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Conversation # 91: The Danger of Me

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ME:

Lord I’ve had enough.

I’m up to here with this.

No one is listening anyway.

I’m done.

GOD:

I’ll decide when you’re done.

ME:

No, listen to me … I’m weary.

I’m weak.

Hear me out … I can’t do this anymore.

GOD:

Focus on these words:

  • Endurance
  • Persistence
  • Belief

ME:

Lord please, I’m having trouble hearing that.

GOD:

My Truth leads to your peace.
Use the faith I gave you.

 

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I don’t know if you’ve been at this (above) spot, but I’ve visited here too many times.

This is a place where I’ve convinced myself that God isn’t paying attention to my situation.

Because if God were paying attention, I wouldn’t be in this mess (right?).

I measure advancement by wins. I don’t like losing. A loss means I didn’t win. Losing means I must have made some errors, some mistakes.

Losing is undeniable evidence that God is neglecting me (right?).

Did I say this? “I evaluate success by my wins.”

But what if I’m captivated by a lie?

What if God is trying to offer me a lesson in:
Endurance or
Perseverance or
Courage?

What if what God is trying to achieve in me a skill of faith?

Honestly, I don’t know if I can hear this idea because I’ve heard so many times that if God is truly with me everything will be sugar and spice.

How do I get to the place where I stop whining?

How do I get to the place where I’m free from the mud and muck of dependence on reasons and my five senses?

In more confident moments, it’s my guess that God is answering my prayer for maturity.

I do want to grow up. If I quit now, I’ll never grow up.

How do you see it?

What have I missed that’s right in front of me?

Thanks for listening to Lee’s Nite Radio.

 

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Bonus Music: TobyMac Speak Life

 

What’s Your Passion? How I Discovered Mine

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Follow Him

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I followed him around.

I think I finally figured out his passion.

 

It happened when he spotted a man blind from birth.

He took the man’s hand and led him away from the crowd.

They knelt.

Jesus scooped up a small amount of dirt, cupped it in his hand, spit in it, dipped two fingers into the mixture, and rubbed it on the blind beggar’s eyelids.

Then, he told the man to go and wash it off at the Pool of Siloam.

The man did what he was told.

After that he cried out, “I can see!”

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It happened as his disciples observed a Canaanite woman rush toward Jesus. “Lord please,” she begged, “have mercy on my daughter!”

He didn’t say anything to her.

His disciples wanted to move her along.

Again she begged, “Lord help me!”

He looked into her eyes and said, “It isn’t right to give the children’s bread to the dogs.”

She looked into his eyes and said, “But Lord even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.”

“Such faith!” He smiled. “Go home your daughter is well.”

 

It happened when he entered Jericho and saw the rich tax collector Zacchaeus watching him from a sycamore tree.

Jesus said, “Come down and take me to your house.”

Zacchaeus did.

The crowd was hysterical.

Yet, Jesus’ kindness changed Zacchaeus then and forever.

Your Passion

I’ve come to realize Jesus’ passion is people.

  • You
  • Me
  • Others

I’ve come to realize my passion is Jesus.

What’s your passion?

 

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There are so many stories that provide evidence to remove our doubt.

Are we paying attention?

I hope so.

God’s paasion for you and me is real.

Discover this for yourself.

Thanks for listening to Lee’s Nite Radio.

 

Bonus Song:

Mighty to Save

 

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What’s Life About? A-B-C (part c)

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What’s going on in your world?

How do you have it figured out?

 

 

 

Resisting Lies

Well the fact is someone doesn’t want you to figure it out, right?

Yet the truth is (always) available.

 

Accepting Truth

There’s a place in your Bible, it comes toward the end of John 6, where people come to Jesus and ask,

  • “What’s going on?”
  • “What does God expect of us?”
  • “What does God want us to do?”

Jesus doesn’t play games with them, he tells them straight up,

“This is what God wants you to do: Believe in the one he sent.”

 

Resisting Lies

Okay, so I’m fooling myself if I’m trying to resolve whom it is that God sent.

It says clearly in an earlier chapter from John 3 that God sent His only Son—Jesus.

 

Accepting Truth

There is nothing for me to debate or take issue with.

I’m hurting myself and wasting my time if I somehow reason there might be someone else God sent.

Or that the Bible is lying to me.

God didn’t send anyone else …

God sent Jesus.

 

You Choose

So, what have I missed?

What do you say?

How do you have it put together?

What ‘s going on in this world?

 

I say life is about putting faith in the one God sent:

Jesus.

 

Bonus Song:

Jesus I Need You

 

Book:

What’s Life About?

 

 

 

 

 

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