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All and Only
The First Word... and the Last
Nothing unsaid...God had said it all. I AM
Brief Description
"Where is God in our common troubles?"
"What is He doing in the chaotic Now?"
"Who is God in His nature? In His being?"
God is so magnificently God
that His vast imperial reign is powerful enough to fix any human dilemma,
swallow all pain and answer every quandary....He is God.
In these pages are piercing insights
into the very flavor of God
amidst the struggles of humanity
as told through the lives of
Abraham, David, Esther, Joseph and others.Martha Kilpatrick writes in a unique poetic style. Her book sends a fresh plumbline into the depths of Old Testament characters as they struggle to find God's mysterious purpose in their very human passage. Their stories, made living and relevant, become as current as the times of your own life.
Topics
Sovereignty Judgment Faith Death to Self Worship Repentance Names of God Fear Knowledge Surrender/ Relinquishment
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JOSEPH
There aren't many Josephs.
We would rather pet our
bitterness than wear a crown.And that is precisly the choice. . .
It's funny: the one man who seeks no "whys"
knows....eventually...the answer to the
questions he needed not to ask.
And only that kind of man ever finds out.
Joseph, that magnificent hero, became such
because he pushed past
the obsession with 'why' and dealt instead with 'how'.
How can I please God?
How can I serve God?
If ever a man had the hostile right to ask 'why'
wouldn't it have been Joseph?
A favored son.
A faithful son.
Clean. . .
malleable yet strong
enough to report the wrongs
of his brothers . . . when asked to.
Cruelly rejected
for his God-originated dream
and for his sterling character.
We hear no railing screech of "Why, God?"
A simple setting to the task at hand.
The question of Joseph: "What is your will here?"
The human question is "why?'
"Give me all Your reasons and then, maybe then I will
follow You."
The legitimate question,
the one that can be known is "what?"
God's "what" is "Do the task at hand. Live the life you find."
And Joseph did it.
Only to suffer again, not from sin but
because he wouldn't sin!
We would have screeched, "What good is it?
God is not fair and there is no justice!"
Oh, but . . . I AM.
In the hell-hole where any reasonable man gives up
because
his 'why' saps all his innards,
the caged Joseph asked again. . . "what?'
"What is Your will?
What is my task?"
"Do the task at hand. Live the life in which you are trapped.
Do it well in the faith that I have a Divine Aim."
And Joseph did.
Even there.
The question is not "why" but "what" and
through the devoted acceptance of what God wants,
the "why" of His purpose emerges.
In some off-the-record unveiling to his heart, Joseph came
to see
God's unimaginable but brilliant purpose.
We know the end of the story. Joseph didn't.
For him it had been a blank mystery,
a puzzle he couldn't have solved.
It was God's secret. Only He could reveal it.
And He did.
"God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant
on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance."
Genesis 45:7
He knew. Joseph knew why.
It was a purpose so great, so heroic,
he was willing to have suffered for its fulfillment.
Trauma creates a dilemma with God, not only with life.
It throws His character into dispute,
His power into doubt, His love into question.
Suffering twists our view of God so He seems
both small and inept.
Suffering doesn't need explanation.
The experience of it calls for healing not reason because
suffering splits you in two,
creates a breach between you and
your own existence.
The rigid stance you take against your personal pain
straining to erase your event,
and not to include it in your present,
makes you your own murderer.
For your suffering has a life of its own, full of unborn ideas,
pulsing with mystery,
rich with potential to solve your future suffering,
and - most amazing - your past as well.
Your suffering holds the secrets to your appointed lot and is
therefore the hiding place of your power.
You must value your suffering enough to
coax its treasure into your using.
In the end
Joseph found out why.
He'd been in school, the making of a ruler, whose
power saved many lives.
The 'why' unmasks itself only to the faithful.
For Joseph, I AM had been enough.
God could have. God didn't.
So God had good reason.
Most men never make it to the end. . . to see.
Their furious 'whys' have gnawed their mammoth potential
down to a tiny bitter nub of ineffectiveness . . . .
long before the end.
Copyright © 1998 Martha Blaney Kilpatrick
Excerpts from the book:
abraham
A man must be called.
He doesn't choose his place in God's chronicles
Nor the timing of it.
(Abraham) was elected to a place, a time and a
particular demonstration of God.
And so are you.
joseph
Joseph come to see God's unimaginable but brilliant
purpose. We know the end of the story. Joseph didn't.
For Him it had been a blank mystery,
a puzzle he couldn't have solved.
It was God's secret. Only He could reveal it.
And He did.
esther
History lies not in fists of forceful kings but in
the imploring hands of one who prays.
History belongs to God and He can change its
entire course on the effect of one small life.
david
A man reserves his worship for what possesses
highest supremacy. Nobility doesn't enter into it.
It is raw power that captures us and
makes us subjects.
daniel
Daniel was to be made a servant.
That was God's idea and Daniel got in touch with
it and agreed. By the long tests of serving, he was
groomed to be a ruler with vast power over the
very ones who captured Him.
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Table of Contents
* The Trees
* Abraham
* Jacob
* Joseph
* Balaam
* Saul
* David
* Esther
* Job
* Habakkuk
* Jonah
* Daniel
* Nebuchadnezzar
* Me
* Romans One
* God is Good
* Sovereignty Shared
* Pictures of Jesus
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I have been amazed as the Biblical characters described in this book, have had the secret marrow of their lives broken open for my edification. I have walked with them in a new light. To see them express the same feelings and emotions residing in me, and teach me the pitfalls and rewards. It has caused me to focus on my hidden motives and secret thoughts. This book is fresh. Allowing the distance to be bridged, which is sometimes between a character on the page and my living relevance.
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