Saturday, September 13, 2014

Past ponderings, can still be a present voice . . . (#3)

Please re-join me again, in my ongoing pondering . . . as I think along about thinking, and crystallise some thoughts . . .
Pondering is ruminating by another name, and more. See we all ponder when we think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion. Essentially, to ponder means, “to weigh in the mind, reflect, and consider with thoroughness and care.” Taking time to read the scriptures and pondering in the reading process is a great and intentional long-time habit.
Some time back along with lots of other folk at our church, I spent “40 days with Jesus.” Over that time, we engaged in daily readings of the life of Jesus. We read the text and daily note commentary, prayed a focused prayer, and pondered on what the “sound of the reading was voicing to us.” I then wrote what was the heart of my daily “hearings.”
Now, a couple of years hence, I’m still hearing—so, here’s the last of three posts considering some of the “ongoing ponderings of my 40 days of Jesus’ journey ” . .  .
  • “Allegiance to Jesus can cause division.” Should my allegiance to Jesus cause division, I must remember; “JCD, don’t reciprocate into self-justified mutual-alienation!” I can still choose to be open to those who are becoming “closed to me.”
  • “Faith’s an essential in my ongoing journey of “rediscovering the revealed Jesus.” I don’t merely review my existing knowledge and notions of the Jesus I know; I keeping meeting the Jesus I have never known. Hence, faith’s an essential.”
  • Responding to Jesus is a "new starting point;” It’s joining a journey of response - aka “encounter”.
  • Through walking more and more in Jesus’ love, I will build less and less barriers.
  • I can develop a passion to seek people – knowing the Jesus who lives in me has both passion for them and ability to save them . . . when I reach out with Jesus (and the Spirit) I engage in “Jesus seek-n-save-mission-method” - together we seek, solely He saves!!!"
  • If I have a heart for people and a passion for the right, God’s character forming in my character directs me in the wisdom of His ways. I will know what to do; I then have to choose to “do that wisdom!”