The Rumble of Our Grumble

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There goes the Lord again, pushing us outside our comfort zones. (I have multiple occurrences these days…)

SO, Here’s a POEM, the rumble of our grumble, we moan.


The Rumble of a Grumble 

WE MOAN, we get pushed out of our comfort zone 

It’s like we should appreciate something new, but grief we choose to spew. (Me too.)

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I do NOT think the Lord wants to throw me, He just wants to grow me.

Perseverance is the scriptural clue that God is talking to you. 

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And it’s our pride, God is taking for a ride. 

So buck up and buckle up, is God asking us to grow up?

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Maybe we have to be less full of self, and remember God started this whole world by HIMSELF. 

And HE keeps it spinning, His is the game He’s winning. 

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So pushed outside of our comfort zones, new things, hard things, confusion, we have MOANS.

But let us put on the brake, to the grief we ache.

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We, in tribulations, are instead to GLORY, but mostly we (I) say ‘Oh, Lordy’…

And we all must face, that we NEED God’s Grace. 

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And Romans 5 reminds us Jesus died for the ungodly too, and now us with faith, our Salvation He won’t let anything or anyone undo. Our lives are saved, we should not forget to Praise.

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So know God’s Plan, DOES include fallible man. Adam’s ban becomes Jesus’s fix it plan.

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We are to help too, spread the Good news to whomever God will choose. And He gives us GIFTS, to work hard against all faith rifts.

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We must get out of our comfort zone, and bless the areas He wants us to roam. Yes Lord, I’ll try to GROW, by FAITH let’s get on with the Show!

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Our hesitations are our sin, but You’ve got us Lord, we are to remember YOU WIN. And You Jesus will fill us, cover us, and bless us in GRACE, as we finish this life RACE (at YOUR pace). 

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Amen to begin PRAISING YOU again. The Rumble of our Grumble is to become but a fading faded din…

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Let us begin, again, and again. 

Amen Amen Amen 

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Romans 5 NKJV

Faith Triumphs in Trouble

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Christ in Our Place

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—  (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)

Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD, Amos 4

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It’s gratitude, not attitude, the Lord God Almighty wants compliance over complaining. Listening over lame excuses. We should be thankful for we do know God’s thoughts in His scriptures. We do know what mercy is. And we should know that without God’s mercy and grace, we would not be running this race. Really, how many times do we know this already, but God wants us to know Him intimately, really know, Him. Intimate not ignorant.

He is truly reminding us to be ready to know Him one day at His judgment throne, but really to know Him as ALMIGHTY ALREADY.

Israel’s people in the wayward days and years, hundreds of years, as re-told by Amos, prophet during the divided kingdom years, called out the obvious – the people would actively sin but make the sin offering sacrifices as rote duty, then go back sinning and worshipping other gods. They were arrogant, not ignorant. They knew better. They did not act better. Their history included prophesy of a Savior in David’s line, a rescuer and ruler. So paying attention to the real and realness of God is required.

We should know this too. We should keep God in our undivided devotion. Does this mean we don’t live? No, contrary, it means we live ACTIVELY and live actually more ABUNDANTLY, knowing our job is to LIVE and LOVE, so we love VIGOROUSLY and with VITALITY and PURPOSE.

Best phrases in the Bible include this one, told to the troubled souls: “PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD!”… Well, surely our Savior in Jesus calls our names and saves.

Yes, Amos knew we and others needed this truth for reminding us of God’s power.
“He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth – THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME.”

Don’t confuse the knowing of God’s thoughts with freedom to forget them.

I’ve seen arrogance as a play and a ploy, but it IS being in God’s service I will enjoy.

Amen, and thank You Lord for forgiveness in Jesus. Thank You Lord for showing us the Way.
Love over listlessness.
Shepherding over sleep-walking.
Home over hassle or hustle.
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Waking us for Walking.
Forgiveness For Forevermore.
Again and Amen


Amos 4
Israel Has Not Returned to God
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!” The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness: “The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks. You will each go straight out through breaches in the wall, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the Lord. “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brag about your freewill offerings – boast about them, you Israelites, for this is what you love to do,” declares the Sovereign Lord.

“I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

“I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up. People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

“I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

“I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the Lord.

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”

He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind, and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth – THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME.