Mar. 25, 2009 - ~Week of the Zucchini - continued
Last night was day two of Week of the Zucchini and I have to say it was a BIG hit! The recipes we used for dinner were a yummy zucchini soup that my daughter made - absolutely delicious - and I prepared the Zucchini bread which was even better than the Zucchini muffins. Two loaves along with the soup and we were all-full-up 
Now as for the box full of zucchini...... it's still pretty full. We're going to take a break from zucchini tonite and resume with tomorrows dinner. We'll have to research options.... To freeze? Make several loaves of bread and freeze? We're on our way to using all of the yummy zucchini but we still have a long way to go.
And now for today's Oswald. The Lord has really been impressing truths on my heart lately. I've heard louder and more clearer than I have heard in some time. And there's quiet.....quiet within and without as he teaches. I know I'm not the typical quiet type, but the Lord speaks.....
March 25th.
THE MOST DELICATE MISSION ON EARTH
"The friend of the Bridegroom." John 3:29
Goodness and purity ought never to attract attention to themselves, they ought simply to be magnets to draw to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies. A beautiful saint may be a hindrance if he does not present Jesus Christ but only what Christ has done for him. He will leave the impression - "What a fine character that man is!" That is not being a true friend of the Bridegroom; I am increasing all the time, He is not.
In order to maintain this friendship and loyalty to the Bridegroom, we have to be more careful of our moral and vital relationship to Him than of any other thing, even of obedience. Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that. Only occasionally do we have to obey. When a crisis arises we have to find out what God's will is, but the greater part of the life is not conscious obedience but the maintenance of this relationship - the friend of the Bridegroom. Christian work may be a means of evading the soul's concentration on Jesus Christ. Instead of being friends of the Bridegroom, we may become amateur providences, and may work against Him whilst we use His weapons.
~And now for a WONDERFUL video by one of my favorite artists..... "Give Me Jesus" It's all about Jesus.
