Radically Happy

Face your deepest desires/fears,
and you will have grace for theirs.

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Stepping into the battle
• Rather than just suffering around it
• (Hat tip to Joel McGill)

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from Refused to Yield

I am… conflicted.

My five friends are divided
From themselves
From each other
From me

I can relate.

Jesus has invited us
To surrender our idols
So He can destroy them
Free us
Reconcile us

Part of us
Wants that
Much of us
Fears that

And it tears us apart

I look to Jesus.

He says:

“I did not
Come to bring peace
But a sword”

From out of His mouth
He pulls
A double-edged sword

He points it at me.

And says:

“If you want to save
The hearts of your brothers
From the idols that control them
You must allow Me…”

“To cut yours out first!”

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Unreconciled
• Embattled
• Challenged
• Sacrificial
• Messy

Scripture

Instead, the Benjamites gathered warriors from all their towns to come to Gibeah and fight their brothers, the Israelites. On that day, the Benjamites gathered a force from their towns of twenty-six thousand armed men, not including the seven hundred elite soldiers of Gibeah. Among Benjamin’s elite troops, seven hundred were left-handed, and each of them could sling a rock and hit a target within a hairbreadth without missing.
The tribes of Israel had four hundred thousand experienced soldiers armed with swords, not counting Benjamin’s warriors.‬‬

‭‭Judges‬ ‭20‬:‭14‬-‭17‬ ‭TPT

Inspired by Courage to Conquer