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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Who is God? What’s He all about? Why is there always so many questions? I say, There’s just one simple answer to every kind of question, if you ask, He’ll answer~
We have the Bible, how much does that say about God? And how many of us are even reaching for our Bibles? We have our ‘ideas’ about God, but it almost seems like many would rather run and hide behind what is ‘concrete’ about God, as if somehow in fear to believe God any bigger. The Bible shows us first-out a powerful Creator, whom from His love and image he brought forth the Earth. From His mighty hand He lay a blueprint of life and purpose. A beginning, and an end. He saw us before, in the moment of creation when He spent designing each of us, uniquely. When he planned a world of perfection, and an Earth that needn’t be worked by hand. A garden where the lion lay with the lamb. Something crept up from the ground on it’s belly and changed the world for all mankind. How short-lived was perfection? Furthest from our Heavenly Fathers sight, Satan crept in. In our infancy he found us faultless. He bit with a strike to the human mind and we suffer his poison still today.
The Bible:
A book of ‘accounts’, written by those whom had profound and uninterrupted Faith with God. These were people with real lives and families, that had a faith in the Lord that they each had to discover and tenderly care for. They each were once children, and like all of us, were born with purpose and choice. They felt a longing on their spirits to seek a path, less desirable than any others, to contribute their part. Many of the writers of the Bible in whole were killed because of their faith. Have we also found something worth living, suffering and dying for? How tremendous and desirable the example. All these amazing events involving people we could possibly relate to somehow in life and in reality. Only separated by time. We hold so true the words of these men whom spoke of the power of our God over 2,000 years ago, look at our world, His people, our era of understanding. Is the power of God not greater felt now than even then. Yet we turn our eyes from Him, and onto this world, this much uncertain, unreliable system. We live our precious special lives by another man’s standard, a victim to society. Why aren’t we discovering more? Why have we made all worth believing in, appear impossible. Why have we nearly canceled the truth about who we are, out of our lives? By our choices we make our day. The choices decide what ways were aiming in our lives. They also control the parts that, by our lack of choice, we lose every opportunity of.
We needed direction, so God set before us His Word. We are to take the mysteries of the word, and the lives of the men who wrote it, only to turn to our Father for the answers to our questions. We must venture out into faith and never limit ourselves, or our God, to the words spoken as a foundation of what we hold true. We must trust it’s message and all God is speaking to us, through it. We are to find our faith and then set ourselves free in it. It’s an adventure of self-discovery, an individual relationship.
The plan of the Bible was very well thought out by our Maker, it has lasted over 2 thousand years and despite its vast array of interpretations and translations, the message remains inheritably the same. We find that in this day in time, even without ‘Bible knowledge’ one can still tell the story. There is a greater following going on than there has ever been before, but coupled with this is the reality that not all of these God loving individuals are living to the potential their God has put within them. How many of us live Monday thru Saturday for us, and Sunday for God? How many of us love our God but aren’t giving Him full control, trusting in Him for everything? We are too often defeated by our imbalance. The parts of us we struggle with the most, take hold of even the better parts of who we are. It is a battle to live a life without motion. We must accept, if we are going to do this thing for God, God’s going to keep us moving. For some that means getting out and making a difference, for others it means making a difference right at home. Either way we choose, God sees who he built you to be. Are we all living up to our best? How’s your relationship with God?
My grandfather is a great man of faith. He spoke that though he had already read his Bible many times, there was always that sometimes when he’d find something ‘new’. It is a book that is no less than a ‘masterpiece’ of time. Each story in the Bible can, by choice, be picked apart and discouraged out of misunderstanding. But the unique thing about the Bible is that you will find the stories are just the right amount of ‘hard to understand’, because when we are left wondering, we have to seek out the answers ourselves. That is what the word is supposed to do, drive desire within us to better understand. It’s when we ask that He hears.
