The Better Part, week #20

 

This week's FB posts...

The Better Part, Day #119:

 

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Joh 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Joh 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

Joh 10:30 I and the Father are one." 

 

 

My work, like a lot of others, is being crippled by the twin devils of "Everyone wants one" but "nobody wants to work". A tale about our business came to me today that made me despair of things getting right again without out whole economy going down the tubes first. So I paused and prayed- and the Spirit lent me the words- "Lord, if this is this bad, if it's all coming crashing down, You're still in control. If it's not that bad, You're still in control." Despair over.

 

 

 

The Better Part, Day #120:

 

A little different today, but here we go: Today, I asked, "How am I to do my job as though for Jesus, when I know Jesus wouldn't be this stupid, this greedy, or this cheap?"

Answer:

 

Mat 3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

Mat 3:14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

Mat 3:15 But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented. 

 

Let it be so for now...

 

 

 

The Better Part, Day #121:

 

So keep on moving, keep on speaking

Keep on turning my eyes to see what You see

I am listening, I am learning I am Yours

You find me in the depths

You take me to the heights

Just to tell me that Your love

Will never ever, ever change

You’re with me in the wind

You’re faithful in the fire

You keep coming after me

         -Austin Stone Worship, You Keep Coming After Me

 

As you may have noticed, this hasn't been a very productive "Better Part" week. And today it really bothered me. I was searching and searching for something, and it just wasn't there. Then, as Church began, they sang this song for the first time, and once again I realized I was flipping things to where I do the work and God just stands there. I needed to let go before I saw my eyes were turned in the wrong direction. I thought I was searching after God, and He was coming after me.