Life is out there, waiting to be taken by any brave soul that will capture it. Wanting to be grasped and transformed by the ideas you posess. Have you been told? And if not, why? Or have you, and you just deny it with a false humility that is running ramped through the body of Christ? The false humility that says we are nothing. That's not humility at all. It's acutally denying the greatness of God. We are created in His image. Each of us an expression of His unending character and glory. Each of us to subdue the earth and bring heaven here. His door is always open as He waits in anticipation of us opening ours. We are, whether you believe it or not, great. We are glorious. We are wonderful. And the earth is waiting for us to be revealed. The earth is crying out for us to be who we are. Loving Jesus. Posessing Him in all our our uniqueness and glory.
We each posess a glory. The radiant sons and daughters have a glory that is incomparable to anything in this world and it would be quite foolish to even attempt to do so. Christ in YOU the hope of glory. Christ in each and every one of us created differently expressing God through our own character and attributes. What if that fact alone was so deep in the hearts of the sons and daughters of Eden? How would our outlook on life be? What would we accomplish? If we knew we really couldn't fail, how would this shift our thinking?
But another question rises. How would we give this to others? Instead of displaying signs that fill the hearts of men with pain and even more hurt and rejection through our own religious judgements, what if we displayed the signs that made people wonder? The signs of love that make those who don't know grace or mercy hunger for it. That we, the ones who have received grace and mercy may give it to them. To rejoice with those who rejoice when our own world is crumbling around us. To mourn with those who mourn when our own world is filled with joy and prosperity. To be in and carry the presence of the Lord through worship so heavily that all we have to do is say to the lame man, "get up and walk. you are healed." To take time out of our own busy schedule and adgenda for "our ministry" and "our calling" to pour into those who are wondering in bewilderment needing someone to tell them they have been found and to run after what is in their heart because God put it there.
What would happen if we decided it in our very own hearts to invest in others. To invest our own hearts and selves into those, with the hope that they will do greater things than we have because we have added our own lives to theirs. Our celining is their floor. They begin where we left off. They won't have to start from scratch because they freely got what we had as an inheritance to them.
What would this do to our land? How much healing, restoration, and redemption would take place among a people like this? Those who understand that life is for those who will grasp and take hold of it, who unashamedably know who they are, and who give it away like a billionare could pass out $1 bills.
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." I'm bringing this into present day. I think as we know the glory we have as well as the glory of the Lord the earth will be filled with this knowledge as well. We are carriers of the Spirit of the God of the universe. Life is waiting for us to take hold of it as we realize we carry a glory that transforms those and situations around us. How will we walk?
Just some of my thoughts on life, glory, and giving it away.
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