"Strengthen the Feeble Hands, Steady the Knees That Give Way."
Mario’s Smile
Sep 3rd
I have spent the better part of my life afraid to really open up and let someone know me because of the losses I faced in the past. I suffered the loss of my world when I left the island of my birth for a world I still have yet to understand. It was faith that kept me then and it is faith that keeps me now.
I went to Peru to work and somewhere in the back of my mind were the people I would meet. I shed not a tear for the work but still cannot stop crying for the people I met and loved. Not because of their condition but because I miss them and because what I did not seek, found me, moved me and touched me deeply. Intimacy, in this case, with near strangers. I cried till I thought my heart would burst and then, (how I do not know), I cried some more.
It was my own fault really. I went to Peru, defenses down, not expecting to be touched in this way. Prepared for hard labor and minimal comfort, not expecting to be loved so intensely or to find people so hopeful, buried in More >
Passion (part 1)
Apr 23rd
This is the key— not what I have discovered, but what I have been given a willingness to be cut by the Word of God an openness to being rent at the core an almost wild craziness and desperation for the coveted title of “Man after God’s own heart.” Acts 13:22 This, I have found is the key to personal spiritual growth.
I have lived for too long with the stifling stale sameness pushing and pressing all avenues searching for the minimum standards of Christianess how much I could get away with and still be Christian how little I could give up and still make heaven With this and all other relationships I have learned Minimum investment yields minimum returns. Mal. 3:10
And in minimum returns the real loser is me It is my spiritual atrophy and my anemic soul It is I, malnourished and weak who suffers from this self-serving bing My poverty clothed, but not hidden
PASSION comes not as a wave to those sleeping beachside But as an avalanche, overwhelms the mountainside It accompanies those who with wild abandon pick up their cross And without asking the destination chase after their Lord PASSION accompanies honesty Indeed it may be the flame lit More >
What Love Demands
Dec 9th
The Christian life is full of paradox. Marked by the contradictory nature of our own wills and the perfect will of God.
In order to live we must die.
Meaning, that if you are not willing to die you really do not understand the life that awaits and think too highly of the life you now hold. This is the paradox of life being gained only in dying. This is the Christian life.
To lose is to gain.
In this world of winners take all, we are hard pressed to accept the necessity of surrender in order to gain the true prize. But this is the way of the cross. The apparent loser is crowned King and the stubborn and proud are humbled. (Luke 9:25)
The rich will be poor.
To inherit the fullness of God’s righteousness we must in our own foolishness understand we are bankrupt. We are without currency to purchase life, nor skill to earn our own pardon. The wealth we have must mean nothing to us and the poverty we fear must become…friend. (2Cor. 6:10, 2Cor. 8:9, James 2:5 , Prov. 28:6, Prov. 28:11)
The Strong shall be weak.
In Christ our strength is His weakness and our weakness His strength. Because More >
No Care But Our Own
Oct 15th
If we did not have the sick And those crippled by disease We would have no need of compassion No care but our own
If we did not have the difficult The stubborn and rude We would have no need of kindness No care but our own
If we did not have the foolish Those lacking in wit We would have no need of patience No care but our own
If we did not have the harsh The hateful and cruel We’d have no need of gentleness No care but our own
But we do have the sick, the foolish, the rude And are commanded to love even the cruel It’s the purging of self that is His goal To teach us to care for more than our own
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.” Phil. 2:3
Copyright©1997 Hudson Russell Davis
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