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10 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
If it helps anyone today, Jesus said, Take up your cross & follow me, not Take up your Twitter & get people to follow you. So you lost followers. This is social media. Not the meaning of life. “Are [we] now seeking the approval of man or of God? Or [are we] trying to please man?”
Fellow leaders, there’s this little game some folks will play. They’ll inflate what you once meant to them so that, when they tell you how disappointed they are in you now, you’ll have further to drop.

“I ADORED you and now I have lost ALL respect for you.”

For starters,...
Nobody has any busy adoring any of us. Adoration is for God. He alone can handle it. Anybody who adores us can in one single instant abhor us.

We are all going to mess up. Misspeak. Say too much. And disappoint people. And we’re all going to have to get over it. Start today.
Follow Jesus closely. KNOW HIM. Keep your face in the Scriptures. Learn what Jesus is like & what compelled and repelled him. Then, by the power of the Holy Spirit, let THAT mind be in you. Let Him shape HIS convictions in you. Then stick by those convictions with all your might.
Anyway, I’ll tell you when to start getting worried: When you start gaining followers. Anybody who thinks being “known” is fun hasn’t been known long enough.
PS. That insight on how some people will inflate what you once meant to them came from my daughter @AmandaMoJo on a phone conversation yesterday. It was the truth if I’d ever heard it.

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Jonah 1-2 today. Word of the Lord comes to Jonah: “GET UP! Go to Nineveh.” Next verse: “So Jonah GOT UP (way to hop to it, bro!) to flee to Tarshish (bro, wrong way!) from the Lord’s presence (um, tough gig).” Gets on a ship. Furious squall. Sailors: “GET UP! Call to your god!”
1. Sometimes God says GET UP & GO.
2. So we get up & flee.
3. A lot of running from God is running from obedience. I mean, we want to do things for God and all but not THAT thing. We want to work with people we like. People like us.
4. The thing about winds & waves is they obey.
One of the best parts of chapter 1 is when Jonah, having confessed to causing the storm, says to the sailors, “Pick me up & throw me in.” Dude, you could jump in. Jonah’s obviously holding on for dear life because they’re unable to bring themselves to do it. So they try rowing.
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Finished the book of Amos this morning in my reading. I was reminded how powerful, by God’s grace and providence, intercession can be! Ch 7 - The Lord showed Amos the judgment He was about to bring. Amos cried out, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is...
so small?” THEN “The Lord relented concerning this. ‘It will not happen,’ He said.” The Lord AGAIN shows Amos a call for judgment. “Then I said, ‘Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he’s so small?’ The Lord relented concerning this. ‘This will not happen either.’”
When the rebellion refuses to relent after numerous warnings, God does ultimately bring calamitous consequences but God heard & honored Amos’s prayers & delayed judgment & significant suffering. Satan is enormously invested in you continuing to think your prayers don’t matter.
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Finished up 1st & 2nd Thess in my morning reading & turned back to the OT. (I go back & forth between the two) In Amos today. Remember, 1 reason among many to read the OT prophets is the enormous insight they lend into what greatly pleases & displeases our very attentive God.
Amos 4 lists a series of circumstances God brought upon His people so they’d look to him. In each case, he repeats the words “yet you did not return to me.” (5X) So he says the chilling words, “Israel, prepare to meet your God! He is here: the one who forms the mountains, creates
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Isaiah 61 today. I’ll never be able to read it without turning to Luke 4. Jesus returns from the wilderness of temptation in the power of the Spirit (that’ll preach right there) and heads to Nazareth where he grew up. Enters synagogue as usual on the Sabbath. Stood up to read.
Now, several practices would’ve already taken place in the order of synagogue service by this time. The congregation would’ve recited the Shema then a set of prayers including the 18 Benedictions. Someone then would’ve read from the Torah (the Law) in Hebrew translated to Aramaic
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Do not even try to make me unhappy this morning. It is 56° on a cloudless morning in my corner of Houston Texas and I have greeted every tree, every vine, 2 dogs, 1 hawk, 1 owl, 8 cows and 1 fine donkey in the happy name of Jesus on my before-work walk in the country already.
Of course, some of you don’t think Jesus is happy. You’re gonna be shocked 1 of these days when you enter into your Master’s happiness. We’ve never once been miserable enough to wreck his day. This is the day the Lord has made. This 1 right here.I’m gonna rejoice & be glad in it.
And, anyway, if this calf does nothing for you, I can’t help you.
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Isaiah 53 this morning. 1st chapter of Scripture I ever memorized. Recited it in the 6th grade in a church service as part of the completion of a girls’ missions course. Didn’t fully understand it, of course, but this I knew: the OT foretold Christ’s suffering in alarming detail.
This masterpiece actually begins in Is 52:13. That section’s needed because the poem contrasts the Servant’s exaltation & humiliation. There we are told he would be “successful” & greatly exalted but only after grotesque disfigurement. Think of Is.52:13-53:12 as the OT’s Phil 2.
Shelves of books are written about this poem. I’ll stop at quoting some verbal phrases this AM.
He, our Christ, our one and only, was
...so disfigured he did not look like a man...despised & rejected by men... pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities.
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