January 9, 2013

  I read recently that the “absolute center of what God does to change people  is to reveal himself to us, to give us a taste of what he is really like, and to pour his life into us”

               It is a revelation of God that each of us needs.    If I am to offer another person a rich taste of the power and goodness of God, then I must first have had that rich taste myself.      And this is exactly what God wants to give to each of us, both for our own sake and for the sake of others.   

               It is this that Peter received.     Peter was able to blurt out what he had grasped within his heart, yet beyond all understanding,

               He did not understand it, he could not articulate it, at least yet (he did so powerfully in Acts 2 and in his letters, but both were after much failure, misunderstanding and more revelation), however he “got it”   God got through. 

               If you are able to make Peter’s confession your own, it is because God is at work in you.    That is the confidence you can have, not confidence in yourself but that God is at work within you.

                             If you feel you are not able to make this proclamation, but are wrestling
               with it, then God is at work in you also and he will not stop until, just at the right
               time, the revelation will come and you will be able to see clearly what right now is
               still a mist.    Philippians 1:6 is for you.

              “Lord, thank you for revelation.   I know that I cannot “figure out” who you are.
            It is only because you have chosen to come to me that I can come to you. Give
            me an increasing ability to take hold of that for which you have already taken
               hold of me.    Amen”

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