Stand alone ∙

Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine that he drank. – Daniel 1:8

Genesis 39:6-9

 6 Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man,

 7 and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.

 8 But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.”

 9 “No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”

Standalone or Stand Alone – What’s the Difference?

The term standalone is an adjective. It is a synonym for independent, freestanding autonomous, isolated, separate, or self-standing. It is correctly spelled as standalone or stand-alone. It typically modifies a noun. We speak of a standalone freezer, a standalone product, or a standalone software license. It refers to something that is independent of other resources.

Stand alone is a verb phrase that means to be apart from others, either literally or figuratively. Such a person often takes a unique stand. They do not conform for conformity’s sake. They are in a league of their own.

There are many examples in the Scriptures of men and women who stood alone. To name a few, Esther, Daniel, Rahab, Ruth, Paul, and Joseph.

REFLECT & PRAY

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it” (Saint Augustine).

Father there are no shadows of gray with You. You have told us what is right and what is not right. Encourage me to walk righteously and make the best possible choices.

INSIGHT

“How can God’s people resist the pressures that can ‘squeeze’ them into conformity with the world? According to Romans 12:1-2, ‘conformers’ are people whose lives are controlled by pressure from without, but ‘transformers’ are people whose lives are controlled by power from within.”

“Daniel and his three friends were transformers: instead of being changed, they did the changing! God used them to transform the minds of powerful rulers and to bring great glory to His name in a pagan land” (Wiersbe).

Each child of the King has the right and ability to choose to stand alone.

“The first step in solving their problem and being transformers was giving themselves wholly to the Lord. Daniel’s heart – the totality of his being – belonged to the Lord, as did the hearts of his friends.”

“A heart that loves the Lord, trusts the Lord, and therefore obeys the Lord has no difficulty making the right choices and trusting God to take care of the consequences. It has well been said that faith is not believing in spite of evidence – that’s superstition – but obeying in spite of consequences.” (Wiersbe).

Often it comes down to the conflict between what the Father has asked us to do and what custom, tradition, or law asked us to do. Paul leads the way and provides steps of action.

Philippians 3:7-16

 7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.

 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ

 9 and become one with him.

 10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death.

 12 But I press on.

 13 I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

 16 But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.

“Conformity is doing what everyone else is doing, regardless of what is right.

Morality is doing what is right regardless of what everyone else is doing” (Evette Carter).

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© Dr. H 2023

Spiritual recycling – MRF aka Murph

Listen to me, dear brothers and sisters. Hasn’t God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith? Aren’t they the ones who will inherit the Kingdom he promised to those who love him? – James 2:5

1 Corinthians 1:25-28

 25 This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

 26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.

 27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful.

 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important.

A Materials Recycling Facility or MRF (pronounced like ‘Murph’) is a solid-waste management plant that processes recyclable materials to sell to manufacturers as raw materials for new products.

Once the materials have been sorted, they are melted, shredded, or pulped to prepare for recycling. Glass is often pulverized and melted into new glass objects. Shredding is used to prepare plastic, metal, and paper for processing, and pulping converts paper products into slurry that can be made again into paper. Processed materials are then shipped to facilities that use recycled goods for manufacturing.

Recycling began in the 1800s in America. But it is actually nothing new. Believe it or not, the Father has been in the recycling business for thousands of years. He reclaims and repurposes worn, sullied, debauched, and unwanted humanity.

He takes the used and abused, rejected and cast off, things the world considers foolish and powerless, the despised and those counted as nothing, and recycles them. They become children of the King! In fact, the kingdom of God belongs exclusively to them.

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

The Greek word translated as poor is ptochos. It comes from the Greek verb ptosso  – to crouch, cower like a beggar. It refers to those who are poor and helpless, in abject poverty, utter helplessness, or complete destitution (Zodhiates).

The poor in spirit, are those who recognize their utter spiritual destitution and need for God. Theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. It belongs to those who confess their spiritual bankruptcy (ESV Notes).

Although there may be anguish, sorrow, rejection, mistreatment, weeping, and far more dire conditions in this present world, the children of the King will ultimately be blessed forever because the Father’s kingdom belongs to them. The somewhat distressing conditions are not “good” in and of themselves.  However, they make the children of the King aware of their need for the Father. Within each human being, there is a vacuum that the Father alone can fill. The poverty spoken of is the poverty of the spirit.

Those who are poor in spirit are humbled before the Father, knowing their utter impoverishment.

Luke 6:20 Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

Being blessed is more than a temporary or circumstantial feeling of happiness. Rather it is a state of well-being that is derived from a personal relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. The poor in spirit, are those who recognize their utter spiritual destitution and need for God. Theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. It belongs to those who confess their spiritual bankruptcy (ESV Notes).

