lots of catching up to do :)
Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I hope and pray all is well with all of you. I very much apologize for the long passage of time between blogs. I have a lot to catch you all up on now. Lately I've been reading The Journey of Desire by John Eldridge. It's such a great book y'all! Please get it and read it! And any of Eldridge's other books too for that matter.
Anyhow, here's what I've been reading. I've read chapter four through chapter ten. Chapter four is called Disowned Desire. It is talking about the heart-aches we go through and it's all more then we can bear. So, we let go of our desires (or we at least try to). And if we don't bury them, we discount them and say we don't want that anymore.
Chapter five is called Mocking Our Desires- the Impostors. In this chapter Eldridge talks about things we think are our desires, but really aren't. They take our attention away from our real and true desires. When we continue to pursue the impostors, God may step in and show us that this isn't what He wants us to do, and shows us our true desires again. This is painful, but we need it.
The sixth chapter of this book is The Devine Thwarter. This is pretty much the same as the one before, only it talks more about God fouling up our plans to do what isn't our real and true desires. Like I said above, this is painful, but it is necessary.
Chapter seven is The Great Restoration. Once we find what our heart truely wants, it's like drinking fresh cool water on a hot summer's day. Jesus said it best in the book of Revelation, "Look, I am making all things new" (21:5). It's just like when Spring first begins after Winter, when all the snow melts away and the grass is full and green again, and the trees are full of leaves again.
Chapter eight is The Grand Affair. This is talking about us figuering (spelling error?) out what is our real and true desires. Then it talks about worship and how truely great it is, for this is the way we show God we truely love Him.
Chapter nine is The Adventure Begins. In this chapter we see our true desires that God has given to us. And it says that our true joy and happiness comes in having things to do that glorify Him.
And chapter ten is Entering More Deeply Into Desire. "The dilemma of desire is the deepest dilemma we will ever face. It's dangers are deep and potentially fatal. How, then, shall we not loose heart? If we manage to somehow hang on to our desire, how do we keep from being consumed by it"? That is indeed the question, is it not? This chapter is talking about finding our real and true desires and giving them to God so we can lean on and trust Him to take us to the end.
Whew! Alrighty then. Two more chapters in this book. I'll finish them up tomorrow or Monday. Then I'll read the remaining chapters in Risk this week and blog about them before Febuary ends.
My parents and Jim Corner finished up their first week of teaching in the Cameroun Church Leaders's siminar. They are now in Kumba and will start teaching there begining Monday. Please keep them in your prayers as well as the AIMers, my friends Elijah and Kristan, and Rob and Denyce and all of their teams. Thank you all very much! God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
Anyhow, here's what I've been reading. I've read chapter four through chapter ten. Chapter four is called Disowned Desire. It is talking about the heart-aches we go through and it's all more then we can bear. So, we let go of our desires (or we at least try to). And if we don't bury them, we discount them and say we don't want that anymore.
Chapter five is called Mocking Our Desires- the Impostors. In this chapter Eldridge talks about things we think are our desires, but really aren't. They take our attention away from our real and true desires. When we continue to pursue the impostors, God may step in and show us that this isn't what He wants us to do, and shows us our true desires again. This is painful, but we need it.
The sixth chapter of this book is The Devine Thwarter. This is pretty much the same as the one before, only it talks more about God fouling up our plans to do what isn't our real and true desires. Like I said above, this is painful, but it is necessary.
Chapter seven is The Great Restoration. Once we find what our heart truely wants, it's like drinking fresh cool water on a hot summer's day. Jesus said it best in the book of Revelation, "Look, I am making all things new" (21:5). It's just like when Spring first begins after Winter, when all the snow melts away and the grass is full and green again, and the trees are full of leaves again.
Chapter eight is The Grand Affair. This is talking about us figuering (spelling error?) out what is our real and true desires. Then it talks about worship and how truely great it is, for this is the way we show God we truely love Him.
Chapter nine is The Adventure Begins. In this chapter we see our true desires that God has given to us. And it says that our true joy and happiness comes in having things to do that glorify Him.
And chapter ten is Entering More Deeply Into Desire. "The dilemma of desire is the deepest dilemma we will ever face. It's dangers are deep and potentially fatal. How, then, shall we not loose heart? If we manage to somehow hang on to our desire, how do we keep from being consumed by it"? That is indeed the question, is it not? This chapter is talking about finding our real and true desires and giving them to God so we can lean on and trust Him to take us to the end.
Whew! Alrighty then. Two more chapters in this book. I'll finish them up tomorrow or Monday. Then I'll read the remaining chapters in Risk this week and blog about them before Febuary ends.
My parents and Jim Corner finished up their first week of teaching in the Cameroun Church Leaders's siminar. They are now in Kumba and will start teaching there begining Monday. Please keep them in your prayers as well as the AIMers, my friends Elijah and Kristan, and Rob and Denyce and all of their teams. Thank you all very much! God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack
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