Comments on: An Old Pattern

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:17:49 +0000

Doreen, I miss you both too! Today I am resting with Claudia’s words about His faithfulness – regardless of our faithfulness to Him. He is finishing what He started. I get so caught up in the dust-devil of thought that pushes me to “do something” to “fix something.” At this time in my life, trust is another great lesson in letting go. Thanks Claudia, for always returning my focus to HIM. HE is making every change, and tweaking everything that needs adjusting…

By: doreen kelley

doreen kelley — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:31:14 +0000

This subject also touched on a place that I am dealing with right now. I have long time practiced some of these same habits. I see now that it was always a futile attempt to preserve or protect myself from rejection. Father has once again revealed I am not alone on this journey. He is the truth in me and the truth has no need for defense or preservation. The truth stands without wavering, without judgement, and without exclusivity. Thank Christ Jesus it is in Him that I live and move and have my being.

P.S. I miss you both!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:45 +0000

Hi Claudia, I’m glad what’s occurring in me helps! He shines a light and the true me comes forward while the false and needy one cowers away.

I think the mind of the flesh doesn’t want problems to be solved… it prefers the illusion of trying to complete itself apart from Christ. It LIKES having issues to address, so it avoids rooms that reveal truth.

The mind of the flesh drives my false effort to complete myself and thrives on the cycle of never being enough. It is silenced when I remember that I have need of nothing; I am already finished, complete in Christ.

With that in mind, I enter dusty rooms, not to become whole, but rather to expose the old, familiar, fractured patterns and lies that try to convince me that I’m not.

Thanks for talking to me…it keeps me aware that miles cannot separate those whom God has joined together!!!

susan

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:16:29 +0000

Oh my gosh, is this ever speaking to something within me that I didn’t know needed to be spoken to! How precious He is. How faithful He is to each and every one of us, to woo, to point out, to heal by the mere PRESENCE OF HIS SPEAKING WITHIN . . .

Here you share this enlightenment that turns on a light in my heart revealing a room I didn’t even know was there! I’m going to sit with these words in my quiet time before Him and let Him speak His love within this dark and dusty room, cluttered up with broken pieces of me.

He truly amazes me! How faithful He is to us . . . Never mind about our unfaithfulness, or inability to be consistent . . . How faithful HE is to finish what He has started! Oh, yes. Faithful is another one of His Names!

xxxooo Claudia