The Greek word translated as blessed is makarios which is his. Makarios has the sense of being favored or privileged. When the Father favors us and adopts us as His dear children, we are truly privileged and blessed.

Some modern translations use the term “happy.” But happiness tends to be associated more with feelings. Being blessed is not the feelings of the children of the King but their status and position. Perhaps “favored” is a better thought-for-thought translation. The poor of this beatitude possess the blessedness of being the object of God’s favor (Stein).

REFLECT & PRAY

Children of the King have been given the privilege of having a whole new attitude toward themselves. They were poor and destitute. But now they are rich in faith. They possess wealth more incredible than they could ever imagine.

Father thank You that from eternity past, You had a plan to recycle me for eternity future. Encourage me to yield and recognize that You are the Potter, and I am but the clay.

INSIGHT

At the moment we become children of the King, we become heirs of the Kingdom of God. It is our certain hope and expectation for eternity.

Romans 8:17 Since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God’s glory.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Because of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done, we have been made right with God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person [creation]. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

The Greek term translated as person or creation is ktisis. Ktisis means creation or creature. It refers to God’s creative action forming a person into a “new being” (UBS). The focus is on the Father’s creative power of recycling what we were before Christ to what we are now “in Christ.” The focus is on the remarkable, unimaginable transformation the living God brings. We are forever altered, recycled, and regenerated.

Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth (regeneration) and new life through the Holy Spirit.

The Greek word translated as new birth or regeneration is paliggenesia. Paliggenesia comes is derived from palin – again + genesia – birth. Paliggenesia literally means rebirth, renewal, or being born again. Regeneration takes what already exists and starts over. It is the ultimate act of becoming recycled! The old self has been replaced by the new.

The Father recycles all the children of the King. Yet each child of the King is responsible for actualizing this new reality and growing into their new identity day by day.

Ephesians 4:22-24

 22 Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.

 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God – truly righteous and holy.

We begin by recognizing that the Father has recycled each of us. He has repurposed us according to His eternal plan and blueprint.

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© Dr. H 2022

What is darkness? ∙

What is darkness? ∙

[The Lord Jesus Christ] alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light. – 1 Timothy 6:16

1 John 1:5-10

 5 This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.

 6 So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.

 7 But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

 8 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.

 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

A story has been told regarding a conversation between a professor and a student. It is most likely an urban legend in that there is no factual evidence to confirm that this exchange ever took place. But the story illustrates a very important point.

A university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, “Yes, he did!”

“God created everything?” The professor asked.

“Yes sir,” the student replied.

The professor answered, “If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.”

The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question professor?”

“Of course,” replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, “Professor, does cold exist?”

“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?” The students snickered at the young man’s question.

The young man replied, “In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is, in reality the absence of heat. Every object or body is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.”

The student continued, “Professor, does darkness exist?”

The professor responded, “Of course it does.”

The student replied, “Once again, you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is, in reality, the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.”

Finally, the young man asked the professor, “Sir, does evil exist?”

Now uncertain, the professor responded, “Of course, as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.”

To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man created to describe God’s absence. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith or love that exist, just as does light and heat. Evil results from what happens when a man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”

The professor sat down.

The young man’s name is Albert Einstein (Google it).

Absolute light exists. The Father is absolute, perfect light. Children of the King can walk in the light and are the light of the world. However, they are tainted by darkness and will never be absolute and perfect light. This is obvious, yet confusing.

This may clarify. Some of the Father’s attributes are incommunicable such as omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, and infinity. These He cannot share with His children. But other of His attributes are communicable such as spirituality, knowledge, wisdom, goodness, love, mercy, peace, righteousness, beauty, and light.

No child of the King is perfect in their spirituality, goodness, mercy, or light. These qualities wax and wane among us. Sadly, we are essentially inconsistent and often self-absorbed. It can be very discouraging to us and those that love us.

REFLECT & PRAY

That God is light speaks of his splendor and glory, purity and holiness. He is self-revealing and ready to shine a light on our path (Barclay).

Father thank You that You are light and brought light into my life when I met the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior. Encourage me to walk in the light as You are in the light and enjoy the sweet fellowship of knowing You.

INSIGHT

The apostle John had spent 3 1/2 years close to the Lord Jesus Christ. John was closer to Him than anyone else among the twelve apostles. He was the disciple whom Jesus loved (John 13:23). On the night of the last supper, John snuggled up close to Jesus; the Greek could well be translated as “was reclining on Jesus’ bosom.” Imagine a young child nuzzling up as close as possible and lying by the side of one of its parents to enjoy the warmth, proximity, and safety. The King James translation catches the word picture.

