Our Heavenly Dentist

Our Heavenly Dentist

Friday, April 15, 2011

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"God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy." - C.S. Lewis 

In his book, "Mere Christianity", Mr. Lewis was speaking of God's desire to perfect us. He used to get toothaches & he wanted to get the aspirin his mother would give him but he didn't want what was sure to follow.  He knew it wouldn't stop there. She would call the dentist and he would root around in there to find every little thing that needed fixing.

 God is like this. We just want forgiveness from this one certain sin, but He never stops there. The Lord has a vision of us operating in our greatest potential. He keeps working on us our whole lives so that we will resemble Him and the perfect version of us He has in His heart. He wants us as ready for eternity as we can be. 

So, when we find ourselves right in the middle of life's situations and circumstances understand that He is working for your eternal weight of glory.

People became cross with Mr. Lewis speaking on the unyielding demand from God to be perfect, but He is not wanting you to act perfect, He is wanting you to allow Him to "perFECT" you. The verb not the adjective!

"Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48

"love the things you have..."

"love the things you have..."

Friday, April 8, 2011

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I survey my vast acquisitions
of Goodwill with a capital "Guh", of Salvation with a side of Army... On my Hill of Miracles.... Used... Someone's discards have become my most beloved. My mom recites a poem by Edgar Guest in church all the time..

"love the things you have, by using them everyday."

I don't want to lose sight of my appreciation for what He has given me, in my effort to see what else I think I need.

More than just the stuff, it is bigger... Self-denial. I "discard" my life and my right to control it, and yet He picks up what is useful and reinvents it. It becomes His most beloved too. May I become one of His own that He loves because He can use me everyday.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:24-26 (NKJV)