I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled." Listen to the ache in that.…I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled." Listen to the ache in that. Not a calm teacher, but someone impatient to start a blaze. And his very next breath names the cost: a baptism he must undergo first. The fire he wanted for you was lit from his own cross. Are you still warming your hands at it, or has it stopped burning in you?
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Thank You for leaving the stump of the roots, for not uprooting me when You humble me. You cut back…Thank You for leaving the stump of the roots, for not uprooting me when You humble me. You cut back only to restore, and You teach me what Nebuchadnezzar learned: that the heavens do rule. My seasons rest in hands kinder than my own.
The north was Babylon, the direction every invading army came from, the land where exiles still sat far from home.…The north was Babylon, the direction every invading army came from, the land where exiles still sat far from home. God had not looked away from it. "Those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country." Something in God stayed restless until that place was dealt with. He is not indifferent to where you were wounded.
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She has just given birth. She is spent, bleeding, worn thin. And God doesn't ask her to climb her way…She has just given birth. She is spent, bleeding, worn thin. And God doesn't ask her to climb her way back to him. He sends a priest: "he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her." Someone else carries the offering while she rests. Mary stood in that same line once, holding Jesus. Where are you still trying to clean yourself up, when another has already done it for you?
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