• About

WayOutWise

~ a collection of thoughts from the country

WayOutWise

Category Archives: God’s love

Brrrr

10 Thursday Feb 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in fear, God's love, love, snow

≈ 2 Comments

That has to be one of the more compelling titles I’ve ever written.
I drove to work on Tuesday in 2 wheel drive at normal speeds because there was no ice.  The TV stations don’t always help and don’t always report very accurately.  Tuesday morning, Channel 8 was reporting a rollover wreck at 287 and 2264.  Hello?  That happens 6 times a year; summer, winter, spring and fall, daylight or dark.
I heard the roads around Decatur were treacherous.  Heck, I couldn’t spin my tires anywhere and I like going in circles as much as the next guy.

The deal with Michael Young is looking a little ugly.  I hate to see that right now but, it’s business.
I’ve never met Wayne Jacobsen and yet he has written a book about me.  Here’s a segment I’m going to be sharing in 2 Bible studies I’m doing soon.  “The motives of conformity do not produce intimacy.  This is where organized religion so often gets it backward, and why so many people in the pews remain so distant from God and so unchanged in their character.  We think conformity to God’s ways will lead us closer to him, when the opposite is true.  If we focus on our own fears and performance, he will seem more distant.  It is only by living in the security of God’s affection that he is able to transform us.”  He Love Me, p. 80
He goes on to talk about love being stronger than fear.  In Psalm 111:10 we are told that fear is the beginning of wisdom.  I believe this is true because I believe that people who do not strive to know God, whether they go to church or not, may one day know his wrath.  (Please know that isn’t a judgment, that is my belief.  I might be wrong and find out that God isn’t punishing anyone and that’s His call to make and no skin off my back.  As much as He’s put up with from me, I’m just tickled pink I get to keep learning how much He loves me each day.)  While fear may be the beginning of wisdom, John says in I John 4 that perfect love drives out fear.  If I really love God I don’t have to fear God because there is no fear in love.  I take it to mean that our walk with God is a journey that started with understanding His power and growing into a more and more loving relationship with Him day by day.
I have a desire to love God more, to know Him intimately, to live in His love and to glorify Him in all that I do.

Tvar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Grace and peace to you.
Tvar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

A Day of Levity

04 Friday Feb 2011

Posted by Seeking Peace in ACU, God's love, Super Bowl

≈ Leave a comment

Enough of the wrestling for one week.
Monday was a great day.  I had lunch with 2 of my brothers that I think so highly of and that I constantly benefit from by seeing how God is working in their life and the lives of others.  It was also a great day because a very good friend called to ask me about something he is wrestling with and I know God spoke through me using some of the transformation I have been through to lay something on my brother’s heart.  Glory to God.
Monday was also the day I came up with a plan to strike back at Jerry Jones and I encourage everyone to join me.  Instead of spending $200 or more to stand outside Jerryworld to watch the Super Bowl, let’s get everyone we know to put our TV’s in a window and stand in our yards and watch it for free!  What do you think?
I’m writing this on Monday afternoon (yes, there are some things I do in advance) and very wintry weather is expected overnight and into tomorrow.  3-5 inches of snow are possible with sleet and ice likely.  Let’s see what the end result looks like.
I’m finding more interesting stuff on visitors from my blog.  On Monday, I had a visitor from Brazil and Switzerland and two people accessing it from their Blackberry.  I’m not sure what that means but I’m fascinated by it all the same.
Have you ever played with the fish on my blog?  Scroll down and on the right hand column you will see fish swimming around.  You can click with your mouse and leave fish food for them to eat.  I spend hours each day just playing with them.  (Not really.)
ACU closed school on Tuesday and Wednesday  They never did that when I was out there.  The story that went around when I was in school is that ACU wouldn’t call off a day of classes until Jesus returned.  Some people I knew back in the day called the radio and TV stations one night telling them ACU would be closed.  The media outlets announced it then came back later saying it was a mistake.  I heard one of the people who was doing the prank calling called back saying he was one of the Deans when someone at the TV station told him that they knew the Dean personally and were recording the call.  That ended the fun until 2 years later when the Dean met with the guy doing the calling and a friend who was there that night egging it on and began relaying the story to them because it was again snowing outside but the Dean apparently didn’t know he was talking to the culprits.  The egging on friend almost choked trying to suppress his laughter.  At least that’s how I heard the story.
I heard a guy at breakfast at the Whistle Stop on Thursday morning, while looking at the window at someone having trouble driving on the ice, say “why are these people even out?”  Maybe he lives at the restaurant but I’m assuming he “got out” to come get his coffee.
Here’s a mini-rant.  Most of us pay our electric and gas bills and get no say in how much we pay so why does ERCOT decide there isn’t enough of it to go around and just start shutting us down?  Sure, I won’t have to pay for what I don’t use but it’s the principle of the thing.  Why can’t I just tell ERCOT there isn’t enough money to go around and I’ll pay them 95% of the electric bill?  It’s really not the money that bothers me, it’s the lack of planning.  Of course, I know little about all of that stuff so I do not know of what I speak other than I don’t think it’s a good idea to go around cutting off people’s electricity when you have failed to have a plan in place.  OK, I’ll quit rambling about something I don’t know anything about.
It’s been a hard week emotionally.  I’ll have at least one of my kids with me this weekend and that will surely lift my spirits, give me a few laughs and leave me in wonder of how special they are.
Oh, by the way, I’m not going to stand outside and watch the Super Bowl.  That would be silly.

