Fellowship with Christ; and Birds Singing
This was not a note, but a dialog on a Wall Post
Fellowship with Christ? I think a great deal is simply
people talking to themselves, because the scripture is omitted. All of His
conversation with me is in Scripture: either by reading, faithful preaching,
meditating, conversations with the godly. I talk to him in prayer. If Scripture
is left out of the formula, it becomes a form of inner dialogue.
Bud Powell 1John 1:1-5;
2Cor.3:13,14,18 Luke 24:27,32,44-48 1John 1:7; 2Tim. 3:16,17. Especially Rom.
15:3,4. [this includes the Old Testament]
Bud Powell "In his law doth
he meditate day and night." Ps. 1
Bud
Powell I see a bird singing. It makes me happy. I think Jesus is talking to
me. I feel good. That makes Him feel good.
Everybody feels good except the other birds who know why the bird is singing.
He is like a dog that marks his territory by peeing
everywhere. This bird is saying to other birds: "Stay out of here, or I
will tear your heart out and feed to my children." But he sings so
sweetly. :-) He feels good because he has done his job of warning the other
birds.
BTY, the bird also sings [its a male thing] because
he wants to have sex. That makes him feel good, too.
[I made up the part about feeding the baby birds. I
don't speak bird, so I just imagine. Makes me feel good, too.]
http://www.highlightskids.
Danielle
Kummerfeldt Stark Doc,
you are in rare form today! :) I like it! ♥
Bud Powell
Birds are also very
conservative. They chase away birds that might get their food, or their mates.
They are like union members in this. I don't know whether it is the food or the
sex that makes them feel good. They are like tv evangelists in this.
They are the opposite of Kinists, for the same
reason; they tolerate birds of other kinds but chase away their own kind.
You can get a buzz out of all this, if you are just
talking to yourself and never heard a bird sing, as my uncle used to say. [I
don't think he knew why they sang, either]. Nature is loving, gentle, and kind,
and you can learn a great deal about the love of God by studying nature--or
maybe you will have to read the Bible for THAT. [for the ironically challenged,
the last sentence is irony. I-RO-NY= "a usually humorous or sardonic
literary style or form characterized by irony." --Merriam-Webster.]
Bud Powell Yep. Gentle and loving and
kind. You would think so until you run across one of the vultures Jesus spoke
of. Matt. 24:8
Bud Powell It is easy to mistake your own voice for the
voice of God.
Bud Powell
Danielle. I like to read what I wrote. How would I know
what I think, if I didn't write it down? I just wish I didn't make so miny--meny--manny,
menny--many typos.
Bud Powell People DO take themselves
much too seriously. Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in
the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
Bud Powell Hi, Michael. Go to see you
read my stuff! :-)
Bud Powell I pray for your family. I
have to. I married you.
Danny Wyatt I like it all. I have never
been quite so satisfied or humored by the dialogue of one. Perhaps there are
other comments I simply can't see as is sometimes the case on FB, but it is
better this way anyway.
Bud Powell You can see the whole
dialogue at: http://basketoffigs.org/Fa
Bud Powell: The word
"meditate" in Ps. 1 means "to roar, growl, groan, to utter,
speak, to meditate, devise, muse, imagine"
It means basically to talk to yourself about the Scriptures. It is therefore mixed with prayer for the
study of Scripture and prayer are joined together. We must saturate our minds with Scripture which means there is a
price to pay in turning off the hundreds of ways we "amuse"
ourselves. "amuse" means
absence of thought and amusement wars against meditation. Turn off the TV, the football, the radio,
the things that fill our lives with noise and talk to yourself, a dialogue
which means hearing the scripture that you have hid in your heart and prayer to
God."
It means roaring, growling, groaning, speaking, devising, thinking,
imagining. It means roaring like a lion
over wickedness, groaning over your own wickedness, speaking truth in the
heart, putting away lies no matter how precious, devising new and better ways
of saying things, imagine yourself as a faithful witness in doing good things
and saying good things, just like the basketball player must imagine the ball
going in the basket when he shoots.
Playing the game in your mind.
Turn off the music for it is often a great distraction to meditating,
which requires that still, small voice that is downed out by the fire, the
earthquake and the hurricane.
Your love must be not on the earth, but on things above, where Christ
sits at the right hand of God.
There are other things, but this is enough for now. God bless.
