Fish on Friday: The Big Compelling of God.

The Big Compelling of God

    Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31

       Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where He reached the climax of His Father`s will. "I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me." That was the one dominating interest all through Our Lord`s life, and the things He met with on the way, joy or sorrow, success or failure, never deterred Him from His purpose. "He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem."

   The great thing to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfill God`s purpose, not our own. Naturally, our ambitions are our own; in the Christian life we have no aim of our own. There is so much to be said to-day about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament it is the aspect of God`s compelling that is brought our. "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you." We are not taken up into conscious agreement with God`s purpose, we are taken up into God`s purpose without any consciousness at all. We have no conception of what God is aiming at, and as we go on it gets more and more vague. God`s aim looks like missing the mark because we are too short-sighted to see what He is aiming at. At the beginning of the Christian life we have our own ideas as to what God`s purpose is-`I am meant to go and do the thing, and still the big compelling of God remains. The work we do is of no account, it is so much scaffolding compared with the big compelling of God. "He took unto Him the twelve," He takes us all the time. There is more than we have got at as yet.

            

                      Here I am  disguised in a hat with fake dreadlocks. What, some of you knew it was

                      really me, the shaven headed artist? For now, I shall continue shaving my head and

                      concentrating on God, family and art. That just about encompasses the whole world.

                      Yes it includes you! Blessings peace and love be with you now and always.

                This bottom photo is upside down but its too difficult for me to turn around at this moment. I sure need a rest. 

  Above are the three artworks which I painted in the last session at Kates. (My forensic art therapist.)
   1) Painting on paper.
   2) Painting on canvas.
   3) Painting on canvas and paper.
                                     
                                                           A Tale from the TAO




On Eating
 A teacher was traveling with some of her students. At one
  of their stops they were served the meat of a pig. The
  students were horrified to see the teacher calmly eating
  this forbidden food. "Teacher," they cried, "is not the flesh
  of an animal forbidden by our order?"


  The teacher went on chewing slowly, clearly savoring
  the taste of the pig. When she had finished she said, "can
  you not see that it was a great and honored gift from 
  these poor people to be given this delicacy? No doubt it
  was given at great cost to them and with an attitude of 
  humbleness and generosity. Who am I to spurn their gift?"


  "Besides," she said, taking another bite, "it is not what goes
   into your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out." 

                                       SOLALA TOWLER


The sun is shining and I trust that you will have a good weekend. Try like me, to have good thoughts, good words and good actions. Love to you all. (please pass it on.)
                              Yours, brother Peter G Kimble