The Plumbline

Let the word of the Anointed One richly inhabit your lives. With all wisdom teach,  counsel,  and instruct one another. (Colossians 3:16 VOICE) To inhabit, one must first "move in".  To inhabit implies the place of really "dwelling" somewhere.  You don't "inhabit" things which have not "become habit" in your lives.  In fact, what you just casually pass by never really becomes your place of "habitation" - it is merely a nice place to visit or take in along your way to wherever it is you are headed.  When we allow the Word of God to "inhabit" or "move into" our lives so as to take up permanence there, we are opening ourselves up to a whole bunch of new possibilities.  I recently cleaned the garage cabinets (at least most of them) - a project I rarely do, but which proves we keep way more than we really need!  In that cleaning project, I found out a couple of things, but mostly that I had "inhabitants" i...

Listen, open your ears, harness your desire to speak, and don’t get worked up into a rage so easily, my brothers and sisters.   (James 1:19 VOICE) Sometimes the hardest thing we are called upon to do is just be quiet long enough to hear somebody else share their worries, intentions, fears, or ideas.  We "scroll ahead" in our minds, coming up with the right answer, catchy come-back, and the like, often totally missing what the other person is actually saying.  To "open our ears", some might say we have to shut our mouths, but I don't think simply shutting the mouth opens the ears.  We have strong winds here in Arizona at times, but closing the door doesn't keep the wind from blowing - it just stops the wind from getting in. We can shut our mouths and still have our minds working a mile a minute to come up with that come-back, or the idea that will "one up" the other guy! Look what our passage implies: We have to "harness" the desir...