Not much time to write...shower and out the door. I just got a little window of Internet connection and am pounding the keys trying to get everything done before it disappears! School is amazing....more than that...just don't have words. Hope everyone who lives nearby and has this night and day is aware of their blessing! Yesterday during worship the joy of the Lord just filled me up to overflow...the freedom and fearlessness just overflowed....I just had to....CONGA!!!! Yes...conga...guess that's childlike faith being expressed? It was a blast...Had to wrestle with some things afterwards, but Satan never likes you to have fun with God. We shouldn't be surprised at his fiery darts after something like that. And the part of our own souls that has grown hard, sophisticated, afraid or jaded....that will keep you from dancing. There is freedom here because this is not business as usual. These are glad people...their hearts are glad. It's been a long time since my heart was glad. I've had little tastes, and moments of it in the last year and a half or so....kind of like a "taste and see that the Lord is good!" moment to make me hungry. Jesus will woo us and wine and dine us and we will remember our first love, if we make that choice to take our eye's off worthless things, and pursue Him. And it's love that makes a disciple. Not duty...not being compelled under pressure, not religious beliefs and rules, or trying to be good. It's being in love with your maker.
Songs 8:6
Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death, jealousy is as severe as the grave
Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it.
If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.
Pray though that scripture and meditate on it a while. Many things will overcome our zeal...nothing will overcome our love.
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