Shorter today! I tested your patience on that long thread yesterday. All I really have this morning is amazement anyway. In Ezekiel 36 & being reminded of its fabulous juxtaposition to 37. So, you know 37. It’s where God has Ezekiel prophesy to the dry bones in the valley. But!->
Before God has him prophesy to the valley in 37, Ezekiel is told to prophesy to the mountains of Israel in 36. Mountains 1st then the Valley. And Ezekiel is to preach to the mountains themselves. They aren’t symbolic of people or nations in this vision. They’re actual mountains.
He has Ezekiel preach to them about how they have been trampled over & razed by the enemies & captors of His people. He tells Ezekiel to prophesy to them, “You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches & bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near...
Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you and you will be tilled and sown...I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” The mountains will know. He prophesied to mountains. Told them to get
prepared & green back up for the return of the exiles. He spoke to them as animate objects. As those with ears to hear. Behold the life-giving power of God’s words. What He addresses, He animates. His voice releases His very breath.

Study the Scriptures.
It does the Body good.
Y’all don’t make me have to keep going. On a walk in the woods. Lord’s reminding me of Isaiah 55 where he says, Let the people forsake their wicked ways & return to the Lord & he’ll have compassion. Says, as they return, the (animated) mountains will shout with joy. Ok, I’m done!

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29 Jan
“The hand of the Lord was on me & he brought me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones...and they were very dry. Then he said to me

‘Son of man,
can these bones live?’

I replied,

‘Lord God, only You know.’
“Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! I will cause breath to enter you and you will live. I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life.”
So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying,

there was a noise,

a rattling sound,

And the bones came together, bone to bone. As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew & skin covered them but there was no breath in them.
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28 Jan
We of Christian faith in America need a fresh pursuit of holiness in the worst way. There’s never a good nor inconsequential time for leaders to do foolish, scandalous things but I can’t imagine a worse time. This is a time for the slow work of earning back deeply-betrayed trust.
Since there couldn’t be a worse time, that means, to the prince of darkness, is the best time. Leader, your enemy knows you well & has a tailored plan designed for you. An effective, methodical scheme. He knows exactly where you’re vulnerable. Somewhere in plain sight,
think of writing these words:

DON’T BE STUPID.

I’m going to do the same. Unfortunately, we don’t outlive the capacity for stupidity.
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27 Jan
An Interrupted Dawn

A fresh sadness has cast its cold shadow over me. It caught me by surprise but not because I’m unaccustomed to flickering light. I’m too old to be unaccustomed to such common things. I’m not afraid. Just surprised. Surprised because I thought it was morning.
2020 was such a dark year. Like you, no doubt, the global darkness of the pandemic fell like a lead blanket over a personal season that would also throw a wool shawl over my man & me. Our 2 kids did just what they we’re supposed to do. They grew up. To our great fortune, we still
got to live a lot of family life. The halls of our house rang a constant ruckus. Grandchildren running, skating, cartwheeling, dancing, leaping, hiphopping, dog-ball-throwing, nerf gun launching. Adults eating, discussing, debating, arguing, discoursing and opining as Moores do.
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26 Jan
I love hearing different methods & approaches fellow saints, particularly time-tested ones, use in their spiritual disciplines. Today my friend @dpcassidyC3 shared verses he says each morning as he pours his coffee & begins his time with God. Inspired to share how I often start.
Please know these are the furthest things from virtue signaling. These are ways older men & women of the faith have learned to cling to Jesus for dear life because, this many years in, we are woefully aware how prone we are to wander & how weak, frail, vulnerable & sinful we are.
1st thing I do when I awake is have a brief time of worship & confession of sin. Then I pour my coffee & grab my spiral notebook & Bible. Then these are Scripture petitions the Lord led me to put together to pray regularly before I begin my Bible reading so I’m fully open to Him:
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25 Jan
“If Your instruction had not been my delight, I would have died in my affliction.” Psalm 119:92 is my story in a nutshell and why I will seek the hidden treasures of Christ’s wisdom & knowledge in the pages of Scripture all my days and do all I can to drag people into it with me.
I didn’t start studying the Scriptures in an effort to have my troubled mind renewed. I started studying Scripture because I took a Bible doctrine class from a man who loved God’s words more than anyone I’d ever encountered & I caught the fever from him & still haven’t recovered.
Studied day in, day out. Everything I could get my hands on. Drove my teacher crazy. He’d send me home with stacks of materials. Say he didn’t want to see me again till I’d gone through all of them. I’d show back up the next week for more. He was ultra conservative. I’m sure it
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19 Jan
Well, folks, the reason I haven’t been sharing many short clips from my morning readings lately is that, well, I’m in chapters 11-17 of Ezekiel. They involve complicated visions that don’t lend themselves to Twitter threads. But at the end of my reading today in Ezek 17,
God delivered a word to the prophet depicting a theme that may be uncomfortable but it’s not incomprehensible.

“I bring down the tall tree and make the low tree tall. I cause the green tree to wither and make the withered tree thrive. I, the Lord, have spoken and I will do it.”
God’s got this thing about pride. He does not let it go unchecked. When his people continue in arrogance after multiple warnings, he is going to bring them down. He will turn the tables. That which has been high will be brought low. This is why we are told by both James and Peter
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