Brother Kire, this is so like GOD.
I just came off of reading worm's post and I felt so broken inside I didn't know which way to turn. I was broken because he was broken. So I just hit the SI Sign on top of the page as usual to return to the Homepage and their was T. A. Sparks looking at me on the homepage photos.
Most times when my attention is "drawn" there, it's someone who would speak to my heart at that very moment.
I don't take 'ANYTHING' as coincidence, because GOD is so Omniscient and all that I don't think HE wastes a mila-second in anything that happens around HIS children, most especially. But I also feel that is the case for all of His creation and when they meet Him, they'll know it either in a marvelous way or a dreadful way, that HE was "always" constantly speaking.
Anyhow, I found SI looking for Sparks and then you mention brother Lars, so I went to his profile to see where he went and found this thread ... and all of this happening within seconds.
https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=3767&forum=34&start=0&viewmode=flat&order=0
GOD works in less than mila-seconds because of His omnipotence and all, but HE slows things down a tad for us to catch on, if we're even listening or trying to see HIM in everything.
Well, we're "following the Lamb" and that was a great song I heard but I never heard it again.
Someday I'll go digging for it. John 10.
He's working all of this out. He's bringing His elect out of their 6 senses to look upon Him in this dark and evil world. To exist and work here to rescue those in darkness, yet still have our feet seated in Heavenly places, beyond time and space.
Our temptation is to just shut ourselves in with HIM alone, like protestant Monks, because the nitty gritty of humans who are suppose to carry His likeness but can't fully yet, don't get along ... so they want to go hide in some monestary type state ... but we're not called to do that .... we're called to make every effort to be ONE BODY and not seperatists and to love in action-wise.
We're suppose to deal patiently with those who are weak and hurting in The Body, even if their weaknesses are repulsive to us. Snatching them out of the fire as Jude said.
I'm broken for the lost, but my biggest burden are for the ones in the Body that are injured, even if the injury is from their own doings.
I'm human too as are the rest of us, that goes without saying, so we can't do this "Walk" without His Agape Love being infused into us by our "searching Him out". There's no other way to be "divine" so to speak.
We're all growing together ... but we can't grow unless we see HIS Hand in everything around us --- and it's all to grow us into His Image ... [b]everything[/b].
Even a bird that flys past our window as we're looking out at our car ... everything is in His control and speaking constantly. The bird is just to get our attention so we'll ask, "What Lord ?"
I don't think one of us are here except by divine appointment ... and just to bring us into HIS Image. Period. The workings out of The Body is to that aim.
LORD Bless All of us to see Him in every single thing we see & hear and every single person we meet. Only by Love will we be transformed.
Alleluia to our LAMB. The Great Shepherd of His Sheep.