John 13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

John was totally awestruck by the Lord Jesus Christ and declared, “God is light; in Him, there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). The Lord Jesus Christ unequivocally stated, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).

Light is simply light. When light is absent, the result is what we have come to call darkness. Living and walking in darkness is totally incompatible with having fellowship with the Father. All children of the King were once children of darkness. But now we are children of light. The Father wants us to act like it (1 Thessalonians 5:5).

Ephesians 5:8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

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© Dr. H 2022

Introspection – discovering our inner pain

Introspection – discovering our inner pain

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. – Psalms 139:23-24

Psalms 139:1-12

 1 O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

 2 You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

 3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.

 4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.

 5 You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.

 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

 7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.

 9 If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

 10 even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

 11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night–

 12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

What is introspection? Introspection is a psychological process that involves looking inward to examine one’s own thoughts, emotions, judgments, and perceptions. In everyday use, introspection is a way of looking inward and exploring one’s internal thoughts and feelings (Kendra Cherry).

The term introspection, also referred to as experimental self-observation, describes a research technique that psychologist Wilhelm Wundt first developed. Wundt’s technique involved training people to analyze the content of their own thoughts, feelings, and motives (Kendra Cherry) carefully and objectively. The goal is to lead to increased self-awareness.

The inherent dilemma is that personal introspection is not objective. It is subjective.

Hidden trauma, abuse, learned responses, and even unknown agendas lurk beneath the surface of each individual. These hidden soul-suckers are deceptive, and we are often unaware of them. They create a natural barrier or limitation to genuinely understanding ourselves. Consequently, our efforts and results are often inherently skewed.

Further, the human heart is untrustworthy. It is deceitful and evasive. It is essentially unknowable.

Jeremiah 17:9 The human heart is the most deceitful of all things and desperately wicked. Who can understand it?

Is there an objective way to discover who we really are? David shows us the way!

David wants to know if there’s anything in him which causes pain for himself, others, or the Father.

REFLECT & PRAY

“If we cannot deceive God, escape God, or ignore God, is it not sensible to obey God? Yes, it is reasonable, but there are those who prefer to oppose God and dispute what He says . . . in His Word” (Wiersbe).

Father please search my heart. Reveal what is inside of me which is offensive to You and hurtful to myself and others. Remove the dark spots that remain on my heart.

INSIGHT

The Father God is all-knowing. He knows everything all the time. His evaluations are not only objective, but they are also totally accurate. He knows everything about us and always has. Nothing is hidden from Him. If we had a medical condition, would we not seek a medical professional for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment? When we have harmful internal spiritual conditions, who better to seek help from than the all-wise, all-knowing living God? Every child of the King can seek counsel from their Father.

David is well aware of the Father’s personality and essence. In his prayer to Him, he acknowledges his all-knowing wisdom and understanding.

Psalms 139:1-7

 1 O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

 2 You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

 3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.

 4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.

 7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

Therefore David asks the Father for an evaluation. He requested the Father to examine him and accurately determine what was lurking within.

The context of David’s request is revealing. David had just criticized and prayed for the destruction of his enemies. It is almost as though David wonders if he is justified. David is sagacious and had hidden God’s Word in his heart. He seems virtually prescient of biblical principles that the Lord Jesus Christ would teach a millennium later.

Was it wrong of David to cast the first stone (John 8:7)? Did his own agenda and sin cloud his conclusions? How often do we do the same thing but never consider the potentially faulty objectivity and accuracy in our negative criticism of others?

Luke 6:41-42

 41 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?

 42 How can you think of saying, ‘Friend, let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.

He wants to make sure there is no log stuck in his eye.

Psalms 139:23-24

 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

 24 Point out anything in me that offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

The two phrases in Psalm 139:23 are synonymous Hebrew poetry and rhyme in thought. They say the same thing as each other. They reiterate the perspective at the beginning of Psalms 139. The Father has searched him and known him. He asked the Father to do it again. David recognizes his emotional state and anxious thoughts. He does not want his judgment to be biased or prejudiced. He wants any grievous way to be exposed.

He wants to know if there’s any way of pain within his heart that has skewed his assessment.  

The Hebrew word translated as wicked (KJV), grievous (ESV), hurtful (NAS), offensive (NLT, NIV), or painful is otseb. Otseb refers to an act that offends another. Otseb comes from the Hebrew verb asab. The verb asab encompasses both physical and emotional pain or discomfort. It can be literally translated as a way of pain. Such internal pain or offense can prejudice any of us. It can also be felt by those they come into contact with. Worse still, our pain becomes the Father’s pain. It can be a source of grief or sorrow for God (Ephesians 4:30).

