Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
3/29/2021
That River of Reality is the Word of God
All of us want to draw strength from some deep river of reality and
become fruitful, joyous, and useful people. What is that river for you?
The internet? Google? Some TED talk? Really…what do you draw from every
day as you navigate life? I think most people run on automatic. My
schedule is set by my work and family… It’s full as usual. There’s no
great wisdom required, I’ve done these things for years… What’s the big
deal? How much room is there for God to impart some great wisdom into
mundane tasks?
How does one quantify God’s worth in mundane tasks? How does one walk
with God and talk with him? How can we know the joy of God if the little
things are all discarded as inconsequential? Who needs God then? Some
say I need him for the big stuff. The problems of my life and the
world.
What you’re talking about is a relationship but I just need a
problem solver.
When Jesus came into the world, humanity was split according to what
they loved. “The light has come into the world, and people
loved the darkness rather than the light” (John 3:19)
The righteous and the wicked are separated by what they delight
in —
the revelation of God in Jesus, or the way of the world.
There will come a time that you will fall to your knees in the
despair of your helplessness to enjoy and love anything without God.
Why… because God is love and we need prayer to know God beyond the
thimble of our finite understanding.
Pray that God will open the recesses of your heart. Pray that he will
take away this calcified heart of stone and turn it into one of flesh.
You can begin today or wait for the crucibles of your life that will
keep appearing to us all until we go home. I believe we will continue to
struggle with the same things until we learn what GOD is trying to tell
us about them. His way. His will. His word.
Meditate on his word day and night and do not let it depart from
you. Everything else will burn like hay and stubble. We know
this, so why do we hesitate?
The psalmist said, “How sweet are your words to my taste” (Psalm
119:103), said earlier, “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things
out of your law” (Psalm 119:18)
Yes, meditate on the benefits God promises to his people and on the
joy of having Almighty God as your helper now and forever. (Especially
in those mundane tasks) Psalm 1:3–4 says that the person who meditates
on God’s word “is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields
its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he
does, he prospers. The wicked are not so but are like chaff that the
wind drives away.
Who would not want to be that tree that even in a dry season will
pick up the freshwater because of the deep roots we have grown in our
obedience to God’s word? By loving his direction. By being a student and
servant of God Almighty Himself. Who wouldn’t want that? It’s called the
river of living water. The Book of Life. The Book of real reality.
Casting Crowns Only Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQd3K2Fxp4&list=PL3oW2tjiIxvTstLS9GlgaT_mqONT0WVDw&index=18
Excerpts taken from John Pipers Life is a Vapor
