tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35640373.post5789145878797887956..comments2023-09-24T17:39:04.893+05:00Comments on Tales from Middle Earth: A Long Walk in Mordor and the Way of the CrossStriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07347436154893544535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35640373.post-90391842099038833572010-01-21T11:54:35.307+05:002010-01-21T11:54:35.307+05:00Thanks Guy, I guess since I reposted this from SBC...Thanks Guy, I guess since I reposted this from SBCImpact it is only right that you repost your comment from there! But I really like your phrase “The event is not the event”. I think that is so true and explains well why we misjudge so much of what God is doing around us.Striderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07347436154893544535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35640373.post-69372944285933451622010-01-20T18:25:39.887+05:002010-01-20T18:25:39.887+05:00What a powerful story and so dead on in illustrati...What a powerful story and so dead on in illustrating the Kingdom principle of “not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit…” We think things are about the external, what is seen, what can be counted, what gets the attention. But God’s ways and thoughts are different from our own ways and thoughts (Is.55) In our own context where we serve, I often use the expression “The event is not the event”. What this means is what often really counts in regards to the Kingdom, is not all our events, activities, etc. but what God does around the edges and in the background. All the attention is given to the “event” but events come and go in a day. What God does and what His purposes are for all the expended effort, energy, money, and time are often a very different agenda.<br /><br />Thanks again for this encouraging reminder of God’s ways are not our ways.J. Guy Musehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17751691713410311094noreply@blogger.com