I love new stuff. Not material stuff. Well maybe some material stuff if it is outdoors related. But I love new (of a different kind) of stuff. I love to see a side of God that I have never seen, to learn something that I have not known before, to think a thought for the first time.
You need to be a little careful when you try to analyze thinking about a thought for the first time. You don’t want to get trapped into thinking wither you “thought of this though” when you were trying to “think that this though” was an original thought or if you thought of this thought prior to thinking about thinking about this thought. You know what I mean.
Things that are new (as in the same kind but just new) are great. I love a new bow, a new dish of ice cream, a new journal. But I love, really love something new.
I was reading John through trying to hear the Lord in the scripture for my children. I wanted to read this old book and hear new things. I wanted to think thought from the heat of God for my family. I was on an adventure. Just about every verse led me to write pages in my journal. Have you ever noticed that God speaks one or two words into our heart and we need a thousand to translate the emotion, spirit, revelation and wonder of what He is saying? No wonder God can talk to us all at the same time, He can express in one word a decade of discovery. Was that a new thought to you?
I think I am gong to take on August with a fresh zeal to replace the worlds entertainment with a quest for new thoughts from and about God. I think I will focus on “loving others as I love myself” because I am weak on the first part and grant on the second. I have thought about this before.
I wonder if I can think new thoughts, have new ideas on what it is like to love others. I wonder how many new things I could encounter in 30 days, if I could be transformed in some way through the new of a different kind.
You need to be a little careful when you try to analyze thinking about a thought for the first time. You don’t want to get trapped into thinking wither you “thought of this though” when you were trying to “think that this though” was an original thought or if you thought of this thought prior to thinking about thinking about this thought. You know what I mean.
Things that are new (as in the same kind but just new) are great. I love a new bow, a new dish of ice cream, a new journal. But I love, really love something new.
I was reading John through trying to hear the Lord in the scripture for my children. I wanted to read this old book and hear new things. I wanted to think thought from the heat of God for my family. I was on an adventure. Just about every verse led me to write pages in my journal. Have you ever noticed that God speaks one or two words into our heart and we need a thousand to translate the emotion, spirit, revelation and wonder of what He is saying? No wonder God can talk to us all at the same time, He can express in one word a decade of discovery. Was that a new thought to you?
I think I am gong to take on August with a fresh zeal to replace the worlds entertainment with a quest for new thoughts from and about God. I think I will focus on “loving others as I love myself” because I am weak on the first part and grant on the second. I have thought about this before.
I wonder if I can think new thoughts, have new ideas on what it is like to love others. I wonder how many new things I could encounter in 30 days, if I could be transformed in some way through the new of a different kind.
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