My journey of writing out the word…
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. ESV4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. KJV
In the midst of curating, archiving and gleaning from my years of writing, I realized something.
My Blog Archive needs to be read quite similar to how I approach the Old Testament. They are not to be taken as gospel. Iron sharpens iron, Proverbs ?:? 2 Timothy 3:16-18 and Galatians 6:1-6
Colossians?:? Speaking to one another with psalms hymns and spiritual songs.
I’ve been thrilled at times with the words that have come to me. The desire to share them is immediate. But I’m met with blank stares, and tl;dr’s.
< Pay attention to me😭 > is an auto text on my phone! It’s akin to, l
“Hey! Look what I found when I was walking in the woods today!”
When I was not going to church… I had a smaller circle of family and friends, and this truth I’m realizing today was less visible.
I am now in a church population of 2-300 folks.
I’m unique? I guess so, because I have rarely met a person like me. And folks don’t know what to do with me.
Brennan Manning, “codifying” ABBA’s Child
They need to know how to categorize me. A drawer to put me and feel safe.
Personal Testimony
Revelation 12:11
1 Peter 3:? Clear conscience, always be ready to give a reason
Old Testament Narrative tempered in the light of New Testament, and ‘the whole counsel of God’
Acts?:? Paul ? mentions ‘the whole counsel of God’
Examples of Old Testament stories.
Lot’s Daughters – book ch:vs
Levite and his concubine – Judges
How To Read The Bible for all it’s worth
Quotes from there about how to read each genre
1 Thessalonians 4:9-12
9-10 Next, as regards brotherly love, you don’t need any written instructions. God himself is teaching you to love each other, and you are already extending your love to all the Macedonians. Yet we urge you to have more and more of this love, and to make it your ambition to have no ambition!
11-12 Be busy with your own affairs and do your work yourselves. The result will be a reputation for honesty in the world outside and an honourable independence.
