HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY January 2–8, 2023

Post on 21 January, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

Jan­u­ary 2, 2023
Mon­day, Mon­day, it’s March­ing Order Monday…
#428 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Octo­ber 10, 2022 I love this one: *Cul­ti­vate a sense of awe and won­der. The human ten­den­cy is to close down, not to open up. I see this in two com­mon expres­sions, one inter­nal­ly direct­ed and the oth­er exter­nal­ly. “That’s just the way that I am.” “It is what it is.” Awe and won­der are always open and ready to receive.

Jan­u­ary 3, 2023
Golf Tuesday…
#429 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Tues­day, Decem­ber 5, 2022 I shot a won­der­ful round of golf today. If you give a golfer an open­ing, he’ll tell you about every shot in a round. Don’t wor­ry. I’ll just record my post-round rev­e­la­tion: Golf, like life, is sup­posed to be a spir­i­tu­al exercise.

Jan­u­ary 4, 2023
#430 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 16, 2022 “There is nei­ther Jew nor Greek, There is nei­ther slave nor free man, there is nei­ther male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gala­tians 3:28) Those are pret­ty wide gulfs Paul is describ­ing there. I believe if he were writ­ing today he might add “…nei­ther black nor white, nei­ther rich nor poor, nei­ther het­ero nor gay…” The key words come at the end: “…you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Jan­u­ary 5, 2023
#431 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, Novem­ber 10, 2022 “Time is mon­ey.” That is a hor­ri­ble state­ment. It implies that the best thing I can do with my time is to use it to gen­er­ate income. But maybe I am look­ing at it wrong. Maybe time is MY mon­ey, my cur­ren­cy, the most valu­able com­mod­i­ty I have to spend on the remain­der of my jour­ney. Min­utes and sec­onds are my dol­lars and cents. Wow. I had bet­ter start being more judi­cious in how I am spend­ing my time. Teach me to num­ber my days, Lord Jesus, that I may gain a heart of wisdom.

Jan­u­ary 6, 2023
#432 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 7, 2022 Anoth­er truth God is impress­ing upon me: The jour­ney is every­thing. My broth­er did some inde­pen­dent trav­el­ing on the West Coast recent­ly, and I told him he was on a spir­i­tu­al journey…which he took with a grain of salt. Now he’s off to vis­it his son on the East Coast and then an old friend from high school he has­n’t seen in years. That is a spir­i­tu­al jour­ney. A spir­i­tu­al jour­ney is even more fun when you know you are on it. I would give up every­thing I have to remain on my spir­i­tu­al journey…eventually I will. The most glo­ri­ous thing about the spir­i­tu­al jour­ney is know­ing where it ends…

Jan­u­ary 7, 2023
#433 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Thurs­day, Octo­ber 19, 2022 God has already giv­en me a men­tor, a retired pas­tor from church. Now He has giv­en me a spir­i­tu­al comrade–an old friend who enjoys dis­cussing spir­i­tu­al things (church doc­trine, per­son­al rev­e­la­tion, what the Bible means, etc.) as much as I do. We dis­agree about some things, but we respect each oth­er’s opin­ion. God uses him to bal­ance my some­times rad­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tions. Anoth­er exam­ple demon­strat­ing that God will pro­vide me what I need along my journey.

Jan­u­ary 8, 2023

#434 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Fri­day, June 9, 2022
Bud­dha’s final words: Strive unceasingly.
Jesus’s final words: It is finished.
I get it! This is not com­pet­i­tive or com­par­a­tive. I love Bud­dha. There is a pro­gres­sion in human­i­ty’s spir­i­tu­al jour­ney. Jesus is the ful­fill­ment of Bud­dha’s quest. As the Bible put it: “Cease striv­ing and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

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