“Though a time of discipline is coming, know that it is meant to free you from your many years of bondage.”
Jesus in The Temple of Aphrodite
MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
- Shepherding my orphans & guardians
- Without trying to control them
- Or letting them control me
Spirit Approach Memo
I am… in a dark alley.
This is a cruel city
I am a foreigner
And a spy
Those who rule here
Would pay dearly
To capture or destroy me
If they knew my purpose
I listen for the Spirit.
He says:
“Look for the darkest place
For that is where
I most long to dwell”
I see a green door
Small
Unlocked
I hesitate
I hear the footsteps
Of a marching patrol
An officer
Telling his men to search
I realize
The cowardly move
And the obedient one
Is to enter the door
The cowardly move
And the obedient one
Is to enter the door
I clutch my cloak around me
Glance to make sure I am unseen
And slip inside the door…
To be continued
Reflection
I feel…
- Furtive
- Foolish
- Exposed
- Risking
- Danger
Scripture
Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia and said to them, “Go and look at the land, particularly at the city of Jericho.” So the men went to Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.
Joshua 2:1-7 NCV
Someone told the king of Jericho, “Some men from Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.” So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house. They have come to spy out our whole land.” But the woman had hidden the two men. She said, “They did come here, but I didn’t know where they came from. In the evening, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know where they went, but if you go quickly, maybe you can catch them.”
(The woman had taken the men up to the roof and had hidden them there under stalks of flax that she had spread out.) So the king’s men went out looking for the spies on the road that leads to the crossings of the Jordan River. The city gate was closed just after the king’s men left the city.

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