What Is Your Will In Christ?

My thoughts humbly offered... It took some years for me to finally come to the understanding that God’s laws and commandments aren't just simply the authoritarian edicts of the endlessly powerful ruler of the universe. He IS the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God, but those laws and commandments all represent something deeper. There's a divine, passionate and holy desire, an omniscient and compassionate goal behind them ... all to our benefit and motivated by love. Amos 5:21-24 (NLT) 21 “I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. 22 I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings. 23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, an endless river of righteous living .” The spirit of our God's laws and commandments present us with an opportunity to attempt ...

We're faced at times with the departure of people that we've known well for all of our lives. For me most recently, it was my precious mother in the summer of last year, so Mother's Day this year provided for a different range of emotion and provoked some personal observation... In the back of our minds we may well know that we'll face their leaving one day even while we share their company in the present - but our thoughts at the time would be not now... not now. For a time pleasant conversation, wise counsel, laughter and tears are all shared in the comfort of present company as we push away any knowledge of their predetermined future. Still, even while we're with them, a fleeting thought from time to time may remind us to take stock of what we have in them while we yet have them ... and then they're gone. What can we say in the presence of the Lord while we face the gaping void of their absence? Do we dare to be resentful or to let our faith falter at t...