Thursday, November 16, 2006

unnoticed

If you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time.

Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God! It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty to the glory of God. It takes God's Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable.

~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, November 16

hmm. i want to be unnoticeable, then! but i'm not going to *try* to be unnoticeable in my human effort, its gotta be a work of God. so i'm not cutting off my dreads so i'll be less noticeable! ha! if God want's me to be unnoticed, then no matter what i did or how i dressed or how i wore my hair, i'd still be unnoticed. make sense?

"...all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time. .... yum." may it be so, Lord!

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why the need to defend my hair? becuase some people don't like it. but i'm not trying to please people, i'm trying to please God. and i'm doing that by allowing the person He made me to be to flow free. i'm not gonna squash out what God put in me. and what God put in me is not what churchianity thinks it should be. stand firm, lynnie, stand firm!
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THIS BLOG IS IN NEED OF AN OVERHAUL. there are posts from years back i would not be able to post in good conscience now. i plan to overhaul the blog, and either delete or add a disclaimer to those posts. but that is gonna take time....

The Radical Summons: "Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:13.

"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses." —Thomas Brooks

‎"God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite." --Martin Luther (W.A. 1.183ff)

i will not let You go: "Jacob's sense of his total debility and utter defeat is now the secret of his power with his friendly Vanquisher. God can overthrow all the prowess of the self-reliant, but He cannot resist the earnest entreaty of the helpless." --Albert Barnes

i will not let You go: "Jacob's determination did not flow from his strength, it flowed from his weakness." --Charles Leiter