Make Spiritual Poverty History!
Photograph (c) Phil Janvier December 2005
I look at the counter on this blog page and I'm often left thinking, who are the thousands of people behind those hits? Then I realised that most of them are spiders belonginging to search engines. What must it be like for God having all those prayers coming in at a countless rate? Recently I have had to have an hearing aid fitted to help battle some hearing loss and the constant whistle of tinnitus, but I have found it really difficult to adjust and at one point I was completlely overwhelmed by sound and for a moment I was disorientated, lost and confused, I had to pull the wretched thing out my ear to get the world at the right angle. Thank God he is not like that. He doesn't throw us away because we are too much for him. That is amazing!
On a different note we have just finished a 24/7 prayer week here, particularly focusing on Mission, we are due to have one starting on the 29th January through to the 12th February, and I was left reflecting for a moment on the thought, "Let's make spiritual poverty history!" Too often we are left feeling as if we ought to apologise for being certain that "Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and the only way to Father". This Christmas I feel a radical moment coming over me and I don't care if I am not being PC, Jesus is the only way to solve spiritual poverty, and we need more of the Spirit of Jesus (as the Holy Spirit is called in the book of Acts), more, more and even more. This Christmas Day I will be 30 years old as a Christian and I want others to share the riches that come from a truth faith in a very real God. So let's all "MAKE SPIRITUAL POVERTY HISTORY!"
God bless, Phil
posted by Bluebox & January @ 5:26 pm
4 Comments:
Happy New year Phil. Found you throught someone else I don't know.
I learned something about poverty of spirit this past summer in Gary Wiens' class at ihop k.c.How Jesus lived the positive kind of poverty of spirit by being totally dependent on His Father for everything, His identity included.It blew me away, and gave new light on the beatitudes. "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven". He really knew what and Who He was talking about.
I understand that you are referring to something different, but just wanted to share a but.
Bless you !
Naturally I meant share a bit....not but.
I also used to love watching Dr.Who years ago, when you were likely a kid.
I came across your blog through John Davies's. Just want to let you know who's behind one of the hits. And btw, I had lived in Liverpool for a year.
Here's another hit from someone who should probably be working harder but hey it's my teatime break :) Half of my hits are from search engines where people are probably searching for Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress ...
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