2012-04-20

Following The Way…


I am starting (again) today to ask God to give me [maybe it's HIS eyes to see] a chance each "today", to grow in these "Big Ways", in following Jesus' lead to: 

q   listen like he did (actively, using questions if nec.; as my first, initial, default stance, "alive to listen") 

q   be slow to speak, not "not to speak", but considered-ly speaking. I think, after considering this for quite a while, God's agenda is that as his herald (I think that's what he has made me, though at times I am not sure), I should let other people know the (really good) news that Yeshua has been made the "Leader of Humanity" by God, - & I happen to think he's the best choice. Then I am assuming that God will make a chance, & I am praying for a time each day (in a way that really connects properly, & is not "forced"), to tell one of the Yeshua stories he has given me [either one of the hundreds of "Gospel" story-lets which we have in "Mat, Mark, Luke, & John, or one from my life (or another Xian's life) in this time since THE VISIT (I s'pose Acts is recording some of these for us Xians' sake)]. I think these have been told, & passed on to us in order for us to tell to others. I am leaving it up to God, at the moment as to who it is that he wants me to tell that little "pericope/storylet" to. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does today with me in this way. 

q   be slow to anger (or even frustrate, or vex; myself, or others). The apostle Paul's way of explaining something like this character-trait, which I think he saw in Jesus [seen in his interactions with all different kinds of people: demanding (or mouse-y), insincere (or sincere), faithless (or faithful), inteligent (or dim-witted)] was to "be very patient with all men"

God, what sort of way have you given us to walk?  
A new & living way. 
This new way, springs from the new or second Adam who established & (since he did not remain dead after his death, but took life to a new level, he remains to share the enormous inheritance with us & can continue to be &) is our new human culture & new way of life. 
This living way is both our path to tread on[1], & the means by, & style in, which we walk [2]. 
Oh, this way is . . ."Too right"!!!

[1] a "flying carpet" under our feet- though not above our life in the sense of aloof & beyond suffering, sometimes it's more like a "dying" carpet (he did say "Take up your own cross & follow me”), but the path he led the way on was going to come out the other side with a new kind of (resurrection) life.
[2] is somehow through his spirit in his people, the one who walks it in (co-operation with) us. Though we know that really it's him letting us be "co-operators with God".

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