We all know a lot of truth, but do we really know "The truth".
Do we choose to live in the truth or do we prefer to talk about the truth?
I feel like I have been talking about the truth and trying to live it out but somehow not
really knowing how. I have some serious control and pride issues. God has been teaching me
so many things.....Surrender----everything! I think of that 80's song "Never surrender" That may be why
this culture can not find the truth that sets them free and gives them the PEACE and JOY that we were created to have as our inheritance as a child of the King!!!
God is teaching me to surrender and rejoice that I have nothing--that I am nothing--that I can do nothing.
To give Jesus a big smile each time my nothingness frightens me. To just keep the joy of Jesus as my strength--
To be happy and at peace, and to accept whatever he takes with a big smile. -- Mother Teresa
"I am the vine; you are the branches.
If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit;
apart from me you can do nothing.
"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. "
John 15:5 and 15:11-12
Seems like simple truth that we have all heard before.......
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
"Always Surrender"----it is a lot easier but much harder and it is the only way to live out the truth!
1 comment:
I used to hold fast to the idea of being nothing in the past, both as a reminder to remain humble but also sometimes as a cross I felt I needed to bear---because I deserved it and wasn't worth anything. But one needless side effect of considering ourselves nothing is the severe belittlement of what God has created in us, whether or not we are in Christ or not. We are his creation, a cherished work of art if you will. And pardon my bad grammar, but that is not nothing.
The side effect of considering myself nothing, which I did religiously for years upon years, was that it left me feeling worthless and always striving to feel valuable at all...in God's eyes or not. It's one thing to consider yourself lesser than God, and in that context being very little by contrast. But it's a whole different ball of wax if that nothingness turns to a state of lacking love for yourself. For Jesus did command us to love our neighbor, as (or in the same way) we love ourselves. There's a relationship there between those two loves, love for self and love for others; and that requires seeing the value and worth of self and of others.
So in effect, we are not nothing, but rather we are something because we have all been fearfully and wonderfully made---regardless if we're in Christ or not.
Just a cautionary response to your posting. I hope you might be able to see where I'm coming from.
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