{"id":53,"date":"2007-08-14T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-10-24T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T21:06:24","slug":"where-does-my-help-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2007\/08\/14\/where-does-my-help-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does my help come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Blue Like Jazz (p. 237):<\/p>\n

I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there IS something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trusting in Jesus is weak? I counter that the thing that takes the most strength in this life is selflessness. What is the fruit of the spirit?
\nLove, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control.<\/p>\n

The strength the keep loving when your love doesn’t come Bam! right back at you when you desire it.
\nThe strength to move PAST hurt and bitterness in this life and to still live joyfully.
\nTo have the world collapse and not collapse with it but be at at peace, even when in prison, or in genuine despair.
\nTo power to be kind when it gains you nothing immediate and may not even be deserved by the one receiving it.
\nThe restraint to be gentle when barging through is easy.
\nAll of these things flow not from within, but from the spirit of the living God!<\/p>\n

This is real strength.
\nWhere does my help come from?<\/strong>
\nNot from my own talents, skills, intellect, physical strength or money.
\nMy help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth.<\/strong>
\nGlory be to the Lord, the Creator, and to Jesus, his anointed one!<\/p>\n

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From Blue Like Jazz (p. 237): I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there IS something … <\/p>\n

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