January 9, 2011
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Safer
We got home from our trip to find that we had puppies under our storage shed. A stray dog had found our backyard her chosen spot for her little family. As we were getting ready for bed tonight Blake said, “Do you realize that we never had any stray animals show up at our house until we started this adoption process? And since then we’ve had two stray dogs come and hang out here….one who even brought her puppies.”
Maybe that is just one more confirmation. That God is making our home a safe place, a haven.
I have such a passion right now to see the church of American (myself included) get crazy for God. To get sick and tired of the American Dream. To dare to have a wild adventure with their Savior. I want us to be each others cheerleaders in this amazing abundant life Jesus Christ paid for with His life. Stop throwing our culture’s selfish excuses and thought processes at your brothers and sisters and even more so – at yourself!
1 Corinthians 2:9
”No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”Do you love Him? Do you? More than anything? Then listen to His voice and wait…wait….wait. And He will speak. And it will be a wild and crazy thing He says to you – NO MIND CAN CONCEIVE IT! Read all of 1 Corinthians 2. Its talking about you! Its talking about hearing the Spirit of God now! Its talking about being taught by the Spirit of God! Its really good stuff. This abundant life thing is incredible.
The enemy threw out a heck of a lie, and we swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. He has told us that surrendering ourselves completely to the plan of God for our lives, is the scary place. Only a few are really brave enough to do it. But God is showing me, sinking His truth into me… renewing my mind with the truth that NOT surrendering completely to God is the scary place The mindset of our culture, the lies of the enemy, the emptiness of the world slowly, slowly creeps in until we are just a shell. Unfulfilled, discontent, narcissistic. How many times have I found myself in that exact place….again? And I can always follow it back to the root of not surrendering. Fear of listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit. Fear of my rights and pleasures taken away by God and replaced with torturous things like self denial, poorness, denim jumpers, no makeup, and possibly being burnt to a stake in the end times.
Yet when I crawl my way back to the throne of God, throw myself at His feet, and cry for Him to speak to me again….I remember
Psalms 18:33
“He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.”
Something about being in His presence rescues your every thought from the grasp of the enemy and you are certain with every fiber of Your being that no one, no one, no one loves you like He does.
And when you are secure in that:
1 John 4:18
”perfect love casts out fear.”Fear falls away and just love and the willingness to surrender remain. Surrender is beautiful and chain-breaking and holy and so much safer than running.
So stop running. Make your way back to His feet and His love. You won’t regret it.
