I am a human that relates to God with the limitations that I posses. I seem to think that God is in time or works in a humanly mindset when He is so much more than that. God is outside of time and gender. God is more than my mind can ever comprehend but even the thought of Him being uncomprehendable boggles me. Reading the Shack I have found that I limit God in so many ways. Not grasping who He is I ignore the fact that He may be voisterous and so full of life! Of course He would be. The Shack mentioned or addressed the fact that Jesus was as a bird with His wings clipped. Jesus was fully God but did not tap into that realm. Jesus was fully human but was able to engulf the relationship, the perfect relationship with God that we were intended to have. Therefore God doing the miracles. We need to embrace who God is.
In this book, God is speaking to a character named Mack. God is teaching Him how Jesus performed so many miracles and this is what the book said. --
"Jesus is the first to do it to the uttermost--the first to absolutely trust my life within Him, the first to believe in my love and my goodness without regard to apperance or consequence."
----So, When he healed the blind?
"He did so as dependent, limited being trusting in my life and power to be at work within him and through Him, Jesus, as a human being, had no power within himself to heal anyone."
"That's how He lives and acts a true human, how every human is designed to live--out of my life" --God
-wow-
These insights are astounding. My life is designed to live out of His life. Soley dependent on Him. God is a being to be discovered and instead of tapping into Him we shut Him out or cut Him off by trapping Him in these stupid boxes.
God is all races, genders personalities and looks. Everything there is...He is. Limit Him to one race personality or gender? MADNESS!
Friday, July 4, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
My first blog!
Well, I have heard of people writing in their own little blog spaces, but i've never actually seen one. Until today..when my good friend Bobby told me he started one and I was interested to see what he had said. They were quite amusing. I have always loved writing... it's soothing knowing that not many people will be reading this unless they are really interested. I always loved writing in the blogs they put on myspace or the little notes on facebook...but never really had a blogspot, until now! But it's funny. I'm going to have another thing to check when I go on the internet. I not only have three forms of communication with people I now have four...I don't know how I feel about this. They are always coming out with new things to try and keep people entertained, and busy. We always gotta have the next best thing. Distractions such as email, myspace and even blogspots have to be another way for the devil to keep us away from the Lord. It makes me sad. Today I fell in love with the Lord again. As i'm with my church family on a beautiful night watching the fireworks I was in awe of His grace and the life that He gave to us all. I am completely in love with Him and I am so thankful that i'm able to be with Him all the time. He's my comforter. One of the men from our church is getting a divorce and it is not his decision. He knows it's wrong and wants to work it out but the wife doesn't want anything to do with him. This breaks my heart. I don't even know what to say to him, how to comfort him. But then in the midst of my heart breaking for him he blurts out with pure confidence "But the Lord is my comforter...He hasn't left me." Through all of the hurt and pain the Lord is our Pillar. As I sit in the midst of a broken world watching glorious fireworks I am amazed at how the Lord has put grace in the midst of our broken lives. I am amazed that the Lord never leaves us and always provides redemption at the end of the day. He is my Pillar. The one that is constant in my life and to so many others in their lives as well. I'm in love.
Well there are my thoughts for one day. My first blog! Hopefully I served it well. :D
Well there are my thoughts for one day. My first blog! Hopefully I served it well. :D
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