HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME November 29–December 5, 2021

Post on 6 December, 2021 by Dallin Malmgren

Novem­ber 29, 2021
#29 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, August 27, 2021 Our 44th wed­ding anniver­sary. God said “The two shall become one” and we are still on that amaz­ing jour­ney together.

Novem­ber 30, 2021
#30 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Octo­ber 28, 2021 “…in Him we live and move and have our being…” (Acts 17:28–one of my very favorite vers­es!) I expe­ri­enced a dif­fer­ent sense on the golf course today. My usu­al approach is that Jesus is with me, like rid­ing in the golf cart, and I’ll car­ry on a conversation–mainly a monologue–with Him. But God has been impress­ing upon me that the Holy Spir­it is in me, and that He cre­at­ed every­thing around me, and that Jesus is the Way. It has a light­en­ing effect. Noth­ing (good shot, bad shot) mat­ters as much, but every­thing (breathe in, breathe out) mat­ters more. A fun round of golf.

Decem­ber 1, 2021
#31 My next three entries were all inspired by a won­der­ful book called A Tes­ta­ment of Devo­tion by Thomas R. Kelly:
HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2021 ” Once hav­ing the vision (the vision being the real­iza­tion of Jesus’s pres­ence) the sec­ond step to holy obe­di­ence is this: Begin where you are. Obey now. Use what lit­tle obe­di­ence you are capa­ble of, even if it be like the grain of a mus­tard seed. Begin where you are. Live this present moment…in utter, utter sub­mis­sion and open­ness to Him… Keep up a silent prayer. “Open Thou my life. Guide my thoughts… Thy will be done.” Walk on the streets and chat with your friends, offer­ing your­selves in com­plete obe­di­ence. I find this inter­nal con­tin­u­ous prayer life absolute­ly essential.”

Decem­ber 2, 2021
#32 Sec­ond entry inspired by Thomas R. Kel­ly’s A Tes­ta­ment of Devotion:
HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 14, 2021 I was play­ing bad­ly and this was our Club Cham­pi­onship, so I was inter­nal­ly frus­trat­ed. But I already know that golf is a spir­i­tu­al exer­cise and any par­tic­u­lar result does­n’t mat­ter in the grand scheme of things. On hole #13 I remem­bered the third and fourth steps to holy obe­di­ence. Step #3: …if you slip and stum­ble and for­get God for an hour…don’t spend too much time in anguished regret and self-accu­sa­tion, but BEGIN AGAIN, just where you are. Step #4: Don’t grit your teeth and clench your fists and say, “I will! I will!” Relax. Take hands off. Sub­mit your­self to God. Not that it mat­ters but I played the last six holes very well.

Decem­ber 3, 2021
#33 Third entry inspired by Thomas Kel­ly’s A Tes­ta­ment to Devotion
HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 15, 2021 I am very much caught up with this idea of “holy obe­di­ence.” This is undeniable–what God wants for you in every sin­gle sit­u­a­tion is what’s best for you and for every­one else involved. But we so fre­quent­ly allow our own self­ish inter­ests to come to bear. As we become aware of His pres­ence, we sense what He would have us do or say or think–respecting His wish­es is holy obe­di­ence. It is always the best choice.

Decem­ber 4, 2021
#34 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Novem­ber 2, 2021 I tend to be a pro­cras­ti­na­tor. Fre­quent­ly I can be sit­ting in my study watch­ing sports or read­ing or work­ing a cross­word, when I will real­ize there is some­thing I should do–little stuff like fin­ish­ing the din­ner dish­es or tak­ing out the trash or walk­ing the dog. If I both­er to con­sult God, His answer is invari­ably the same: Do it now. Not as an ulti­ma­tum or author­i­ta­tive­ly or insistent–more like advice. And if I respond, i feel good when I have com­plet­ed the task. You might say that’s not God’s voice, that’s my con­science. But where did my con­science come from?

Decem­ber 5, 2021
#35 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 16, 2021 Today my res­o­lu­tion of holy obe­di­ence led to: mak­ing cof­fee, clean­ing the kitchen, walk­ing the dog, going to my grand­daugh­ter’s soft­ball game, clean­ing the garage with Karen, tak­ing dona­tions to our local char­i­ty, and read­ing the Bible on the back porch. I won­der how many of those things I would have done with­out the resolution?

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