Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Jesus comes over to dinner and drops some woes on your head.  But you deserve it.  You have totally missed the point of His relationship with you.  You made the classic external vs. internal error.  Jesus calls you to fix the internal, for His love, and then fix the outside.

OK, so I get the interior right.  How can I enact the right internal relationship?  Find a burden.  Use a finger to help.  Just one finger.  Listen to find yourself in the weight room of life.

In Luke 11:29 Jesus tell His generation that they are evil and that the sign of Jonah is being given to it.  Some say this is the three days in the belly, and it certainly is that.

But what is the motivation behind the three days?  Listen and find out!

Jesus slams His contemporary generation as evil.  Then He pulls out an amazing lesson from one of the great curiosities of history: THE QUEEN OF SHEBA.  The woman ran a whole country.  She had 9000 POUNDS of gold to spare to give to Solomon as a hostess gift!  Sure beats a scented candle.

She is admirable in many ways.He says she is going to be on the good side of the judgment. 1 Kings 10: 1

Listen and find out why!!!

Why is there evil?  Sorry, not going to tell you today.

What happens to Evil?  We will put that one to bed with His PINKIE.

What happens to a guy who was caught up on the wrong team apparently against his will?  We find a compassionate, understanding, powerful Christ.

Which team are you on?  Listen and do more than marveling. 

What if I am an EVIL PERSON?

But don't I do some nice things?

Wrestle with me about God's view of you.  Wrestle with me about YOUR view of you.  

Is Man Basically GOOD?  

We get two not perfect human examples of giving and receiving.  
Unfortunately, the news is we are not perfect, even evil.  Yikes.  But we know how to give at least a little.  I wonder if there is something to learn there.

After learning about the character of man and woman, we learn about the character of God.  He's a giver.  He actually wants us to ask, even ask a little "over the line".  He wants to make a new home, and boy do we need it.

You mean to tell me the Spirit of God choses a home that is imperfect mankind?  Imperfect womankind? Indwells?  Makes a H-O-M-E there.  It's too good to ask for, and yet He asks us to so ask. 
Listen and find out.

The Lord is a giver.  We are not so much.  Today, we hear a story of a man who asks another man inconveniently, untimely, and immodestly.  And then we find his midnight friend respond.  And much more so God.

He asks us to cross the line a bit into boldness, persistence and maybe break some rules.  He asks us to :

Ask for what only He can give
Help us find what only He can find
Open what only He can open.

If you have a need like that, you will want to listen today.

We are a people under difficulty.  Some of it is for our holiness.  That is called a trial or a test.  But too, we a people tempted by evil.  The former is for our GOOD.  The later is for our DESTRUCTION..  Both are hard and the Lord knows it.  Today's part of the Lord's prayer addresses them both.  

If you have a trial for your good; or a temptation for your destruction facing you this day (trust me, you do) then this meditation is for you.

Travel with us as we journey to a critical moment of life.  Before we ASK forgiveness, we need to FIND the problem.  We can ask those around us, but this never happens.  Then we have to rely on this process best described by David.  

His heart STRUCK him.  This is a trip to the core.  Listen and be struck.

We all love Ezekiel 36:26.  And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you.  And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statues and be careful to obey my rules.  

But then what?  What does a Spirit filled Christian look like?  What does this new squishy heart do?  How is it different that the granite one?  Well, it becomes more LOATHESOME.  Listen and see how.

For some this will be the hardest meditation of all time. 

Yet, it is a marker of a believing person and bigger, the mark of a believing people.  

Who do you know that demonstrates this well? Who might you intercede for today that needs a little help here?  Who do you need to fix relationship with?  

Listen and consider this reminder from Jesus.