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I recently told a man who I consider my brother, that I want to live a life again that is dedicated to helping others. That I want to do things that make a difference for my circle and beyond.
I have learned this past year that relationships are what matter. The rest is just wisps of smoke.
I have a clarity these last few days which has been missing for a long while, years even. God is calling, softly and almost unheard, for a Remnant to stand. Pouring yourself out for others is a hard concept, it goes against our nature of self preservation.
If we cannot see, if your circle of influence cannot see, a change due to your efforts and faith, then what are you here for? We have so much to do and precious little time. Some will faint, some will soar. Some have the will, some do not. All will be sorted.
The will to stand up for right, to smite until there is nothing left to the animal even, is something you best get right in your head today.
Tick. Tock.
i looked into this Oswald Chambers, Quite a man. i had never heard of him before these posts.
This wisdom Quote reminds me of something very powerful i just read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and a letter he wrote to his brother in law about the Bible.
i will see if i can copy and paste or write it out and post it (soon.)
Well that was easy, somethings are just meant to be. Consider using this as an article?
February 10, 2012
Here is a quote from a letter that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his theologically liberal brother–in-law regarding what the Bible had come to mean to him
First of all I will confess quite simply – I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. One cannot simply read the Bible like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible, God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to enquire of him. Only if we seek him will he answer us.
Of course it is also possible to read the Bible like any other book — that is to say from the point of view of textual criticism, etc., there is nothing to be said against that. Only that that is not the method which will reveal to us the heart of the Bible, but only the surface, just as we do not grasp the words of someone we love by taking them to bits, but by simply receiving them, so that for days they go on lingering in our minds simply because they are the words of a person we love; and just as these words reveal more and more of the person who said them as we go on, like Mary, “pondering them in our heart,” so it will be with the words of the Bible. Only if we will venture to enter into the words of the Bible — as though in them this God were speaking to us who loves us and does not will to leave us along with our questions — only then shall we learn to rejoice in the Bible.
If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all; it is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New but also in the Old Testament.
And I would like to tell you now quite personally that since I have learnt to read the Bible in this way – and this has not been for so very long – it becomes every day more wonderful to me. I read it in the morning and the evening, often during the day as well, and every day I consider a text which I have chosen for the whole week, and try to sink deeply into it, so as really to hear what it is saying. I know that without this, I could not live properly any longer.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, written in 1936
https://www.providencedenton.org/1068.a-letter-that-dietrich-bonhoeffer-wrote/