PICKING UP THE PIECES
Greetings in Jesus:
No matter how many times we say it the truth still is that we must prove to ourselves that God is real and who He says He is to our lives. It does not matter how many times we may say "I LOVE YOU LORD" there is still an element of distrust there between an unseen and all powerful God and any man or woman. It is for that reason that it is useless for us to try to give our lives to God in one fell swoop. That is actually why God tells us to test His word to us so that we might have to doubt His word to us. This is a process where by we give away pieces of who we are to God to change and then put back into our lives after it has been changed and renewed. From the very start of our relationship with God He knows that we are likely to think we can change everything all at the same time. We may want this trust issue done and over with all at the same time, but it does not stand up to reason that we would ever be able to truthfully do that.
At first we may be able to give the little things to God. Those may be the irritations and little worries of life, but as life gets more involved with God it becomes harder to do, and there is a good reason for it. Each step we take in the realization that God is truthful and can be trusted the more we are drawn into the next step which gets just a little deeper into our trust relationship; and that means we have to go farther than we ever have, and dig more deeply that we ever have had to dig to find what God is asking for. You see God is willing to take what we are willing to give to Him one small piece at a time, and as He does He will always give that piece back to us , but it will be changed within us, and many times it will feel like it no longer fits in our life. What has happened is that we are beginning to feel the results of a transformed life. The problem is that the more we give to God the more difficult it becomes to reconcile that new piece to an old life. This in part is what Paul talked about when he said " the things I would do are the things I don't do and the things I would not do are the very things I tend to do". There becomes a constant battle within us to dig deeper and to trust God even more than we did yesterday. The problem is that as we dig into the dirt of our lives to find things to give to God there will be a time sooner or later when we come up against that part of us that.we feel we cannot survive without. It is at this time no matter who we are we find we are in a fight or flight mode with God. It is like the third challenge in the last Indiana Jones movie where he is required to take a step out into the complete unknown. It will be a time when we cannot rely upon our own senses to see a solution. We will very likely either rebel at this point or give our complete lives over to God; and it may even be a combination of both in some strange way.. My point is that from this time forward you will never be the same because you will either have passed that threshold of becoming transformed so much that you can no longer claim citizenship in this world, or you will be miserable because you know what it is that you need to do to be a part of His Kingdom but you don't want to give up the part of you that keeps you separated from Him.
It becomes this piece by piece battle that rages within us sometimes for most of our lives that continues to create that wall that we feel between what we know that God wants from us and what we are willing to give. The answer to it is no less difficult than the position that being where we are puts us in having a complete relationship with the Father. It is what has prevented us from being one with the Father as Christ is one with us through the power of His Spirit. It is at this point that I am reminded of the words "If thy hand offend you cut it off it is better that you enter into Heaven with one hand and be whole in Hell, and if your eye offends you then pluck it out! it is better that you enter Heaven with one eye than to go to Hell with your sight intact"! It is at times like this that we are faced with the awful truth about what God sees in the intent of our hearts.
Once again it is a time of decision on our part; are we going to rebel and fail when we don't get things our way, or will we submit to God? We may want to hide deep and far from the truth at this stage, but we need to remember that the race is not to the fastest, but to he who endures to the end. When we are faced with this life or death decision there becomes two ways to really fail and the enemy knows what buttons to push for most of us to be in absolute misery over it. We will pick up on this in the next blog, and I will share some of the hardest truth I have ever had to face. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
No matter how many times we say it the truth still is that we must prove to ourselves that God is real and who He says He is to our lives. It does not matter how many times we may say "I LOVE YOU LORD" there is still an element of distrust there between an unseen and all powerful God and any man or woman. It is for that reason that it is useless for us to try to give our lives to God in one fell swoop. That is actually why God tells us to test His word to us so that we might have to doubt His word to us. This is a process where by we give away pieces of who we are to God to change and then put back into our lives after it has been changed and renewed. From the very start of our relationship with God He knows that we are likely to think we can change everything all at the same time. We may want this trust issue done and over with all at the same time, but it does not stand up to reason that we would ever be able to truthfully do that.
At first we may be able to give the little things to God. Those may be the irritations and little worries of life, but as life gets more involved with God it becomes harder to do, and there is a good reason for it. Each step we take in the realization that God is truthful and can be trusted the more we are drawn into the next step which gets just a little deeper into our trust relationship; and that means we have to go farther than we ever have, and dig more deeply that we ever have had to dig to find what God is asking for. You see God is willing to take what we are willing to give to Him one small piece at a time, and as He does He will always give that piece back to us , but it will be changed within us, and many times it will feel like it no longer fits in our life. What has happened is that we are beginning to feel the results of a transformed life. The problem is that the more we give to God the more difficult it becomes to reconcile that new piece to an old life. This in part is what Paul talked about when he said " the things I would do are the things I don't do and the things I would not do are the very things I tend to do". There becomes a constant battle within us to dig deeper and to trust God even more than we did yesterday. The problem is that as we dig into the dirt of our lives to find things to give to God there will be a time sooner or later when we come up against that part of us that.we feel we cannot survive without. It is at this time no matter who we are we find we are in a fight or flight mode with God. It is like the third challenge in the last Indiana Jones movie where he is required to take a step out into the complete unknown. It will be a time when we cannot rely upon our own senses to see a solution. We will very likely either rebel at this point or give our complete lives over to God; and it may even be a combination of both in some strange way.. My point is that from this time forward you will never be the same because you will either have passed that threshold of becoming transformed so much that you can no longer claim citizenship in this world, or you will be miserable because you know what it is that you need to do to be a part of His Kingdom but you don't want to give up the part of you that keeps you separated from Him.
It becomes this piece by piece battle that rages within us sometimes for most of our lives that continues to create that wall that we feel between what we know that God wants from us and what we are willing to give. The answer to it is no less difficult than the position that being where we are puts us in having a complete relationship with the Father. It is what has prevented us from being one with the Father as Christ is one with us through the power of His Spirit. It is at this point that I am reminded of the words "If thy hand offend you cut it off it is better that you enter into Heaven with one hand and be whole in Hell, and if your eye offends you then pluck it out! it is better that you enter Heaven with one eye than to go to Hell with your sight intact"! It is at times like this that we are faced with the awful truth about what God sees in the intent of our hearts.Once again it is a time of decision on our part; are we going to rebel and fail when we don't get things our way, or will we submit to God? We may want to hide deep and far from the truth at this stage, but we need to remember that the race is not to the fastest, but to he who endures to the end. When we are faced with this life or death decision there becomes two ways to really fail and the enemy knows what buttons to push for most of us to be in absolute misery over it. We will pick up on this in the next blog, and I will share some of the hardest truth I have ever had to face. May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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