Message #3645

[ecuworrier]

olk so if i don't think mucho of the evangelist's efforts what of my own///

well.... it feels rather like this all happened a bit by accident,,, it started fine.... you see this treasure hunting milarkey resonates on and on.... like you finish a shift when well one or both have had quite enough excitement for one day.... however look at your sheets there's always something not quite crossed off.... usually some names well it has been with us.... the day after our last effort i found myself at a gig.... and there was an acquaintance of mine and.... there they were sporting a garment from my trhting partners sheet and they had the same name an unusual one from that same sheet.... my eyes went wide .... i was dying to tell them ... well they had left before i had the chance.... and then they turned up again at another time another place .... and by the third time this had happened oh brother well this time i got the chance to speak to them again... amazingly they again had same garment so i ventured the peculiar tale of said sheet.... together we backtracked to the when i saw them first time ... and there was a kindov pause.... turns out we had trhunted the day before and this person had had an important event that they were involved with where they were leading some other folks who had been meeting to prepare for this on a regular basis leading up to the event,,,, this person had had a peculiar lead up to the event filled with challenging stuff and was filled with some apprehension about the actual event as well as how it was going to go for the others... and much to their surprise it went really well.... they said i could tell my trh partner that.... at that point we were at a bus stop waiting for their bus to come ... i asked them if there was anything they needed prayer for ,,, and they thought then said what about you ..... i was a little surprised by that and started to tell the self described agnostic about well i was trying to say that hey as a christian its part of my life to offer prayer and rabbitted on about the process of trhi-ng and then... well started talking about Jesus like what Jesus did and talked about Jesus standing there and Healing the five thousand that really we should be doing that as christians and like that's what we .... did i say we will be one day? the bus came the person gratefully lept onto it and me i was feeling seriously bemused......  to have a conversation left at that point...... i looked for GOD who was beaming down... as i relate this here i can only say ...  er was that my prayer request?  what was coming up for me was hey well look this trhunting thing is really cool but there must be a closer place to Jesus and GOD the Father surely? as well as trying to say hey you know what christians is not really qyute at where/// well the potenial the potentiate of GOD is... well you know i have had conversations with this person before.... so i guess GOD is on theri case....   am i mad? though.... after the bus had gone i continued my walk along this road and had an uncomfortable recollection of evangelising once before.... a few years previously and it was pretty close to after seeing the Lonnie Frisbee video and i met one of my then nonchristian pals and they were really open to hearing what i had to say and there i was in a rare moment of full flow when this third person came along and inexplicably wacked them so hard they nearly fell over... then walked away and whacked the next person they met and ran away.... it was a very weird moment indeed and it left me feeling well....  embarrassed? really well and utterly confused.... i prayed for the Healing of their injury but hey! though i did flow out some GOD lateral for a friend of theri flat mate....  ok so am walking down this same street with the memory and striding along amidst the miscellany of the folks who were about was someone clearly not having a good day and having plenty to shout at everyone about and wave theri guitar in an aggressive and confrontational fashion ... they were out of it ok and as i passed them i started to pray and continued to pray as prayer was apparently having well what sort of effect? actually it was sort of having effect of sorts... though when they decided to take on the traffic as well i was begining to wonder ... eventually they seemed to continue theri journey peaceful well as far as i watched anyway... oh dear!!  this just feels complete contrast to me the talking about the bible a few minutes previous.....oh dear

i do feel though challenged...

since then i was sitting with another associate we were talking about freedom what does freedom mean and that immediately made me think of the way i hear christians going on about freewill.... again we have chatted previously.... freewill like it was only ever going to get us into serious trouble and yet Jesus is all about freedom the Gospel is about setting free aND IN EFFECT LETTING LOVE LIVE....  like in the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh the Day of Favour of the Lord seems to me all about is about setting free from bondage well for me Freedom was not something to be feared ,,,, i felt i had a sense that it was a really GOOD thing outside of the cultural religious teaching which all goes to make us feel really bad about not conforming and smug but out of touch for those that confom (just musing here again) and relational human mind heart entrapments.... my associate at one point pointed out that words don't do it.... they compared a neat and borrowed analogy about a map not being the same as the territory.... i liked that.,... i especially  jghad a bit of a sigh moment in that.... i had kindov wandered into that place and there i was to my own ears sounding like a religious nut.... yup words don't do it ,,,,, words is not the same as GOD;s Territory ..... hey i like that!   i went back to quote CSI mysteriously i feel..... yup i said people sometimes lie ==and as my associate had already observed they can[t do more than draw maps with their words .... whgich should be sufficient actually?.... at the end of the day the journey is our own....==but the evidence never does .......   do i suddenly feel in the way or what?/////  interestingly as soon as we start comparing ourselves to others on the basis of our inadequacies..... or theirs we make it all about ourselves our entrapments our inadequacies.... really we need to start getting on with GOD..,..  rather more than i appear at present.....

and as for this week's treasure hunting bizarrely or not it's been moved twice already

GOD rounds the circle.... what with all the confusion of what happens where.... earlier i find myself backtracking to pop into a church with an open door.... someone is there not unusual /// earlier that day they had thought of me and sent a message of love via somebody who had popped in from my church.... and here i was to exchange messages of love and Jesus' Love in person before that happend ... i like that it is something of GOD's LOVE in tghat! but GOD is somehow like that!  ... andnow look forward to discover whether the messenger manages  to deliver the greeting


GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,