God is hard on His friends. Have you ever noticed how someone who is “halfheartedly” seeking God gets just about everything the pray for. Then you look at a guy like Moses, the humblest man who ever lived (God said that) and He can’t get away with slapping a rock with a stick. It wasn’t like he beat someone’s child. Moses had to deal with his friendship with God.
The more you truly know God, the more sever His love for you is. Sever love, that would be a good book title. This is so that you can keep on sharing in His holiness. Holiness is something that is not a part of this earth. All holiness is from another place, like the Kingdom of God, Heaven, the uncreated realm. If you want to eat the best ice-cream (holiness) you need to be able to handle God’s severity – not just His blessings.
I like it that God is complex. I mean if I have lived with my loving wife for almost 30 years and don’t have her figured out, I want God to be more complicated than that. I don’t want God to be reduced down to “God is love”. I like it that God has multiple names and that many of them are in competition. The Prince of Peace and the Lord of Host (ARMIES) is just one example. I like a God who can make a rock so big that He Himself could not pick it up, to wise to make such a rock and so loving that He spends hours of His time talking to people who accuse His of smashing them with that rock that was to big for Him to pick up, let alone throw.
Well, I’m gonna try to be God’s friend. I know it will cost me my life – I just as well spend it on Him as on me. I want to take the friendship with God thing to new levels. I want to find out just how far someone who started in the pit of life can go. I guess I might be motivated by boredom, nothing much here on earth that thrills any more. Of the stuff that I think will thrill, it just leaves you feeling guilty and isolated from the one who loves me the most.
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Dear Rod...I deeply appreciate and benefit from your writings and thoughts...I offer this little nudge in great love and respect: in your 9/22 article the word you obviously intended to use was "severe", not "sever", since sever means "to cut off" (which would radically change your message)...I am wondering if the spelling errors are intentional, so that we focus more carefully on what is written, or are you using a computer which does not have SpellCheck?...(this is a marvelous feature which, at the click of the mouse, brings all questionably spelled words to your attention)...PLEASE, PLEASE, do keep writing and sharing your thoughts with us, but consider reviewing your text to make sure that your trademark misspelling doesn't interfere with what you wish to share...with love and affection in Christ from a brother who may sound like a Pharisee, but is trying to be a friend
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