I Love the art of God. I capitalize "love" because I really am blown away by the way God orchestrates things into lives of individual people and to all humanity as a whole. Nothing is an accident.. it is all creatively, strategically put together. - accept for this muffin that I am eating right now. The way I thought it would taste is not what I thought. I've been waiting for the fall to come around and actually get cold so that I can eat this Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin. I think my hopes and expectations were up so high that I ruined the ingredients to it's taste. ha! - I can ruin so much!
In my life at the moment is very exciting. Meeting all these new people.. conversing with people that I have once met and now back in my life for very odd and cool reasons. I simply love it! All at the same time I am very aware of the battle that is still at hand. The physical war's in our lives may be coming to an end, but the spiritual battle is at it's high. I was talking with a good friend of mine yesterday evening.. and he blurted out the thought that he had. "Why can't the battle we fight be an epic physical fight!" He expressed his passion and anger to why it's not, and I just loved that our hearts connect in so many ways. But we came down to, is the fact that God didn't create it that way because He knows the battle is only won with Him. No strategy man can make up is good enough, and if it was a battle that we could see with our eyes we would think we understand it all and try to attempt victory on our own. NO! Not going to happen. The battle is between the spiritual realms, not flesh and blood. Then as he was speaking I thought of something God laid on my heart a couple days ago. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind!" I thought that is the perfect strategy! Where man fails to become victorious is when he lives out that scripture backwards. It is not love God with your mind first, it's your heart. Like I said, with God there are no accidents. He is very creative and strategic. Since the battle in not flesh and blood, and the strategy is not some form of flank or over the top explosions on the battle field... the strategy is to ABIDE. Abide in God and He will abide in you. How we do so... "Love the Lord your God will all your 1. heart 2. soul 3. mind.
Love life, but Love God more!
fin.
1 comment:
This really resonates with me right now. My "mind" always wants to be first and in charge. The idea of our spiritual battle being a physical appeals to me so much but that's the problem. My "mind" is always wanting to do things backwards, against the will of God. To abide in the Lord. Such a simple concept, yet so hard to implement. I'll stop babbling on and making incoherent sentences but thanks man, I needed to hear this.
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