Re: [TruthTalk] Trapped in the Flag

[Lance Muir]

John, John, John........It would seem that the Spirit of God is active in bringing you to reconsider some things recently and, you have been gracious enough to have spoken to us on TT concerning them. Thank you so very much, brother.   Lance the occasionally attentive..  ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 03, 2004 23:30 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Trapped in the Flag I have been listening to N.T. Wright's Romans in a Week.  Awesome in many respects.   With my decision last night about just how much time I have waisted when I could have been in thought or study with the Message or in prayer and worship  with Him  --   well, I am ashamed of myself.   When I work, I don't talk and I don't like to talk.   I have things to do and little tiny fractions to remember  --  so I listen to the radio; first Rush and then Hannity.   And to what eternal good?   Atkins Diet has a two week period it calls "induction."   I am putting myself on the induction diet  with the Spirit for a couple of weeks.  No nothing but things of the Spirit ....... including this forum.    If it ( a particular post) is not unifying and uplifting,  Induction will force me to delete.   If I can't be the same (unifying and uplifting), well  .......... well nothing !!   I can  --  there is no alternative.   Some treat "peace" as a lure of sorts    ---    me?   I really want it to be an extension of who I am inside.    Another step to another level.   That is what this holy life is all about, isn't it?   Constantly moving toward God  --  even when it looks like we are headed in a different direction.    How so?   Well, in my case, those few steps backwards give me brace for a fast start to the next step.  It's like crouching before jumping.   At some point in the crouch, it looks as if you are going to lay down when, in fact, the every opposite is about to happen.  When I sin, when I rant and rave, when I act out my selfishness  --  it eventually puts me in mind of just how much further a race I have to run.   Out of that "set back" grows a determination that gives opportunity to another growth spurt.  And all of it, the good, the bad and the ugly, is in and because of the Lord.   Amen.   John The Dim Wit