Two Mile Love – We're leaving the limits of mortal love and trusting the knowledge of God.

Two Mile Love

Passing the limits of mortal love and trusting the knowledge of God.

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Father,
May my words be helpful
for building others up
according to their needs,
so that what I say will be
a benefit to them.
(Ephesians 4:29)

Back to bed. The pain in my back holds fast and fu

Back to bed.
The pain in my back holds fast and furious. I’m wondering the worst. Three weeks is too long for me.
I normally heal up in days. Is it a mad kidney? Some foreign mass moving in? Paul rightly calls us a body of death. Sin lingering in skin, corrupting everything in its path.
The wonderful woman who feathers away dust is making her way through the house. Meticulously she shines our valuables—photos of grand-kids, tables where we break bread,
bow heads,
thank God for sustenance.
Scrubbing can leave a sink free of stain,
but how do we handle pain? There’s no carrying it out with the trash.
Wiping it clean with a rag.
I hear water runnng,
a rush of clean.
That’s how it will be once we leave. Back to Jesus.
A body bedded in lies, launched in truth.
Born in dishonor, carried to glory.
Rooted in weakness, pulled up in power.
The first man made of dust—the second Man raised for us.
Changed.
Death down the drain.

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Today I’m feeling full as the moon! I almost di

Today I’m feeling full as the moon!
I almost didn’t go. Monday morning lady’s study on Colossians
has me walking on air. Fourteen of us around a block of tables sharing the finest bread.
All of us loving the word of God like our life depends on it.
This is it.
Fellowship in the gospel.
Like never I knew
female friendship.
Hearing each other until we discover, we all think alike.
This faith thing is hard. How can we do it better? Stumbling over what we are—getting to who He is. Incapable of this holiness given through Jesus.
Us?
Our amazement searches each other’s eyes. Until we let ourselves own it.
It’s more than our heads can hold. The glory of God filling the temple, and no one is able to resist it. Spilling over and refilling us again and again and none of us wants it to end.

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Women have to ask for what they deserve. Is it fai

Women have to ask for what they deserve. Is it fair? No…it’s just a fact.

Achsah grew up learning her worth. She was the daughter of Caleb, a just man who feared the Lord and fiercely followed God’s commands. Caleb arranged for her to marry the one man who would capture Kiriath-Sepher—an entire city set to destroy God’s people. (This wasn’t gonna be your average son-in-law.)

Othniel was the lucky winner.

On the day Achsah was given to Othniel, she urged her new husband to ask her father for a field. Just as Caleb grants Achsah’s request, she gets off her donkey. “What do you want?” Her father asks—almost like he’s seen this look on her face before. Can you picture the scene? What bold moves Achsah makes. She doesn’t appear disrespectful, arrogant, or irresponsible. I can only assume this father-daughter relationship is a trusting one. Achsah is not afraid to approach her father, and Caleb knows by her body language alone—she wants something.

Listen to her confident answer, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb give me also springs of water.”

Was she greedy?

Let’s dig deeper: Fathers in Israel were required to leave an inheritance to their sons. It was the law. God’s way of providing for His people was depending on each other, within the family, and not the world for their survival. I think it’s safe to say Caleb had hefty sums set aside for the boys, but what about his girls?

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We volunteered our marital expertise for a marriag

We volunteered our marital expertise for a marriage preparation class and fought before every meeting. Tried talking couples out of the clouds. But it couldn’t be done—because there’s something overpowering about becoming one.

“The mystery which has been hidden for ages and from all generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col 1:26-27) [emphasis mine]

We were made to be one with God. Made to love God. It’s the craving we can never put our finger on. The hint of heaven on the tip of every tongue.

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