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The Journal of A. Paige White 11/8/07
11/08/2007 12:12 p.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukb96vjIYzY
My wrastlin partner, lol! Better luck next time around, my friend! You go Joe! If you can't take 'em on the mat, just get em on the concrete, lol! whew... makes me sore all over again just from watching it... that stuff will GET you.
When I signed on the headline "Georgia in a state of emergency" made my heart clinch for a moment. What a relief to realize it was not the USA state of Georgia. I'm in a sober, humbled frame of mind anyway. Whew. Studying the tabernacle of the Lord in the old testament will do that. So many things i forget so quickly. Like how the fixtures of the outer court are made of acacia wood (a knotty, stubborn, hard to work with wood, like the people who can enter in) and covered with bronze, lit with the sunlight of this natural world. In the Holy place, closer to the presence of God the furnishings are acacia wood and covered with pure gold and lit by lamps of olive oil. The natural light of this world doesn't illuminate it at all. The olive oil represents the holy spirit's illumination of circumstances. Our God is a consuming fire. And then to follow it up with more study about wheat and tares and how they grow together until the harvest, even resembling each other except the wheat will have fruit and will bow over from the weight of the fruit where the tares still stand upright, prideful but with no fruit to harvest....To have followed last night's reading where Jesus was hungry and went to the fig bush and found lush leaves but not fruit at all and cursed it where it at once withered up...The threes of your word has captivated my thoughts... how you ministered to the multitude, to the twelve, and then at your transfiguration, to the three... oh yes, today is a day to realize I MUST humble myself lest He humble me for my own good.
Heavenly Father, please help me. I don't want to be a tare. I don't want to face your son and have Him blot my name from your book of life and say He never knew me. I know He knows me- he came to me in a dream long before I had a clue what that meant- yet I know too, not to go forward flowing like a river of water will cause stagnation. Please cause me to flow with your presence, flow with your purposes in my life, flow filled with your grace and mercy to splash onto everyone I come into contact with. Walk with me today, Father. Every step. Teach me today. Teach me how to love, how to speak truth in love. Let the furnishings of my tabernacle be found worthy to be covered in pure gold that your holy fire doesn't consume my soul. In Jesus name, Amen.
I am currently Needy
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