Robin's Reflections

  This article is marvelous, even to the last sentence . It was first published in 1963, two days after his death.  His "last words", so to speak. THE WANING AUTHORITY OF CHRIST IN THE CHURCHES by A. W. Tozer HERE IS THE BURDEN of my heart; and while I claim for myself no special inspiration I yet feel that this is also the burden of the Spirit. If I know my own heart it is love alone that moves me to write this. What I write here is not the sour ferment of a mind agitated by contentions with my fellow Christians. There have been no such contentions. I have not been abused, mistreated or attacked by anyone. Nor have these observations grown out of any unpleasant experiences that I have had in my association with others. My relations with my own church as well as with Christians of other denominations have been friendly, courteous and pleasant. My grief is simply the result of a condition which I believe to be

God is not going easy on me...he reminds me AGAIN, of where my thoughts need to go. I use to think of this verse as a mind "filter"....any thoughts must be filtered thru this verse.  If the thought can pass through each of these things, then it can stay in my mind. Many, many thoughts flunk out! I have been spending a day or two on each word...purposefully looking for things that fit these words. What is pure?  God's word is the purest thing I know...He gave me this verse to mediate on,  "And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus."  Pure truth.  Keep it in your mind! Noble....that was a more difficult word to find...I kept thinking about the King that I serve.  I Chronicles 16:7-43 (NIV) David's Psalm of Thanks 16:8-22, Ps 105:1-15, 16:23-33,96:1-13,16:34-36,106:1,47-48 7 That day David first committed to Asaph and his associates this psalm of thanks to the LORD: 8 Give tha

Well, here we are seven months in to this missionary thing.  I always knew that being a missionary took great sacrifice. There is this thing called culture shock that I was told I would encounter.  I have and I am and it's not very enjoyable. I have not written on our family blog for months, because in reality I don't want to write what I know people want to hear-just to satisfy them and make them want to donate more.  It's like going to a festive party when you've just had an argument with your spouse (don't tell me you don't know what that feels like).  I don't like acting-(actually I LOVE acting, but only when it's FOR acting.) There are so many changes for a person to absorb on all levels, physically, emotionally and spiritually.  Food changes: things I've never seen, tasted or smelled before, guinea pig, intestines of who knows what, quail eggs, etc.  Things that I use to love but never see anymore (sour cream, ruby red squirt, marshmall