Call me Martha

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Ezekiel 18:32 (NLT)
32 I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign Lord. Turn back and live!

Proverbs 10:9 (NLT)
9 People with integrity walk safely, but those who follow crooked paths will be exposed.

John 11:25-26 (NLT)
25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”

Do you believe this Martha? Helloooooo? Eh, Martha, do ya hear me? God is sitting right here asking you to believe.

They are saying “if you’d only have been here Lazzarus would still be alive”, as he’s saying “I got this”. I can imagine Christ saying something like “dang it” or “arrrrrgh, don’t ya get it” or “WTH people”.

Sounds similar to the world today. Christ is still saying I got this as we struggle to get it and control our lives. He claims to be the resurrection and the life. We look and say “yeah, yeah, I got that, you’re God, yeah, yeah – don’t you see what’s going on? Do something!”.

He has done something and continues to do so. We just need to take the cotton out of our ears and put it in our mouths to understand the gravity of our situation and the blessing He as provided.

Romans 3:23-24 (NLT)
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

2 thoughts on “Call me Martha”

  1. Revo… I don’t get to your blog often enough… one of the downsides of not having a data phone, but i do find thoughtful and helpful perspective in your writings. Thank you. Further, I just re-read your your “mandate” or maybe it is a “credo” to the Just Broken Blog… truely a beautiful and maybe raw description of the foundation that is your life, where you have been and where your path is leading. I can only hope to get clear enough to put to print my “credo” as well. Good works brother.

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46