Helpful Things.

Yeah yeah, blah blah, haven't posted in a while -

Let's skip the apologies and get right to it.

Some helpful things this week -

1) Spending a little bit of time on Sunday talking with Norman and Deb J about the Bible. I realize that, in a very sad way, I do not spend a lot of my time talking with people about the Bible, and the difficulties, struggles, blessings, glories...This is a bad thing. We discussed how I didn't know how to read the Psalms (no joke. I don't know how else to explain it. Still struggling.) and Deb didn't know how to read the Gospel according to John. It was helpful, however, to hear their hearts and perspectives on both. Why don't I do this more? It was excellent!

2) I've read Psalm 27:4 about 50 times in the past five years. It became my favorite verse for a while, but it wasn't until yesterday that I got a little bit of the meaning more deeply.

In it, David is crying out, saying that he has one single desire - to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord. The thing that never ever struck me until yesterday, though, was that it was in the midst of him being in turmoil, being pursued by enemies, that he most desired to see the face of God.

The implication being: we desire Christ's beauties the most when we are in the midst of our greatest struggles.

Maybe praying for suffering isn't such a dumb thing after all.

3) I want to add one more thing to this post, but I need to get back to work. I'll try to post it when I get home tonight!