Sitting at Sam's getting a new tire.  Read this and wanted to share.  My prayer is that we allow His greatness to permeate us and overflow to others.  Grace and Peace.
Link to the Post below.

True Greatness

True greatness is not a what but a how. It’s how you understand what it means to follow your Lord, how you see yourself and your fellow human beings, how and who you serve in the days after November 8. It’s about becoming, serving, giving, sacrificing. It’s about loving people and standing up for the weak, regardless of whether that platform was voted for or not. It’s about offering those around you an alternative source of hope – one that is not dependent on earthly wins or losses but is sustained by our Creator and made accessible to all.

http://www.missioalliance.org/its-time-to-be-great-again/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reclaimingthemission%2Fgo+%28Reclaiming+the+Mission%29

Are You Normal?

In His book, The Indwelling Life Of Christ, Major Ian Thomas has a chapter entitled, Are You Normal.  Does this sound familiar in relation to the name of the blog?

Eph. 4:23-24 - Be renewed in the spirit of your mind and . . .  put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

"God Himself, as our Creator, always intended that He should indwell us; His cherished ambition was to be seen and heard in those He created. That is normality for a human being, when God Himself is behaving in and through a man or woman. This is the purpose for which He created us, that we might be a physical, visible expression on this earth of the God who is otherwise invisible, as John tells us: "No one has seen God at any time" (John 1:18).

. . . He must be within us the origin of His own image, the source of His own activity, the dynamic of His own demands, and the cause of His own effect.

Therefore if any human being is truly normal in his or her behavior, there is only One Person to be congratulated, and that is God Himself.  Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is."  Pages 17-18

May we all strive to be normal humans and let Him permeate us moment by moment.

Grace and Peace

Let Him Permeate Your Now

My prayer for all my brothers and sisters in Christ is for Him to permeate your now.  May you allow Him to be your focus moment by moment.

May you allow Him to permeate your now so you can live Christ in this moment and then He can live His life through you.

Grace and Peace

Daily exhorting / Turn to Jesus

Quote from a young man who connects with me daily.

. . . the daily checking in really does keep me centered.
. . . moving toward Jesus and not simply away from what I do not want to be.  I find grace more quickly and get my eyes back on Jesus faster.

Two thoughts -
1)  In Hebrews, it shows the daily speaking together of the Lord is of value.
Hebrews 3:13-14, But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
2)  It is more important for us to move or turn to Jesus instead of just turning away from what gives us problems or causes us to sin.
I say, "Amen." 

Do All Things Happen . . .

Repost from Tangence on 'Do All Things Happen for a Reason?' ( link below)
I have not read a more clear understand of a tough subject than what the blogger has shared.  This portion especially on defining the "middle way."

"One “middle way” in this circumstance is to recognize that while God does not cause every thing that happens, and some things happen for no clear reason, God remains connected to us in the experience in such a way that he will redeem it. Rather than orchestrating every moment of our life, programming us like computer code, he is allowing our experiences, our stories to unfold, and through his omnicompetence he redeems every sadness, every injury, every loss no matter how great or devastating.

Does everything happen for a reason? No. Everything does not happen for a divine reason. Yet everything that does happen remains a thread of grace that God weaves in the fabric of a life of grace and redemption."

https://tangence.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/do-all-things-happen-for-a-reason/

Grace and Peace,
mike

Is Jesus Enough? Chip Brogden

Great Question we need to keep in front of us.

Is Jesus Enough? by Chip Brogden

“After they had eaten, Jesus asked Simon Peter,

‘Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me

more than these other things?'”

John 21:15

If Jesus was all you had, would Jesus be enough for you?

Many precious believers are in love with the things of the Lord, but they are not in love with the Lord Himself. Many Christian workers and ministers are in love with the Lord’s work. Almost without realizing it, the work of the Lord becomes more important than the Lord of the work.

There are prophets and teachers who hold words from God in higher esteem than the God Who speaks the words they attribute as being from Him. People seek these words and teachings. The more they receive, the more they want. Before one word is digested they are craving another. They are seeking “things” – words, prophecies, teachings, visions, dreams – but they are not seeking the Lord Himself.

Is Jesus enough?

Read the complete blog post from Chip Brogden here

http://www.chipbrogden.com/is-jesus-enough/

A Full Meal

A Full Meal

And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. Ruth 2:14

Whenever we are privileged to eat the bread that Jesus gives, we are, like Ruth, satisfied with a full and sweet provision. When Jesus is the host, no guest goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied with the precious truth that Christ reveals; our heart is content with Jesus as the altogether lovely object of affection; our hope is satisfied, for who do we have in heaven but Jesus? And our desire is fulfilled, for what more can we wish for than to "gain Christ and be found in him"?¹ Jesus fills our conscience until it is at perfect peace, our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of His teachings, our memory with recollections of what He has done, and our imagination with the prospects of what He is still to do.

Later in the devotional he writes:

Yes, there are graces to which we have not attained, places of fellowship nearer to Christ that we have not reached, and heights of communion that our feet have not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets left.

From Truth for Life, a Bible-teaching ministry of Alistair Begg

https://www.truthforlife.org/resources/daily-devotionals/03/19/2016/

My prayer - May we allow this truth to permeate us today: Only the Lord can satisfy us and may we continue to search the depths, heights, widths and lengths of our Lord's graces and resources.