I’ll leave you with this.  God’s love is so strong for me that He was willing to let me come and live on this earth, a place of seasons, seasons of joy, seasons of hope, seasons of pain, seasons of suffering, with full faith in me to love Him so much that I would be a light in the darkness.  He isn’t overprotective.  He isn’t scared.  He is strong and bold and wanting to fill me up with His love so that it overflows in me to others who need to experience it.  He loves me so much that He made a path for me to be with Him for eternity, He has my inheritance planned and it is more than I can imagine.

Grace and peace to you.

Evar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

Bang, Bang

17 Friday Dec 2010

Posted by Seeking Peace in bird hunting, Brennan Manning, dogs, God's love, quail

≈ Leave a comment

I had the opportunity to go bird hunting this week and thoroughly enjoyed my time in the field.  I wished we would have seen more birds and that the wind wasn’t blowing so hard but we can always hope for perfect days, can’t we?  It was good to work behind dogs again, to hear the rise of a covey of quail and to see a dog retrieve a downed bird.  Those days remind me of days gone by and places hunted in my past and wonderful memories of dogs and hunting partners, of smart-aleck comments and jibes…of good times gone and good times to come.

Ivar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
I’m reading a new book about God’s love for me.  It’s great, very helpful in my walk right now and full of stuff I’ll share eventually.  I got hooked on this quote the other day in my reading…
“If we take all the goodness, wisdom and compassion of the best mothers and fathers who have ever lived, they would only be a faint shadow of the love and mercy in the heart of the redeeming God.”  – Brennan Manning

Ivar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
God loves me so much and yet I have had a hard time accepting it, free and unconditional.  I’m a work in progress but I’m getting glimpses of how God loves me and accepts me as I am, made in His image.  I have a hope for very, very bright days ahead.

Ivar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Grace and peace to you.
Ivar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

Fighting Disappointment

15 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by Seeking Peace in disappointment, God's love, grace

≈ 1 Comment

An interesting weekend it was.  I spent some time with old friends and the topic of disappointment was prevalent in each conversation…one that was full of pain, another that was full of hope.  Trying to do what people wanted me to do has often left me tired, frustrated, mad and longing for something different while the fear of disappointing them has left me exhausted and often wanting to be isolated.  It’s a fear that has played to my programming that says my performance is what matters and if I don’t perform to expectations, I lose.  I lose their love, friendship, respect, status.  The kicker is, I’ve rolled that over to my relationship with God too.

