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The Fatal Distance

We were part of a small house meeting this week; it was good to be together. During the…

MORNING MUSING November 21, 2011 THE PERIL OF DETACHMENT

This musing is an attempt to focus on an ever present danger stalking us in our Christian walk, specifically the way we can so easily detach truth and various doctrines from Christ Who is the sum of all things.  Probably we have all succumbed to this and abstracted a doctrine such as the truth of justification by faith from the Person of Christ and made it central instead of Him.  When I first attempted to read Oswald Chambers many years ago I could not really get hold of what he was saying at all and I gave up on him!  It was an unusual experience that came from the Lord to my heart that prompted me to take up another of his books several years later, and this time I understood and began to devour everything he wrote!  It is a long time ago and I can scarcely remember any particulars of what I read in all those wonderful books but the over arching thing he taught me, and remains with me, was that it is our relationship with Christ that is the key to everything.  He would not allow any doctrine, no matter how tremendous, to become disconnected from the Person of the Lord Jesus and take on a life of its own.  I remember, that at the time I was absorbed and blessed with Chamber’s writings, the doctrine of receiving a ‘new heart’ was emphasized in the circles of fellowship that I moved in and even then it appeared to me that the idea of receiving this ‘new heart’ (something clearly promised in Jeremiah 31 and Hebrew 8 and 10) was in danger of becoming disconnected in ways from Him Whose heart it is, for there is only one heart in the body of Christ and it is His and we are to share in His life and heart indeed!  We must beware the doctrinal ‘ism’s’ that can so easily come and that rob us of Christ.  

MORNING MUSING December 31, 2008

The last day of the year is upon us.  Apparently, there are psychological reasons why those getting older in years feel time passing so swiftly and in comparison the young feel it passes slowly.  The elderly tend to look backwards and the young forwards and so this result!  But, whatever our experience might have been, where have we been living through 2008? 

 

 

MORNING MUSING 27TH MAY 2008

I have been continuing to reflect on some current events happening in the church scene of today.  I mentioned a little about them a couple of weeks back.  I have had several responses to what I wrote and the usual enthusiasm on the part of some emerges and deep reservation’s in other people threatens to disturb unity between them.  My daily reading in John’s Gospel has been timely and could be helpful.  The Jews challenged Jesus concerning His ministry and the manner in which He answered them is full of instruction.  John’s gospel chapter five needs to be read at this juncture.  On the Sabbath day Jesus had healed a man, one alone, leaving many others still in their conditions by the pool of Bethesda.

 

 

MORNING MUSING 11th JANUARY 2008

“He came and preached peace”, now that is a wonderful phrase to muse on before the Lord on a cold, wet and dark January morning in England!  It comes from Ephesians chapter two. They are liberating words and most precious.  It is music to the ears that hear it and life to the soul.  In the Bible the word for peace (Shalom) includes much more than the ending of hostilities or maybe the tranquility which results from an end of disturbances.  Added to those meanings is the idea of sitting together and feasting celebrating joyfully with the very ones with whom there had been enmity!  Romans chapter five verse one tells us that ‘we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ’.  Peace has come.  Peace with God, with whom we were formerly inveterate enemies.