What are you learning lately? Let me let you in my Heart and Mind a bit.
First off, timing is right when you're not expecting it. Sometimes you meet someone or something happens that takes you by surprise, or gives you a reason to change your plans. I've in fact met many this past couple months that have been like a light in my life, helping me see better how I'm being led and what, specifically, I'm being led by. I have trouble reading into many situations and letting my emotions drive my actions. I'm finding how difficult it can be to be raw and real in a moment and stay guarded, so as not to become susceptible to expectations not being met, or worse, me being a burden to others with my intense feelings. Alongside this, I am learning my Identity in not found in what I do, only, but found in Who I Am, in every given daily situation. This has been a huge help to me. That God, would penetrate me so deeply, to make me aware of myself to myself. It sounds like a no brainer, but I have been so busy trying to be this world's opinion of the best version of me, or much worse, my own opinion of what I felt like the world needed from me. I saw myself as expendable, as a burden because of my emotions and feelings. This could not be further from the Truth. To all my Fellow Feelers, it's beautiful that you're so capable of feeling real and deep emotional responses. It's even more beautiful, when you can use those emotions to express yourself powerfully and that being able to uplift someone else who may feel silent in their own skin. Be free to feel, and allow Jesus to speak to you about how those feelings may best bless you and others around you instead of hinder you and others. Third, I've learned my desires. God saw fit to put certain desires in me, and in time, fulfill them completely. The Joy of the Waiting period isn't in the looking to the future, but in the present moment you're gifted with, and what you choose to do with the time you've been given. Imagine for a moment, you're a child again. Barely 8 years old. Someone pushes you out on the playground. You fall and get hurt. A natural reaction would be to get up and push back. But let's say, instead, you decide to get up and ask the kid who pushed you, why they pushed you, and ask for an apology if none is given. That moment changes alot of things. You may, by virtue of choosing Love in that moment, may experience a spouse dying to soon, or someone stealing something valuable from you. Remembering, perhaps, how you've responded in the past, may help you in these or any difficult situation that requires your patience and humility and at the same time, strength and courage to walk through. Along the same lines of desires, I'm coming to find how powerful our choice to Love is. How purely we can give and receive Love. How substantial and consistent gradual growth in learning to Love well really helps to bring out the best in yourself and in all you encounter. I read a powerful story about a man who bought another man a meal and gave him some money for a bus ticket, after the second man was released from prison and given no way to pick his life up from the ground and become a productive member of society again. When the man who received the meal and money for the bus asked,"how might I repay you?" The first man replied,"there may come a day when you will be given the power of deciding another person's life or death. I ask that you let them live." The man, perplexed, agreed to the request and went on his way. Think of the Love that just got sewn into a life. That it could reach so far as to save a life years down the road. This Love astounds me. This is the reason I'm alive. To see this Love go forth all over the world. To, with my future family, watch as our family, in whatever way, share this Love with the world we live in, and not for our own Glory, but for the Name of Jesus to be praised, save lives from certain death. How many conversations have we had that may have changed lives in the past? More than we may know. And we may never know. I may never know how my life or the way I choose to live affects someone. But what a gift to simply live and Love regardless! I encourage all who read this: never stop loving. And if there are desires in your Heart left currently unfulfilled, seek out God to show you what in you still needs healing and mending to bring about an even greater amount of Love, not just so that you can get your desires met, but so that, in them being met, you can endeavor to Love even better than before. Count it all as a gift and a tool to teach you to Love well. This is the Gospel: that The Glory of God would reach every corner of the earth, in power and Love and that every Heart come to know the Truth that all that they lack can be satisfied to overflowing in the Beautiful Power of Jesus' Love and salvation. And that, as this Truth go forth, all people everywhere may seek to spread this Love and Power like wildfire, restoring a broken world to it's former Glory, like in the days of the Garden of Eden before the Fall. Seek after what alone can satisfy. And once you are satisfied, seek to give that never ending satisfaction out in abundance. Let Love Win.
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