Tag: god in a box

Be Love

“Being” Love!

MzLiz

I had the awesome opportunity this week to experience the up close and personal affects of choosing to be love in a personal, daily challenging situation.  As a Christian “lifer” at times it has been my experience to promote encouragement and change within my community.  I love to see how immature Christians develop from the emotional state of salvation to the sober state of relationship by finding God in a personal, intimate way. That has been most fulfilling but in recent years God has broadened my perspective of the journey.  I will always continue to help struggling Christians towards fulfilling the “expected end” God desires for their life but what about those who don’t have a clue.  I am speaking of those who don’t know Jesus is love, the Bible is our life’s manual, who Jeremiah is or what Jerimiah 29:11 even means.  I am looking to touch those lives and simply introduce them to the love of Jesus. So over the last few months God put me to the challenge.

I had the awesome opportunity to minister by actions not by words to a wonderfully challenged coworker.  She has a beautiful spirit but like most of us it comes easier to demonstrate the pain versus the joy of living.  I decided to accept the challenge.  Some days I lost, choosing to react to her pain but in the end we both won when I decided to respond to her pain.  I started praying for her and even fasting so the chains would be broken in me and her.  You see, the sick may not always make it to the hospital but we as spiritual physicians have the awesome ability to effect change wherever we are.  So I made the decision to only respond when Holy Spirit directed me to and not take advantage of my sometimes valid carnal reactions.  I can not tell you how excited I am for this young lady.  To “be” light requires no “deep” interactions.  Jesus walked among the common so much so they had to pay Judas to point him out. Let us strive to be the Jesus by our everyday interactions in love, by love for love.

God change our hears so that we will desire to touch lives that know nothing about your love but will experience your love by our actions at work, the grocery story, the classroom, the courthouse, the mall, etc.  Help us to not only disciple our Christian family members to effect change in our communities but help us a leaders to effect change wherever we are!!

 

Father

God as Father and/or Husband?

MzLiz

Pondering the dynamics of how we as women try to put God in a box in order to fulfill an emotional void in our lives. We understand God to be our Father but I believe, especially for women, we equate that position to that of a natural father. We have needs and wants that we would like to have met by our natural father and we try to put those demands on our heavenly Father. When God does not come through according to our finite minds we have an emotional meltdown and turn our back on God. It is vitally important to understand a few things about God: “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 We must come to God in faith and not in fear. When we are emotional it is often plagued by fear. God responds to faith not fear/emotion. The woman with the issue of blood knew she had to get to Jesus for her healing. Her motivation was faith not emotion. She did not show up amongst the crowd crying and/or having an emotional meltdown concerning her health condition. She stated within her heart great words of faith – “If I could just touch the hem of His garment then I would be made whole” Matthew 9:21. Jesus responded immediately and told her “Thy faith has made the whole” Matthew 9:22 We must submit to the Father by way of the Holy Spirit to be able to come to the Father in faith and not emotionally distraught. God knows only His Word; anything outside of His Word will not get a response. He is not a man with blood running through his veins. He is a spirit and we must approach Him in that manner at all times. He can not be our husband because God can not come down to lay with us. I understand the finite concept that is given to single and/or widow women but we have to be careful to be sure we use the Truth of His Word at all times to encourage one another and not attempt to feed emotions with metaphors. “Father, help us to maintain our faith as we journey through this emotionally charged life. We can approach you in faith concerning every area of our lives sandwiched with your Word. Your Word annihilates every contrary emotion related to your “expected end” for our lives. Father as we seek you reveal to us your eternal purpose for our lives as we set aside our temporal purpose for our lives!! In Jesus’ Name. Amen”