HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY MAY 1–7, 2023

Post on 7 May, 2023 by Dallin Malmgren

May 1, 2023
#547 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Feb­ru­ary, 2023 “(love)…does not take into account a wrong suf­fered…” (I Corinthi­ans 13:5) As I observe a fam­i­ly con­flict, the wis­dom of these words rocks my soul. Note first “…a wrong…” — that means very def­i­nite­ly some­one has been treat­ed unfair­ly (at least in her per­cep­tion). Then note “…suf­fered…” –the result of this treat­ment has caused one pain. The obvi­ous truth: you hurt me. The mirac­u­lous kick­er: “…love does not take into account…” –no need for revenge, for resti­tu­tion, even for repen­tance. Clean slate, let’s move for­ward, I love you. Of course, this is impos­si­ble with­out the work of the Holy Spir­it, for it is out­side the realm of human nature.

May 2, 2023

#548 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Sleep depri­va­tion. I learned on my lat­est golf out­ing that sev­er­al of my senior friends suf­fer from insom­nia. Insom­nia scares me. I don’t expe­ri­ence it often, but when I do I feel help­less. I do not pos­sess the pow­er to make myself fall asleep. I try med­i­ta­tion and mantras and breathing–works some­times, does­n’t oth­ers. I have learned the most impor­tant thing is to main­tain a spir­i­tu­al connection–to not feel alone. He is here, whether I feel it or not. Through Him, I can han­dle this.

May 3, 2023
$549 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
April, 2023 The inner life. That is the point of empha­sis I believe is most lack­ing in the church­es I’ve attend­ed, and per­haps in the Chris­tians I know. The teach­ings of Jesus make it clear how I am sup­posed to inter­act with the world. How do I con­nect with God–when I am tired? when I am tempt­ed? how do I dis­tin­guish His voice from mine? how do I make wrong­ful thoughts go away? can my breath­ing draw me near­er? can I have con­trol of my emo­tions? what if I can’t sleep? how do I train myself to choose oth­ers over self? have I built any bar­ri­ers between myself and those I love? Those are impor­tant spir­i­tu­al ques­tions that can only be answered by explor­ing the inner life.

May 4, 2023

#550 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Mourn­ing doves are my least favorite of the birds that come to our feed­ers. Ridicu­lous. The Holy Spir­it is depict­ed as a dove. I do much bet­ter at liv­ing in the present when I am absorb­ing, appre­ci­at­ing and admir­ing than I do when I am critiquing.

May 5, 2023
#551 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
Feb­ru­ary, 2023 After many read­ings, this still res­onates: “I am try­ing here to pre­vent any­one say­ing the real­ly fool­ish thing that peo­ple often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was mere­ly a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a lev­el with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else He would be the Dev­il of Hell. You must make your choice–either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a mad­man or some­thing worse. You can shut Him up as a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patron­iz­ing non­sense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” –from Mere Chris­tian­i­ty by C.S. Lewis

May 6, 2023
#552 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
March, 2023 Impres­sions. God speaks to me every­day, yet I’ve nev­er had a burn­ing bush or a voice from the heav­ens or a descend­ing dove. How do I know who I’m hear­ing? Who’s to say I’m not delu­sion­al? I know that I’ve asked Him to and I believe that He wants to. Of course, there are scrip­tur­al guide­lines… His voice comes to me in impres­sions, which I take to my heart and exam­ine. The rea­son it’s not hard to hear God’s voice is because God is love, and demon­stra­tions of love abound on this plan­et. I just have to open my eyes and lis­ten. And enjoy.

May 7, 2023

Fam­i­ly Sunday–my favorite day to post…
#553 HOW GOD SPOKE TO ME TODAY
MARCH, 2023 (Day 4 of Texas Malm­gren Fam­i­ly Reunion) I am struck by the immen­si­ty of God’s plan, the infini­tude of pos­si­bil­i­ties in the Riv­er of Life. There are 14 of us here, and though we are knit togeth­er in love by the beau­ty and sacred­ness of God’s orig­i­nal inspi­ra­tion called Fam­i­ly, there are also 14 sep­a­rate and dis­tinct jour­neys that are mere­ly inter­sect­ing at this point in space and time. Sev­er­al of these jour­neys are near­ing their end while some are only just start­ing. Only God can see all 14 of these jour­neys from begin­ning to end, right here right now. Ah, the won­der and glo­ry of this thing called life!

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