BigFatOofta

hello misunderstanding. rejection. good day, snubbing. resentment. hi, judging. assumptions. you hurt. you don't know me. if you knew me would you think that? does it matter? why should it? why does it? get out of my brain! why do i struggle so? here are some brutally hard yet freeing questions i have had to look in the face lately and the answers to those questions are not exactly "comfortable" or "ideal" but what the Lord has laid on my heart. Questions for third person sarah: *ahem* Dear Sarah, -who is your greatest joy and treasure? is it Jesus or people? -what is your identity? Is it all that You are because of Jesus in you (you believe that the only good you have in yourself is Jesus right?) or what people see you as or ascribe to you? -do you make people and their affirmation and love an idol? -what are your motivations for pursuing people? loving them? -are you willing to love people with the love the Savior has freely and undeservedly bestowe...

There is a growing trend in the Christian body. It's called the spaghetti strainer. As I talk to people, and experience a new season of life, (single to married, and now expecting a child) I have been hearing more and more of the phrases "well, they just are in a different season of life." Or, "we need to meet them where they are at" (often referring to younger people). And, "we like people who aren't our own age but I don't really have anything in common with them and it makes me feel awkward." That is just a beginning summary of the strainer. Essentially, our culture, and now we as the body of Christ embracing our culture (or at least wanting to fit in), has found itself in a place where every age, and every season of life, must be "strained" to fit in the right category. This has been something I have noticed in the general observations of church and personally in my own life. There are several reasons I think that the strainer of...

So...the Lord brought me to Micah 7 this morning...a book in Scripture I haven't read in quite a while. I read it through once, quickly, and it resonated. Read it through again, and resonated more...and then processed with Joshua why it did so and I found myself encouraged. Soooooo I am going to share the passage with whoever you are reading! MICAH 7 Wait for the God of Salvation 1 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. 2 The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. 3 Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. 4The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. (There is...