We’re not going to always be able to remember the books, where they are and where in their pages is said something we would read, hear and always remember. So what keeps us from reaching for the word? And a better question yet would be, what in this world could possibly cause us to doubt?
In life there is more meaning than we are able to understand. For in this world we have found evidence of our being, and tried to unlock the mysteries around us. We deter ourselves from true essence, to waste our time trying to explain what ‘has been’. We are losing out on all the new things there are to discover. When will we realize that a moment that was once here and now gone, no longer exist. It requires no more of our time, or our efforts. For what is gone cannot be changed. Some moments are better left memories, and others, never remembered at all.
We each find ourselves forgetting, as time goes on there becomes a disappearance of even our most precious memories. The details of special moments in time begin to fade. None of us can escape the results of time. Yet, why, within each of us is there that desire to remember forever, and never forget? See, in life we find that with each thing there is that something that separates it from the perfect it was made to be. Everything.
There is and always has been within each of us, a desire to just ‘have more time’. Our moments with one another are limited, and in this, we discover what between us is so very special. At times, when we separate from one another, our hearts and minds feel as though they have never left. We are connected, and we feel ‘inseparable’ from one another and these feelings sway us sweetly into love. The more control another person takes of our minds, the more our relationship is watered and begins to grow into a beautiful flower of love. Between my husband and I is the only account I have to offer, when it comes to the sweet romance of just one man and one woman. It would be best described as a vine, that grows from the powerful roots that sprung at first we met. With attention, and much affection we watered that seed ’sewn’ at “hello”. We burst into life not only in the world but before God, we tied ourselves to each other, our two, became one flesh. We developed love, and even found at many turns things feeling like they could never feel any better, and then tomorrow came. We fell sweetly into rebellious desire. The minutes away from one another we’re the only ones we counted, and time disappeared altogether when were together. We were built for forever, and now, we daily prepare for ‘forever’ together. Our vines are weak and delicate. They have taken twist and turns in time, all around the strong foundations we’ve found and discovered together from which to grow on. Life has sprung us much misfortune, but has also gave us much opportunity and with it hope. There have been moments when growth has slowed, when we felt the weight of the world, and the pressure of others on our lives took first priority. We always seemed to be saving our dearest love for later, when things quieted down. What we begun to realize is that WE started all of this together, we are the reason our lives are as they are, we have duties to one another. The moment home, should be the moment we spend our time most longing for. Time together with the ones we have been gifted is exactly what we needed, with God first and foremost, and trusting our every need be met. This has proved to be a most inexpensive lifestyle, with rewards too numerous to mention, proof that you can slide across the very bottom of the scale they put us all on, and live one very blessed fulfilled life. 10 years of being together, I can’t believe the amount of times we gave up on ourselves and one another. We would slow so much we would almost mutually agree, that there was just nowhere for us to go, no place to see ourselves together, but we found our way by pressing on, believing that what was watering and pruning us all along the way, wouldn’t have planted us in vain. That even when it got dark, the light was just over the horizon. Always waiting to shine on another day. Just like a vine we grab hold of what appears before us, and for many years we didn’t realize we could choose our own direction. All along we were growing side-ways, in the cracks of life and the world, out of the cracks and back upward and then down once again. Finally, alas, I see. We are meant, and meant to go together, on the sunlight and cool water He brings.
I believe He is watching us all like a tapestry before His eyes. He studies and observes our growth, and from it discovers a beautiful pattern of love, woven through and for Him. We are each like a thread. Created with the ability to weave our own special pattern in the world and time. Equipped with our own beauty and purpose, our own special design. Whether we ‘weave’ for Him is up to us.
“We feel the weight of the world we were never meant to bare. Never created to endure. We struggle because God did not create our beings capable of failure, He built us out of perfection, before the world knew evil at all. We may hurt at the hand of the enemy, but we must not forget how powerful we are. When our circumstances Fail, we must fight to prevail. He did not create us in vain.”- Kayla Garrett
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