May 19, 2011
Google Glitch
I haven’t been able to post blogs because of a glitch with Google blogspot,
so I’ve spent the last two and a half days repeatedly checking in at the site
to see if the problem is fixed. Sort of reminds me of impatiently checking in
with God when my prayers aren’t answered right away. “Listen
to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea; hear me and answer
me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught…” (Psalm 55:1-2 NIV)
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I had the same problem. You are not alone.
Grace and Peace
Gail;
-----Life is complex because its situations interrelate concretely at such personalized levels that their particular interrelationships with the whole of life become shrouded by the fog of their shear multitudes. Yet each situation’s event and circumstance definitely has a specific effect upon everything’s falling together. And that is just what the Father does - brings together all situations, past, present, and future, both on earth and in heaven, for His purpose. Because we can not see through the fog we can only mentally deal with the specifics most close to our own personal situation. In that purview we often err in assigning the qualities of “good” or “bad” not only to the personalized effects of a situation, but also to the timing of what we perceive to be God’s treatment of it. Yet the individual’s particular place within the whole of life, although being the stitching of only a few threads shaded maybe a dark or maybe a light green or possibly red, forms a very important dot upon the beautiful tapestry God weaves to the pattern in the Father‘s mind. The tapestry’s beauty is majestically good. Therefore the quality of every situation is good to the tapestry, whether or it’s bad to the stitch. This is Romans 8:28 and 9:21-24.
-----He not only sees the picture woven, He sees all the dots individually at once. In one thought He knows every systemic interrelationship of every situation everywhere through all times. Therefore He knows the specific purpose of every situation, including our own. His understanding is full. But ours is not, because we don’t. The only way we can think through the fog to perceive the tapestry is abstractly. In His Word He has defined for us boundaries for that abstract thinking. We can only perceive the tapestry’s majestic beauty by thinking within those boundaries. One boundary is that all things good or bad where our particular threads cross are good, regardless, because if our desires are truly for God’s righteousness, then we belong to the tapestry for the particular purpose of our stitch, not to ourselves for whatever purpose. That’s good matter not the bad. And as the future flows through the present to become known history, more of the tapestry emerges from the abstract fog into clear view. This expansion of historical view adds to our expanding understanding of Scripture to increase the part of His kingdom coming through our minds to take its place in our hearts.
-----So we can appreciate the Lord’s Prayer as less a recital and more a template. We address the Tapestry Designer acknowledging His holiness, that sanctity and setting apart of Himself for causing the good and perfect interacting of every existing particular to serve the majestic beauty of right only everywhere. Therefore our first call in every prayer is for the coming of that tapestry in all ways, from its essence coming into my stitch to its coming into all stitches, to all particulars of it coming under His headship: Thy Kingdom come. What else could be better, then, for the ways the threads cross at a particular stitch than that they do so in accordance with His designed will. Henceforth the prayer becomes as much a sorting of our understanding of His desires as it is a request for His participation in our desires.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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