Five things I heard this week We mistake visibility for value   No woman ever…

God wants to be known. He is accessible—and readily so. We were created to be in relationship with him. God couldn’t stand that we were separated from him by sin. So much so, he sent his only son to reconcile us back to him.

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Signs and wonders mutate into idols when they lose the Spirit of Life—when they no longer point to Christ. We can take a sign that God initially uses to build our faith and create something more out of it. In my experience, we start looking for the sign instead of listening for voice of God. That’s how a sign or wonder turns into an idol.

Have you ever taken a first step toward something and then a flood of second guessing hits you in the face? In realizing it’s scarier and bigger than you thought, did you want to run back to safety? The picture that comes to mind is a diving platform. It’s one thing to climb the stairs, and it’s another to walk to the edge. But jumping off is a different thing altogether. All you want to do is run back to the safety of the ground, but you’re frozen on the edge or in the middle. While I’ve been out on a limb pressing on to know the Lord, I’ve second guessed my surroundings and have desperately wanted to be back in familiar places. I’ve wanted to retreat to ways I’ve heard the Lord in past seasons (familiar places), forgetting the promise of the pursuit—to know the Lord.

I’m taking a little break … be back August 2.

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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” (1 Corinthians 12:15-26)

We hear a kazillion things throughout the week. But we only really remember a handful of those things. Here are a few things that stood out to me this week:

a couple of weeks ago, after my talk-to-the-hand moment part of the day, I was praying and the phrase “temper my heart” came to mind and out of my mouth. This wasn’t a normal phrase that I use. I’m not even sure how it got into my database. (Maybe from a recipe where you temper eggs. Is that a thing?) It’s distinctiveness caught my attention, and I’ve prayed it a few more times over the Acorn Project. I decided I should look it up and see what it means since it was resonating so much in my conversations with the Lord.

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