SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

WORKS

 

Romans 1:28....And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose

Psalm 19:1....For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

1Peter 1:2.....Who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance

Phillipians 1;6.....Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Collossians 3:23..... Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. 

Genesis 2:15.....The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 

Ephesians 3:20.....Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us

 

 

 

God said:

Let Me just enfold you in My arms. Stay with Me today. Take ten steps with Me today, and then you will take more and more. Keep Me with you today. Think of how happy you make Me. Think of how loved you are, and what you mean to Me. You are an expression of Myself. I am enchanted by you. Think of Me.

I do keep My eye on you, and you are My delight. You always make Me smile. I am either responding to your smile, or I am smiling affectionately at your foolishness. In any case, I exult in you, My happiness.

I am never alone. I always have you in My awareness. I take you everywhere with Me, even though I go nowhere. It seems like we go someplace. It seems like We dance on the top of a mountain or on the top of a pin. It seems like We dive into the Ocean of Love, and yet how do We dive into the Ocean when We have never come out of it? We are square in the middle of the Ocean. We can only dive deep into the depths of Our One Heart, the One Heart that you think is manyfold.

We are singularly One.

Beloveds, you have never been adrift on the surface of the Ocean. Waves come and go, yet you are immovable in the Ocean. The Ocean stirs, and yet the Ocean is still. You ride on the shoulders of the Ocean even as you are at Its depth. You swim, you dive, you cross-crawl without moving away even one inch from My heart. I would not have it any other way. The flow of your swimming or coasting on your back is the flow of My heartbeat.

In a way, you show off for Me. You show Me what you can do. "Watch me," you say. And I, Who hold you in My arms, I answer: "I am watching you. I see you. I see what a good swimmer and diver you are." And, all the while, I hold you fast in My arms. I secure you close to Me. I am indeed your Security, beloveds.

Now, this is not to make you beholden to Me. This is not for you to clutch hold of Me because there is no alternative or because you think you'd better get on the good side of Me. You are already indisputably on My good side. There is nothing for you to gain by being close to Me but your awareness of Our closeness.

What a wonderful thing your awareness is, most especially your awareness of Me. Be aware of Me, as I am aware of you. There is nothing to it. It is perfectly natural. You were born for this, beloveds. You were born in order to find out how intimate We are. You were born in order to find out We are One, and then to exult in this Oneness of Oneness. We were never twain, beloveds. We were always One, and there is nothing else you can be or I can be but Oneness.

We are the Oneness of Love that can only be Itself. Love is all We are and all that We know to do. We can't help it. When love bobbed to the surface of the Ocean, it was still love. Love cannot stop. We have loved forever, and Our love never wears out.

Our love is the adventure of a lifetime, rather, the adventure of Eternity. Here We are, and there is nowhere to go. We are love on love, love layered in Oneness.

We are like cloth that is white on white, and that is the whole cloth, and that is the whole story of Who We are and What We are to each other.

There is no away-ness, beloveds, only Awareness.