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FMF: Vibe?

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I struggled with this word, ‘vibe’, as it’s not really a word I use. It feels a bit too hip and trendy for my vocabulary and expressions. I also find it goes along with a message of ‘good luck’ or ‘positive thinking’, which is a little at odds with my own sentiments.

That might be just a British thing?

I understand it to mean the feeling or atmosphere in a particular setting – a friendly vibe, or a party vibe, or a feeling/impression one might get from a particular person – an anxious, or suspicious, or enthusiastic vibe, maybe.

Of course I may be using the word completely wrong.

For me in those situations, when I am aware of that sort of feeling or atmosphere, the sense I get is usually more of something that I sense in my spirit.

A sense that gives me peace, or causes me to pray, or warns me to take caution.

Sometimes I discover that I am picking up wrong signals entirely, based on my own weaknesses, lack of love, or fear, and I find myself having to re-appraise often.

Sometimes, however, if I stick around, that sense shifts, or transforms completely.

If my attitude and presence is one of love and grace, the fragrance of Jesus can flow and change the atmosphere in a room or between individuals.

That is truly miraculous!

That’s a Jesus vibe!!

BERJAYA

Most Fridays, I join an online Christian writing community, Five Minute Friday. We are given a one-word prompt and write – unscripted, unedited, pure free-write – for 5 minutes. The prompt this week is VIBE

I do read through my script afterwards to correct obvious mistakes; to check scripture references and to find an appropriate image to illustrate the topic.

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Re Blog

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It’s a funny thing to me, that after I have written something down and published it in a blog – especially in the Five-Minute-Friday blog, as often I have no idea what I shall write, then in five minutes – it is all typed and gone for me and largely forgotten.

Then when I read what others in the FMF community have written, I wonder at how they can all write so eloquently…

So this new wordpress thing, this ‘Blast from the Blog’ an ‘on this day’ idea – I wondered what I could possibly have written for such an intriguing title!

So here it is again. A surprise to me too.

What is under the cover?

Through a dim mirror

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FMF: Part

Now you see only in part, then you shall see fully.

This is what comes to mind in that word today.

BERJAYA
For now we see in a mirror, dimly,

I have an enquiring mind.

I long to know more, see more and understand more.

Meanwhile, with the things of God, I know that I most often see but a vague glimpse of a tiny part of the big picture.

But of course!

The God of the entire creation, of the entire universe – He has eyes to see everything, even little me. But I, though made in His image, see only through His Word and His Spirit in this brief moment of time that is the precious gift of my life.

What I see I see in faith and what I don’t see, I believe in faith. I trust the God of the unseen realities. I trust in His promises and trust in His love.

Hebrews 11:1

Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.

Of course I see only a part.

Of course I understand only a part.

What a privilege it is to be able to see even a part of the divine plan, to be a purposed part of His divine plan and part of His Kingdom.

One day, I shall see heaven and earth all as it truly is.

WOW!

I presume by then that my Spirit will be free enough to receive the revelation and marvel in the glory.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.