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Terry Kandt's avatar

You are on an amazing journey, keep your feet moving!

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Linda Marie Bicksler's avatar

Like this on so many levels. You grasp it -- the walk.

So did Martin Luther (ever see the movie, Luther, with Joseph Fiennes)? He finally grasped Habakkuk: "The Just shall live by faith." (I think it is Habakkuk.)

This appears also in the old classic, "Hinds Feet on High Places," written by a missionary, and also Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."

I like that you heard, but not with ears. Yes.

I like that your Faith is not ("earned" by) Doing, yet you did.

I like how you could not see through the green, but then saw more, and later saw a whole new road. That road does involve sacrifice and suffering at some point -- but not as the world knows. Not despair. Not horrific "inevitability."

God is more complex than we are. More parts and pieces.

I like the way you've flipped Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Less Traveled By" on its head. I give you Psalm 18, which depicts God arriving in an unusual way -- advocating in ANGER! -- not AT his helpless child, but WITH and FOR the forces against him.

This is what Job knew, at last.

Psalm 18 gives the "other half of the story" -- what I finally saw, after reading it hundreds of times: The enemies are not human. They are demonic. This is Ephesians 6:10-20 spiritual warfare, against real warring enemies.

What I love is that, with the LORD'S help, DAVID is not only rescued in from an impossible situation, but victorious against all who oppose him.

I believe sonetimes this will be a spiritual, not a total physical victory, at least at first. Yet it is (eternally?) decisive!

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