Monday, May 22, 2006

Pursuing God's Archive!

Pursuing God's Archive! We must not be content until we have had some manifestation of the activity of God. 

I lost my keys. Does anyone know where I put them? "My God pursuit ends in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, ... but moves my lost keys to the desk after I pray."  Pursue God. Will you try to find God where you last lost Him. Is your pursuit of God like pursing God's archive? Is it like playing Name that tune? You know that the familiar melody is retrievable. You search the C drive,  D drive and floppy disk of your souls archive. But your mind registers a fatal error for your search. You can sing the melody. But you can't name the Tune. God is at the place called Flow-Diligence. It is the place of His present moving. It is the place of our finding Him. You will not find God at your last place of due diligence. As soon as God moves and acts , He moves. God exist in the new move of His glory.  We are  nomads and  Donkey travelers (Click here: Donkey ride unnecessary, necessary, productive?) catching up to the Ebenezer of His presence. The protocol for a glimpse of God is from behind. Our stance is steps behind the King as required by protocol. The answer to your future is a snapshot of God's Hindsight. A snapshot of His back is a future view for us. God has already been where you are going. The view of God's hind part is a future view for us. The issues and circumstances must be a God back view. “We must not be content until we have had some manifestation of the activity of God. We must concentrate on this. This ismy plea, that we concentrate on this, because it is the great message of the Bible, so substantiated by the lessons of history. That is obviously today the only thing that gives us any hope as we face the future. And God seems to be saying that to us. 'Prove Me now. Try Me. Risk  your everything on Me. Be fools for My sake. Cast yourselves utterly upon this belief.' Let us put it like this: Do we really believe that God can still act? That is the question; that is the ultimate challenge. Or have we, for theological or some other reasons, excluded the very possibility? Here is the crucial matter. Do we individually and personally really believe that God still acts, can act and will act - in individuals, in groups of individuals, in churches, localities, perhaps even in countries? Do we believe that He is as capable of doing that today as He was in ancient times - the Old Testament, the New Testament times, the book of Acts, Protestant Reformation, Puritans, Methodist Awakening, 1859, 1904-5? Do we really believe that He can still do it? You see, it is ultimately what you believe about God. If He is the great Jehovah - I am that I am, I am that I shall be, unchanged, unchanging, unchangeable, the everlasting and eternal God - well, He can still do it.1971, the great 20th century preacher, Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

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