Who, what, how

Who were you before Christ entered your life?

What would you have become if He had not come into your heart and changed your life?

Think of what your character and personality would be like right now, if you had not chosen Him over the world.

Are you still that same person that you were 2 years ago?

Or 1 year ago?

What about last month?

Are you walking in mediocrity?
Or are you continuously being transformed by the renewing of your mind?

Who were you and
What are you going to be?

"Love is standing up and speaking the truth. Love isn't tolerance - thats not love. Love is not tolerance. People wanna teach you that, love is to tolerate, theres many ways to God, theres many other expressions, no no no no no. Love is loyalty to His heart, to His truth, love is humility.

What He is doing, He is the potter and you are the clay, is He is putting pressure on your life. I often get that picture, I'm that lump of clay, you know, I'm that big blob of clay and He is the potter, and I feel the hand of the potter, and sometimes its just pressure, do you know what I'm talking about? Like pressure? Its the pain in your life. Its the unfulfilled desire in your life, its the longings that you have, its the misunderstandings. I mean, being misunderstood by your peers, by your parents or your siblings, thats the pressure, you know what I'm saying? We all have a strategic path of pressure that the Lord Himself, as the potter, is taking us down. And He's molding us, and He's going, just yield to My hand, I'm forming you, and I'm fashioning you in the image of love.

You are caught up in something so much bigger, so much bigger! When I began at a very young age to sort of grasp these ideas, or at least try to knock on that door, small things begin to get very small, you know what I'm talking about? You know the things that preoccupy your mind, like, some of it is good, but it just preoccupies your mind. Like, do they really understand me - or, am I really ever gonna be known, or who's really ever gonna love me? These are real questions that are in our heart. Or am I beautiful, or am I gonna be great one day, all these longings that come up into our hearts. But whenever you start to get divine perspective, and you realise that you are caught up in something so. Much. Bigger. than these momentary light afflictions, that pressure of the potter, you see that its working for you an eternal weight of glory, because remember, you're in the womb of tomorrow. You haven't, you barely barely barely just begun.

This is your one chance to respond in love. You know the one thing that God doesn't have is your voluntary love. Your voluntary affection. Your voluntary love. The one thing that He doesn't have is your free will saying yes to Him. Not just at salvation, but every day, in every decision that you make. Do you know, that that is the one thing He wants?

You are not of this world. You are not of this world. You are not of this world. You are not of this world, so why are you caught up in the world? You are not of this world, so why are we so weighed down by the cares of this life?

He looks right through your exterior, right into the core reality of who you are, and He measures you by your heart - He measures you by your heart. You may say, you know, I'm not that talented, I'm not that beautiful, I may get overlooked all the time, I'm not that rich, I don't have a chance in life, I don't have a good family, I have hard circumstances, you don't understand, I can't be great - The Lord says you can be eternally great.

It doesn't matter how much success you attain in this life - Did you learn to love? Did you learn to love? Did you learn to love?"

Misty Edwards, The Search for Revelance

bitter waters

when moses went into desert shur, he met with
bitter waters
moses, what are we to drink?
but God led moses to cast the wood into
bitter waters were made sweet

jericho was a cursed land
the cost of laying its foundations, a firstborn son
jericho, the appearance of having it all but
its ground barren, and the water
oh, bitter waters
bitter waters
elisha, what shall we do?

a new bowl, said elisha, cast salt therein
went to the spring and poured it in
thus saith the Lord, these waters are healed
no more death, nor barren land
no more
bitter waters

the wood and the salt,
took away the bitterness,
but can these bitter waters be made sweet with salt or wood
if i myself am supposed to be
the salt and light of the world?

for of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh
these bitter waters
will be made streams
of living waters
bitter waters, no more

Exodus 15:22-25, Joshua 6:26, 2 Kings 2:19-22, Matthew 5:13-14, Luke 6:45, John 7:38

ISCF today, Ms. Ko mentioned that if a person has fresh waters in them, words that bring life would come out of them - but bitter waters, would bring bitterness. The phrase, 'bitter waters' caught my attention. Bitter waters. It is mentioned 2 times in the Bible, where unproductive waters (sometimes referred to as bitter waters) were made sweet. God made the bitter waters sweet.. Its like when a person comes to know Christ, his bitter waters are made sweet. I love that. I love seeing bitter waters made sweet. There is a difference between bitter waters and sweet waters flowing from within, I should know, more than most - Bitter waters poison the soul and, like the land of Jericho, brings death and barrenness. There is no life in bitter waters.

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Revelations 22:17

went too far, too fast
left my sense in the abyss of
thinking the World would make more sense than the Word

the proverb said to guard your heart
but I let my wellspring of life lead to other channels
dug my own cisterns, did I not know that
broken cisterns cannot hold water?
but He knows the way that I take
and

I forget there is redemption in high places
a love as strong as death, a jealousy
as unyielding as the grave
burns like a blazing fire, this mighty flame

brings me to my knees at the reality of
what God did when
He took me into His banquet hall
put a banner over me, called out love

Peter was right to plead
"Save yourselves from this corrupt generation"

Proverbs 4:23, Jeremiah 3:13, Job 23:10, Song of Songs 8:6/2:4, Acts 2:40

My soul resonates.

Resurrection Sunday

Photo source// Gregory Rendell

"For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."

(Romans 6:5)

The cross represents Death - Death to sin and the law.
The resurrection represents Life - a new life brought about by the abounding grace and love of the Son.

We are covered by His blood. Our old selves have died along with Christ on the cross, and as He resurrected, so have we.

"But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God,
you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification,
and the outcome, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Romans 6:22-23)

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

(Romans 5:6-8)

God's love is written all over the Bible.