The time has come to return to my
calling, to placing words together in a way that will hopefully bring glory to
my Daddy. At this point I have no idea
what this report will contain but He does, and that is good enough for me.
Last weekend I went off on a
men’s camp weekend with little idea of the why of the event. It turned out that
I got a couple of endorsements of my writing and perhaps a new direction in
which to pursue the endeavour. One of these elements being that of the writing
style. It is the power of encouragement potential
in the life of the person who receives the encouragement. I hadn’t really thought about that as an
element of motivation.
In reality I believe that we,
especially males, generally get only half-hearted or don’t get any praise when
we do something well. This is the crux
of the matter when we attempt something. It seems that we either get a response of the Tall
Poppy Syndrome, or people find a way to ignore that we have attempted
something, or we just manage to get it all wrong. In which case it is
insignificant what others think because we manage to indict ourselves
regardless of how badly we stuff it up.
This is, of course, when we are
operating in the flesh mode which is where we tend to go when we do blow
it. However when we manage to put some time
between the incident and the error, when we settle down and let Dad put His
perspective over ours we discover that He is more pleased that we at least
tried even if we blew it.
The other side of the issue is. If we blow something that we initiated
thinking that it was something that we could do for God this doesn’t suggest
that Dad cannot use what we blew for good or His purposes, which is one of the
other sides of the Father. He can use
even the worst stuff ups and turn it around to make it a part of His plan.
If you remember the story of that
upstart Joseph son of Jacob from the history section of the Old Testament. When he came into authority in Egypt, and the
famine drove his brothers to his feet in search for food when they eventually
realized who the “prince” they were dealing with was. They immediately started to imagine the
punishment that they would face when they bowed to Joseph as he had told them
about. When he was nothing more than dreamy
kid. But no Joseph remonstrated with them
with the words “what you meant for evil, God meant for good” and he then sent
them to bring their entire family to Egypt to live as his protected family. This situation continued until after the death
of Joseph and the Egyptians realized the number of foreigners who lived within
their boundaries who would make an excellent source of cheap labour.
Life and the Bible are full of
examples of recall. In hindsight we
regret the experiences that we miss but the reality of life is that every
missed moment modifies our life to the point where we learn from them. Here Dad covers us with His grace, He enables
us to live above our memories and our failures. We all stuff up in our lives. This is the most basic proof of the fall of
mankind. But through God’s love He makes
it right when we accept our actions and ask Him to forgive us.
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