Looking at myself, the things that disappoint me are things that don’t happen in my image of they way it should be.  The Longhorns football season, the World Series, the girl who wouldn’t go out with me in college, the friend who didn’t go with me when I wanted them to.  Disappointment comes when things don’t match the way I see it and then I cast that on to someone else.  The Longhorns and Rangers didn’t want to lose, the girl had her eyes on someone else she felt was a better match, the friend had another option that was more in line with what he wanted.  When I disappoint someone, it’s not because I did something wrong as much as it is that their desire and expectation is something different than my own.  Yet, when I know I have caused disappointment, the fear and pain of losing my standing with them, of letting them down, of causing pain stays with me.  For days.  For weeks.  For years.

A dear friend told me the other day that God doesn’t get disappointed.  He knows the number of hairs on my head.  He knows me inside and out and better than I know myself.  He has no misconceptions about me, no beliefs about me that aren’t true.  And, even though I don’t always do what His will for me is, He continues to love me and continues to be open to me coming back to His hope and direction for me.  When I choose something that pulls me away from Him, he isn’t disappointed but stable.  My status with God doesn’t drop.  I don’t have to try harder, I don’t have to start over.  He just keeps loving me as I am.

At least that’s what my friend told me.

I’m going to try to begin living in that better.  I’m going to try and quit worrying so much about disappointing people that I push them away.  I’m going to try and start living at peace with my decisions and quit realize that grown ups are grown up and can deal with their own feelings.  I’m going to try and remember that God loves me as I am, not as He imagines me being or as I imagine myself…just as I am.  I’m going to try.

Grace and peace to you.
Avar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}
Avar gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src='” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-12356560-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}

Newer posts →

Recent Posts

  • So Many Questions
  • Leaving Fear Behind
  • Heartbreak
  • Taking the FirstStep
  • Last Night

Archives

Categories

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 139 other subscribers

Search WayOutWise

Blogs I Follow

Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
Unknown's avatar
  • Suburban Dad's avatar
  • Unknown's avatar
  • Makenna Karas's avatar
  • Thomas M. Watt's avatar
  • Chick Heaven's avatar
  • Edmark M. Law's avatar
  • Kunal Rane's avatar
  • Unknown's avatar
  • Unknown's avatar
  • Don Merritt's avatar

WayOutWise Random Thoughts

Tweets by wayoutwise

What I Talk About

advice anger anxiety baseball bitterness children choices Christ Christ-likeness Christlikeness conflict darkness death decisions dreams evil faith Fear forgiveness freedom friends future God God's eyes God's presence grace grateful Gratefulness gratefulness project Happiness help holding me up hope hurt hurting Jesus job journey joy kids lament life light listen lost love mercy Newtown pain patience peace politics power prayer presence present moment random thoughts relationships rest scared scars shame silence strength struggle suffering thankful thankfulness Thanksgiving The Journey tragedy trust waiting work wounds

Blog at WordPress.com.

Site Title

BeautyBeyondBones

Interim Ministry Partners

Buckshots

Observations on just about everything

Christian INTP

Growing towards God as an Introvert

Douglas Young

Changing the Face of Conflict

Matthew Fray

Author and Relationship Coach

giorge thomas

writer

Business and Life Leadership

Do the Right Thing. Make a Difference.

The Word Of God

Unleashing the Power of Scripture Memorization

Cindy's Siesta

Seeking God through the study of his Word

THE RIVER WALK

Daily Thoughts and Meditations as we journey together with our Lord.

The Official Colonel Sanders Podcast

An All American Rags to Chickens Story

Hope Blooms in Darkness

Christianity Matters

A Gospel-Centered Perspective On All Things Christian

lostcompanion

Alcoholism

Unshakable Hope

"All of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain." (Hebrews 12:27)

follow the light

Sharing God's Light

Chris Martin Writes

Life Out of the Box

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • WayOutWise
    • Join 139 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • WayOutWise
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar