What Is Your Will In Christ?

In a dark and threatening hour many who know God and even some who just know of Him will look to Him remembering that He's there. Some will cry out in the agony of their spirit hoping desperately for God's intervention, others in hopeful exploration - just hoping that He may be real and able to meet some urgent need. Some may accuse God of not answering and others may discount Him entirely if they don't receive the desperately needed answer, when the responsible party - the truth of the matter, may well live within our own skin...  When we find ourselves asking God for anything it may be good to keep a few things in mind. For instance it may be one thing to ask an intimate friend for a large investment of themselves in a moment of our personal desperation and an entirely different thing to ask the same from a stranger. It may be one thing to call on a party to honor a covenant or contract that they've entered into with us and an entirely different thing to call on a par

I didn't intend to post this, but two words came to me simultaneously as I finished writing it. I've never heard or read the first, or known them in any way together, so I looked them both up. After doing so, I understood that there was something worthy here. I sometimes write just to organize my thoughts - to build an expression or offering from my heart to the Lord without posting them. The definitions of those two words are in the closing...  I've discovered a love that far exceeds the emission of humanity and I dwell in the soothing waters of its source. To succumb to the draw of any other would be the tragedy of settling for poverty, for I dwell in the intended Living Water that brings new life continually. Lord, You draw the people to yourself by the essence of Your perfect character and person. It's by Your hand that they are rescued and by the price of Your own suffering that they are brought to redemption. No one is as selfless or as generous as You. You redeem