sounding out in the caves and caverns deep beneath the soil of our souls. And it is by obeying this call we learn who we truly are and what we can become.
So if I do not seem to hear him speak from outside, and if there does not seem to be any message from the sky, then I must listen to the voice that is within me. For that voice, too, is the purposeful, calling voice of God to us.
Not many of us have enough confidence in ourselves to listen to that whispering voice that comes from within. Most of the time, we do not even hear it. But it doesn’t matter because we wouldn’t trust it. We cannot believe that this inner voice is capable of leading us due north.
We seek advice from friends and professionals, disc jockeys and Dear Abbys. We put out a fleece. We flip coins. We take aptitude tests. We do everything but believe that we could possibly have the answers deep within.
The message of Paul in this place is that calling indded comes in the lives fo the unlikely and the “foolish.” You think you are unlikely; well you’re not. You have difficulty believing that God could do great things in you; well, he wouldn’t.
Now if God can take a tiny seed and, in the process of giving it his life, endow it with a knowledge of what it is supposed to be; if he can give it the purpose and strength and fruitfulness to not only accomplish it all, but to perpetuate itself as well; and if he can give it an inner calendar to tell it when all of this is supposed to be done, why is it so hard to believe he has done the same for our hearts?
Since he has done this for tomatoes and thistles and beans and dandelions, it shouldn’t stretch our credibility so much to believe that his image in us, the image inherent in the life he gives to each of us, is calling us to be.
The trick is to hear the voice, to believe it, and to trust it."
See You at the House
By Bob Benson
I just really thought this was powerful and so I wanted to share it with y'all.
I was reading in a devotional book compiled by Jim Branch and came across this excerpt that I thought I'd share. It's a bit long but worth the read.
"I am not sure exactly what all I think we mean when we say that we are made in the image of God. But part of it, I believe, is that the calling voice of God is sounding out in the caves and caverns deep beneath the soil of our souls. And it is by obeying this call we learn who we truly are and what we can become.
So if I do not seem to hear him speak from outside, and if there does not seem to be any message from the sky, then I must listen to the voice that is within me. For that voice, too, is the purposeful, calling voice of God to us.
Not many of us have enough confidence in ourselves to listen to that whispering voice that comes from within. Most of the time, we do not even hear it. But it doesn’t matter because we wouldn’t trust it. We cannot believe that this inner voice is capable of leading us due north.
We seek advice from friends and professionals, disc jockeys and Dear Abbys. We put out a fleece. We flip coins. We take aptitude tests. We do everything but believe that we could possibly have the answers deep within.
The message of Paul in this place is that calling indded comes in the lives fo the unlikely and the “foolish.” You think you are unlikely; well you’re not. You have difficulty believing that God could do great things in you; well, he wouldn’t.
Now if God can take a tiny seed and, in the process of giving it his life, endow it with a knowledge of what it is supposed to be; if he can give it the purpose and strength and fruitfulness to not only accomplish it all, but to perpetuate itself as well; and if he can give it an inner calendar to tell it when all of this is supposed to be done, why is it so hard to believe he has done the same for our hearts?
Since he has done this for tomatoes and thistles and beans and dandelions, it shouldn’t stretch our credibility so much to believe that his image in us, the image inherent in the life he gives to each of us, is calling us to be.
The trick is to hear the voice, to believe it, and to trust it."
See You at the House
By Bob Benson
I just really thought this was powerful and so I wanted to share it with y'all.
posted by Bradley Hasemeyer at 12:32:00 PM
5 Comments:
BTH: thanks for the clip from the 'blue book'. Just read it recently myself. Don't know of anyone who hasn't, isn't, or won't be in need of that encouraging info. Awesome. 'M'
I have the Blue Book and love it also. I was wondering if you knew how to order more? Mine was given to me as a gift ..I would like to purchase a few for some friends. Do you have any ideas on where I could find it?
Hi, I have a friend who had a blue book like the one you posted about, she got it as a gift and I can not find it on the internet or in any bookstores that I have looked at. If you have any information on where I could find one, I would love it if you would let me know. Thank you!
Hi :) This is Jim's daughter. I have created a facebook group for his books and information on ordering that can be found here. Also, thanks for the love Bradley!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/415929578420771/
Hi :) This is Jim's daughter. I have created a facebook group for his books and information on ordering that can be found here. Also, thanks for the love Bradley!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/415929578420771/
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