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MORNING MUSING August 22, 2008

How often we hate to experience delays. Everything must run exactly to our time schedule as promised.  Immediate gratification is commonplace in our day.  So much for which former generations had to wait is almost immediately available to us, sometimes with little effort on our part at all.  I have not read Oswald Chambers for a long time but always remember how often the messages his wife took down in shorthand had headings that involved phrases that were frequently alliterated.

 

 

MORNING MUSING August 4, 2008

How we need perspective, how easily our countenances can become darkened when sometimes we pass through seasons of shadowy uncertainty.  Occasions when confusing and contradictory circumstances muddle our history and the path becomes obscure.  My morning psalm today was thirty-four, “I sought the Lord, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears.  Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed’. 

 

 

MORNING MUSING July 21, 2008

Surely the devil is the originator of divorce. I mean divorce in the sense of the separation of that which God has joined together, not only the sad fact of divorce between a husband and wife. When Jesus was questioned concerning divorce He took his questioners back to the beginning, how God had constituted things at the outset of creation and then added this memorable phrase, ‘what therefore God has joined together, let not man separate’ (Matt 19v6). This phrase has been much on my mind these days, in a wider context. I am thinking of truth and truths. The way that confusion, error and eventual ruin is often sourced in the fact that things joined in God are often separated and propagated in imbalanced ways by man, sometimes incited by the devil or simply by ignorance. Consider death (the cross) and life (the resurrection), in God they are joined together inseparably. They are intimately connected in one whole, if you attempt to separate them a grotesque false image is fashioned.