The Plumbline

If you have ever studied the life of Moses, you will find he was a man who was not afraid to speak his mind with God.  He was "real" with God - sharing both his frustrations and his exultation.  He never minced his words - he shot straight from the hip. I think God probably honored this kind of openness and transparency and blessed his leadership of Israel as a result.  There are times when we get so frustrated with the length of time it takes to get ourselves from step "A" to step "B" in this process we call "restoration" or "transformation", right?  I wonder what God would do if we were so totally humble and honest with him like Moses was?  Maybe we would come to see the delay is really a part of the process - it is a time when we purify our emotions, see our thought patterns change, and get rid of a whole lot of dead wood in our lives.  I kind of like the words below, because they express the frustration of Moses' heart.  The pe...

1-6   God , investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.    I'm an open book to you;   even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.    You know when I leave and when I get back;   I'm never out of your sight.    You know everything I'm going to say   before I start the first sentence.    I look behind me and you're there,   then up ahead and you're there, too—your reassuring presence, coming and going.    This is too much, too wonderful—I can't take it all in!   (Psalm 139:1-6) Without reservation, most of us would admit that there are "chapters" in our lives that we'd like no one to read.  We have some failures we'd rather no one really knew about, dreams that seem kind of silly when considered by others, and problems with memories that we just cannot seem to let loose of no matter how hard we try.  These "pages" of our lives are inscribed through the passage of time and the events of t...