“When we cannot understand ourselves or comprehend our feelings, God invites us to take our internal struggles to Him and ask Him for insight. He understands what we do not, and knows what to do when we don’t” (Stanley).

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© Dr. H 2022

Sweet Hour of Prayer ∙

Sweet Hour of Prayer ∙

They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb. – Psalms 19:10

Psalms 141:2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

Revelation 5:8 Golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints

Revelation 8:3-4

 3 Then another angel with a gold incense burner came and stood at the altar. And a great amount of incense was given to him to mix with the prayers of God’s people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne.

 4 The smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers of God’s holy people, ascended up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out.

How many things in our lives are genuinely satisfying and delightful?

William Walford was blind. Called on to preach from time to time in a rural English church, he composed sermons in his head to deliver on Sundays. He memorized a considerable amount of the Bible, which he quoted verbatim in his sermons, and he prayed.

William Walford grasped something that few of us comprehend. He experienced something that few of us ever do. When we enter into the Father’s throne room, something incredible can happen and certainly did for William. As he practiced talking to the Father in prayer and spent time with Him, he experienced a gentle sweetness and contentment. Prayer itself became sweet. It had a delightful fragrance of the Father’s presence.

William Walford wrote of this experience in his hymn written in 1845, “Sweet Hour of Prayer.”

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! That calls me from a world of care,

And bids me at my Father’s throne, make all my wants and wishes known.

In seasons of distress and grief, my soul has often found relief

And oft escaped the tempter’s snare, by thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! The joys I feel, the bliss I share,

Of those whose anxious spirits burn with strong desires for thy return!

With such, I hasten to the place where God my Savior, shows His face,

And gladly take my station there, and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer! Thy wings shall my petition bear.

To Him whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless.

And since He bids me seek His face, believe His Word and trust His grace,

I’ll cast on Him my every care and wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!

Rather than having the vague hope of finding time to pray in our busy lives, we make a personal choice to set aside time to pray (Charles Stanley).

REFLECT & PRAY

The challenge for each of us is to spend quality time talking to the Father and experience the delightful sweetness and fragrance of His presence.

Father allow me to start slowly and then increase the quality time I spend with You in prayer. Now I know just minutes, but perhaps one day – hours.

INSIGHT

Psalms 19:10 They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

Psalms 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

The Psalms highlight the great value of the Word of God. The Psalms speak of the unspeakable joy and delight of those who love the Father’s Word and take comfort and find nourishment from it.

Sweet prayer is of similar value and delight to those who enjoy and practice it. Sweet prayer can be compared to the worth of gold and the pleasure of honey.  Gold was the most precious material possession in the Ancient Near East. Sweet prayer is more valuable than gold. Honey was the sweetest substance known in the Ancient Near East. Sweet prayer is more delightful than honey.

Sweet prayer is more to be desired than gold, even fine gold, great wealth, and large quantities of material riches.

In the same way that David loved and delighted in the Word of God, William Walford delighted in sweet prayer. Why is this so? Because both bring us into a closer, more intimate relationship with our Father in heaven. What can be sweeter than sweet, loving proximity with the Father? He holds our hearts close to His. He desires that we draw near to Him.

1 Peter 1:8 You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

We do not see the Father or Lord Jesus Christ with our physical eyes. But we see them both with the eyes of our hearts. By faith, we see Them. In prayer, sweet prayer, we see Them and experience a glorious, inexpressible joy.

There are no words to describe inexpressible joy adequately. But when you’ve experienced it, you know exactly what it is. Sweet prayer is a conduit that leads the way to inexpressible joy.

But there’s more! Our Father in heaven is perfect in all regards. He lacks nothing. He is eternal, self-sufficient, unchanging, and infinite. However, as a person, the Father also has emotions and expresses them freely. He has chosen to be actively involved with His children and interact with them. He is well aware of what we do. The Father can be pleased or grieved by what His children do.

Psalms 141:2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

Revelation 5:8 Golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Our prayers are like incense, a sweet aroma offered to and received by the Father. Could it be that our prayers are pleasant to the Father? When we enter into sweet prayer with Him, do we bring Him pleasure, joy, and satisfaction? 

The Father wants us to pray. The enemy does not want us to pray. He does all he can to hinder us. The enemy knows that we can accomplish more through our prayers than through our work. He would rather have us do anything else than pray (anonymous).

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© Dr. H 2022