Your God is too Safe

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Your God is Too Safe
Mark Buchanan

ISBN:1576737748


"We go to Bible college, hoping that will inoculate us against spiritual languor, will create in us robust faith. But many theolgoical schools and bible college are built on borderlands. There is the danger in such a places that we will learn much more about God and at the same time grow distant from God; we will study the intricacies of doctrine, but lose passion; we will become eloquent at God talk, but cease talking to God." p.21

Scripture: When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the moutain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die." Ex 20:18-19

"We long for hearsay about God, but do not ourselves want to hear God say anything. We want someone else to handle the fire, to risk death or deforming or deafening in the encounter with the living God...to find someone who will keep God afar, make God safe."

I guess the check point for an intercessor is this, are you waiting on God or are you making God wait? Seriously, I have to admit that I am only making Him waiting right now. It's scary. What am I withholding? Of course you there is much blessing and much joy being in the mountain top and bring down all sort of blessing to people around you, I have no problem with this. But how many time in did the people of Israel at the time really say we will listen? Most of the time when you are the intercessor, you are the one to blame. Being the one to blame is not the wrose, having other turning around and condemn you are the wrost. I am stuck in this borderland, I can't go back to my old self, but yet I am strgguling to move forward. People is not the one I afraid the most, failing God is the one I felt. Who can bring me to the new land? who can understand, who really care about who I am rather than what I should be? Why am I still making him wait?

Learning to Love - Jason Upton

please return my stereo face ( i)

When I drove home tonight, I find out that my stereo detachable face was stolen, along with my CD packs. No more music for me in the car at least for a while. It's good that the CD in the unit right now is a copy. Tomorrow I have to spend time to take out my stereo in the car, in case the theft come back and break in for the rest of the audio unit. Well, lost is lost. At least my car is fine, don't need to spend money to fix anything. Poor theft, steal nothing valuable. Hope this person finds a way out for this kind of lifestyle. I imagine must be hard, have to stay up so late to steal... anyhow, Bonnie said that after I take out my stereo, I should leave a note "please return my stereo face"... I find that very cute and amusing... maybe I should add, "please return my stereo face, I am praying for you." (^o^ i)

Do you believe?

I can't believe, I have been missing out our church Sunday service for about a month and half already. The past few weeks/months had been a crazy time. I believe my car added somewhat a 15-20k to my mileage meter. I just got a deep sense of hunger for God's touch. His touch is ten thousand time than all the chocolate truffle in the world. Like the movie twister, instead of looking for tornado, I was racing my car down south, east, north, west to places where I hear God's presence. As God said that He wants more of me, I too said to Him, I want more of Him as well. But you know what the funny thing is, He said to me today, " You know Patrick, I know that you desire to be perfect, to be whole, to be healed, but this is really not what I am interested in. All I am interested in is this question: Do you believe that I love you as who you are? Do you really believe that? Do you believe that I believe in you even you are imperfect? I love you not because of who you should be or who you want to be, I love you at who you are. Do you believe that?

I really don't know how to answer this question. I am scare to look into the eyes of Jesus, I am afraid. Help me Jesus, give me courage. I believe Jesus, that when I look into your eyes, I will find love that I never find before, love that will not be find elsewhere. Thank you for your love Lord. Thank you.

Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus

My Personality DNA report?

I have to admit this test only project the personality that you try to project, or the personality that you consciously aware of. I believe if I take it again on a different day, it will not be the same. Anyhow, it was fun to take this kind of test once in a while.