Where does one start?
This is the stage in a process of reconciliation where someone has to make the first move… So here goes… “It is nice to see you again, you have aged well!”
Okay, I know it has only been some 7 days since my last piece of serious [using that word loosely] posting, but when the nights are dark, and the days are lonely, time is nobodies friend.
Therefore, break out the carbonated fizzy drinks, because it is back to reading the made righteous, of the sometimes acting righteous, rumblings, ramblings,and ruminations of the Jonny King am I!
Just in case you’re thinking that all this “wordsmithlessness” is a tactic to induce altered states of readership… “How dare you?”… I am a man on a mission, after all, and the pursuit of perfection is found in Christ who has payed the price I could never pay, to give me the life I could never earn, which assures me of a future I could never dream of, and with all this in mind, I am going Soli Deo Gloria for the “Fame of His Name,” which is a rather long-winded way of saying that I am pursuing you to pursue Christ, so that in our present pursuit together we would have double the fun, as God is most glorified in us, when we are most glorified in Him [John Piper], which means that there is nothing wrong with pursuing your greatest pleasure under the Sun, as long as this destination is in the Son!
Now that I have wowed you with words without end, I will get to the point of this posturing!
The last assignment has been finished, the final words have been written, the word count succumbed… finally and just… and the grace of God was experienced in a tangible way that deserves some reflection…
For regular readers… or is that interpreters?… of the King’s more verbose offerings, anyway, for those who have fought this fight, these people will have some understanding of the health history on this blog record of the Jonny boy, which has played a leading role in his recent history, impacting plans retrospective and prospective!
I take you back some eight days, with the reality of a deadline coming into view on the Friday. It was clear that time was mocking me, and I am no creamed… puff… One knew that if God would not answer this bankrupt-to-do-anything-about-it redeemed individual, He would be left to pay the assignment bill, with no money in the inn! Therefore, my prayer at the time was this… “God, if you want me to complete this assignment >paper, if you want me to study, you are going to have grace me with what I need, because if I do this in my own strength, the academic form of the special studying Olympics will not even accept me.” Well, I didn’t quite finish it like that, but you get the point?!
To further add to the exciting mix that I know you are sensing, reader… our two youngest boys were a RX7 virus… Yes, the roto-virus, and don’t we all just love how that impacts the flow from either end! Therefore, this week, also became an illicit book affair, as I spent most of the week in my-our room, even sleeping with my books… strewn over the side where the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, is adorned, as she had to sleep in the lounge with the youngest who was in the worse shape!
Therefore, in the midst of this storm, the calm of God’s presence, gave me the best week of study for “He-knows-how-many-years,” as I was able to put in full days, and when courage and strength was needed in the trenches to make war with the evil-sickness-Lord, I was able to walk on, press in, and look up, knowing that He is my portion and my Strength, my hope, who proved again… like He ever needed it… to be my delivery Messiah.
What this means, is that when the time was nearing 5.00 pm Friday, with a word count of 4,500 +10%, I am Jonny King finished on 4,950, a perfect word count… if only that was the criteria for marking. Moodling my assignment, which is an unnerving reality, as one wonders if the mail, and the right mail will get through, I finished.
Assignment finished, paper done!
To be honest… No, I haven’t been lying to you so far… To continue with this philosophy, this was quite an emotional moment for this little King, as what had been the plans of mice and this man, which had seemed a like a bridge too far for so long, was now the wind beneath my wing-less wandering… plodding… as I was Thomas, seeing the proof of this dreaming, being nailed, marked for his majesty in my mind!
With the assignment down, Thanking God it was Friday, while Saturday was a-coming… the Football would be my date for the night, but this will have to wait for a post of its own, as I finish with a thinking thought for you…
Desiring God>Experiencing God is basic to who we are as His children. Sadly often this is framed in contexts, which make more of the act or moment, than the interaction, which outworks itself in the edification of self, by the grace of God, and the glorification of the Creator-Father-God! The result being that often our talk about such times becomes cheap, as we postulate with words without reality, resulting in further disconnection between what we crave and what we indeed experience.
Now there are many contexts where this can happen, and I want to focus on ONE…
I am not one for an overload of cheese… “Could have fooled me, Jonny King”… “Okay, then humour me a little!”
I have been in Church enough to hear sermons extolling Peter’s faith in getting out of the boat, as he made a watery way to the Master, only to look down [Matthew 14:22-33]. Now, while Jesus’ admonition to Peter was, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt,” it is also worth noting that for everything that Peter lacked, he also had the desire to do something!
Doing something for the glory of God, now there’s an idea this side of the Great Commission!
I am Jonny King has been reminded once again that often to experience God in a tangible way is the resultant effect of a righteous cause, where the child of God, in the belief that this is what God wants him/her to do, completes acts of Christ-likeness in a given context, which places him/her in the sphere where God acts, and by grace, they are swept along with the movement of God, as He glorifies Himself through frail, dependent, human beings like you… okay, me included!
If you are His, you are a blood brought child of Him-the-King, and He is not a person without a purpose for He wants you [Rom. 8:28]!
You are in His body, and His body is about getting the work done!
This week, I have experienced the grace of God in a tangible way, not because I deserve it, not because I have been rewarded for my hard work, but in walking into the movement of God, I have been taken along by His gracious current, where the effect is very much about being in His cause… and here’s the kicker, very often, because of our fraility, this means getting out of our boat, and walking into his, by faith, in the knowledge that this life is not about us, but Him!
If you want to experience God in a more tangible way, maybe you are asking the wrong question. Maybe the right question you need to answer is this… “What am I doing for Christ, how am I redeeming the time, what movement is my life witnessing to?”
Enoch knew God because He walked with God [Gen. 5:24], and it can be an amazing experience where God takes those who walk with Him…
Keep in step with His Spirit, you may just be surprised what life is like when you walk to the beat of His big base drum!
Until Next Time
I am Jonny King
November 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Check out my facebook page about Brittany and how it has caused great discusion. I welcome your on-line feedback! PEN
November 16th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Good to hear from you Mrs S!
Please feel free to unload your thoughts here or there as well!
I will have a read… as I have now located what you are referring to… I remember hearing about Miss Spears being in Aussie recently… well, the miming version, anyway!
Keep in Touch – For the Fame of His Name!
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Welcome back Jonny!
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Good to hear from ya Bob!
It’s good to be back! I am still getting into the swing of things after my study leave, so to speak, but things are beginning to flow again!
Look forward to connecting over numerous posts!