I have been listening to and being ministered to by Jesus Culture lately. There is this one song that I love the words… she says to God, “I don’t wanna talk about you, like you are not in the room.” I just love that. Isn’t that the truth? So many times we talk about God and not to God, we sing praise about God, but not to God. Why wouldn’t we tap into His presence? Why wouldn’t we enter into conversation and praise into the greatest Creator ever? Why wouldn’t we run to the One who loves us beyond our understanding, enough that He sacrificed His only Son? Why wouldn’t we spend our days in conversation with Him, asking Him along the way what He wants us to know, do, see, feel? (more)
Isaiah 5:18: What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
These are some things that I have really been working through lately. I know He’s there, but I don’t always live that way. It’s that “orphan spirit” Jody (my MIL) was talking about. It’s that living as though you aren’t a part of His family, with His spirit, without His rescue. It’s not accepting the freedom that He’s freely given. And I don’t want to miss out on it anymore. I don’t want to try so hard at things in my own strength that I burn out. I don’t want to feel empty and alone. I choose to embrace Him, let His freedom pour over me, lift me up and send me dancing!
Romans 4:4-6 (the message) If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift. David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man.
What about you? Is there something that you need to let go of? Are you embracing Jesus as your rescuer and God as your Daddy? Give it a try. Just taste and see just how good God is! And listen well to the love, the freedom, the grace He speaks over you and gives freely, without reservation. It’s there for everyone who will receive! freedom…..
