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A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, A HA: The God Moment That Changes Everything (p. 78). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) I’m not sure if we really want that to be true.   Even in our relationships I’m not sure we want to see the whole truth. Kyle says, “We have a tendency in our relationships— even our closest ones— to speak 95 percent of the truth. We don’t take it the full 100 percent. But that last 5 percent is what really needs to be said. More often than not, the startling realization takes place in the 5 percent of hard truth. All of us need a relationship with someone who has permission to flip the switch we missed.” He then says, “I recently read an article in the Montreal Gazette about a man named Pierre-Paul Thomas. He was born blind and could only imagine the world that was often described to him. For years he walked with a white cane to avoid obstacles in front of him. But at the age

A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, AHA: The God Moment That Changes Everything (p. 41). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Here is the completed thought by Kyle.   He says, “Another alarm for us is sometimes a sampling of future consequences. Sometimes God will give us a taste of the coming consequences of current actions— like a parking-lot fender bender that may save us from a five-car interstate pileup later, or a bounced check that will keep us from uncontrollable debt down the road. God will allow us to experience a sampling of what we can expect if we don’t wake up.” Oh if we would cultivate our relationship with God and we would listen, really listen to the alarms he gives to us to protect us, to wake us up.   If we really understood how much he loves us. Kyle continues, “A lot of us can mistake this alarm as a coincidental inconvenience. If the sampling of consequence isn’t big enough or pa

A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, AHA: The God Moment ThatChanges Everything (p. 34). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Kyle says, “In Scripture there are a number of examples of how God sounds the alarm. Oftentimes the alarm sounds early on to wake us up before things have fallen apart. Sometimes people think they have to hit rock bottom before they come to their senses, but what if God is trying to wake you up right now to save you from heartbreak in the Distant Country later?”   To Kyle the Distant Country is when you are far away from God and you can't hear Him. He goes on, “Second Chronicles 36: 15 speaks of how God sounds the alarm to warn His people: ‘And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them …’ (NKJV). The expression rising up early doesn’t mean God got out of bed early. Rather, it is best understood as ‘taking action early