Radically Happy

“The inverse of the Great Truth
that I am Nothing without God”

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Reheating my cold heart

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Closer

I am… swarming.

The broken pieces of myself
Sneak through the forest
Hunting my adversary quarry
But mostly wounding each other
(sabotaging our selves)

I look for Jesus.

His hawk-form had disappeared
When shot by my quarry
Who thought He was me

I cannot see Him
With my eyes
So I close them
And listen
With my heart

At first
All I hear
Is the beating of my heart

But overlaid on that
Is another rhythm
Like a sonar

As I turn
The signal becomes stronger
And weaker

But still very soft
Easy to miss
Frequently overwhelmed
When my heart gets noisy

Finally

I locate Jesus.

I open my eyes

All I see in front of me
Is a scarecrow
But when I look at it
The signal is strong enough
I can hear it with my eyes open

Is this Jesus?
Is He hiding behind it?
I am just imagining all this
And is it really a trap?

It does not matter what I think.

What matters
Is that I act
On the information given
When I look to Jesus for help

If I am wrong
It is the best mistake I can make

Better
To be a fool for Jesus
Than wise in my own eyes

Better
To be a fool for Jesus
Than wise in my own eyes

I fix my eyes
On what my heart heard
Ignoring my fragmented selves
And the threats of the enemy

And step out in faith…

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Brainless
• Ridiculous
• Trusting
• Vulnerable
• Risky
• Led
• Heard
• Seen
• Listening

Scripture

“Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭48‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