My Gift is God in you

My Gift is God in you!

I intently desire to know more fully who my God is.

Where shall I find Him?

In you.

But yet not how I believe Him to be, for I desire to follow only Him.

But only how you desire to follow Him.

And together we bear the cross of EVERYTHING we understand together.

And there we all unite to join in joyful sharing of what is to come.

Judge others not for where they go to find what will never be known.

Know that life is lived as God would have it, and His answer to life has been given.

The paradox is that we seek an answer to life when there was never a question.

We endeavor to bridge a gap that never was in the beginning.

Christ has shown the way.

We travel the wrong way when we seek anything beyond dimensions that never existed. We will scientifically explain everything, and prove (believe) accordingly. We will justify our point of view because "we gotta come from somewhere" or "look at the world this way" or "you gotta live in this world!"

I would vehemently argue otherwise and agree one thousand percent!

It is not about how we are living, it is about how we are dying as the paradox continues. As much as God knows that we understand, the Love of Christ is in the beginning. Nothing else mattered (or was known).

I intently desire to know more fully who my God is.

Where shall I find Him?

In you!

Live not only for maturity and wisdom, see the world through the eyes of the beginning.

This is why this moment is created.

May His Peace be with you.

A Measure of My Success

What gives me the right to...?

How do I deserve to...?
Fill in the blanks.

Have these types of questions led to far too many sticking points along the way?

me too...

The Prodigal Son 

For those whom would like a refresher see Luke 15:11-32.

Do you share the indignence felt by the son who stayed home and honored the father, yet was not treated with the same enthusiasm as his brother by the father?

After all the other guy screwed up!

Do you also share in the understanding of the enthusiasm and love that the prodigal son is welcomed home too?

Wow, what a blessing!

Consider this.

We are NEVER the deserving son at the side of the Father.

The entitled perspective is not of God.
That perspective should be foreign to us as a way of living.
The Father emphatically makes this even more clear  "He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours."  (Luke 15:31).
It just is.

We are ALWAYS that Prodigal son.

Here is where Jesus is asking us to live.  Always welcome home from that last journey…

God knows that His perfect Love is attainable on the journey of the next right step.

Always joyfully follow the prodigal son home.  It is who we are meant to be in the story.

The Daily Workers

For those who would like a refresher see Matthew 20:1-16.

So, I worked 12 hours and you worked 1 hour doing the exact same thing and we got paid the same wage?

In this day and age it is easy how to see how we would not be going back to work for that boss.  Or at least not without a better understanding of his pay system.

Uh, don’t know how this could ever be fair?

Again we are being asked to live from the place where unfairness is irrelevant.

We can NEVER come from the perspective of the laborer who did not get treated fairly by God.

His promise is consistent and equal and cannot be merited or earned by a seemingly greater worldy effort.

We are missing from this story.
We are the laborers who arrived as the job opened, worked for God till the sunset, and then gratefully rejoiced in His reward! 

Humble service to God, just for the sake of Him is His greatest gift.
"Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last."  (Matthew 20:16)
The last are the ones with Christ!

We pray to humble ourselves such that we ALWAYS come from the perspective that God will provide for all that we need by Him.

We also pray to understand that such as our life is a gift from Him, we live to return that very gift by following the map of Christ.

If we are living for the gifts of the world, then there will always be a measure for our success.

If we are living in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, then our success will be beyond measure.

Lord, in your ever loving Spirit may we all meet…

The reality is that we are all worthy of living as Christ has taught us.
Amen