Like the sea shells that wash up on shore.
Wanting to physically shed.........shed the things of this world; pride, vanity, and insincerity..........not wanting to worry about impressions anymore.
What do we really need in this world anyway?
Couldn't we live with a little less?
The most exhausting thing in life is having a costume closet!
The being......insincere.
Social Life in Babylon can exhaust you...........resolve.........is the only way to grace.
Shedding the mask.......surrendering.......being who God says you are is the way to feel His grace.
Simplification can bring forth the shedding.......the kind that is spiritual........spiritual freedom.
We have a choice..............between simplicity or complication of life.
What will we choose? Simplicity? or Complication? Most of us choose the complication?
Is it because we crave the drama?
Love the fight for control instead of surrendering? The wanting..........wanting to be our own god?
Does it really boil down to unbelief?
Do I not believe God can and will give me grace regardless of my undeserving self?
Then that is a slap in the Savior's face.
The time is coming that could enforce upon us simplification.
The world is changing and until we get it....until we start the seeing..........seeing the beauty of God all around us........in the wind that blows through the trees, in the leaves that fall like God's grace, in the sunlight that spills in from the glass...........even to the pollen that collects on the porch.
To the crumbs on the counters................to the unmade beds and the laundry that piles up daily.
Beauty that is all around us. Life that can be raw sometimes and hard.....it can come at you fast. We must learn to glorify by:
seeing the world through the new kind of eyes............God's eyes.
God is the one who teaches us that when your eyes are bad.....your whole being is filled with the darkness.
Satan is trying to keep us from the seeing............causing the darkness to spread like a virus....that leaves our souls feeling the empty.
Am I begging for the grace but preferring the empty?
Am I blinded by my own me-ism?
God's Word is our glasses....................to see the world from His lens.
We have to shed our me-ism..............laying down the pride..............the selfishness...........the vanity and start the simpler living..................by the reading................the reading of God's Word which causes us the seeing again....through the lens of God.............. the kind of lens that the great physician ordered................ones that are prescription..... ones that keep us from being the blinded by our own self........the me-ism syndrome that can complicate life.
When looking at the world through the eyes of God (His Word), then you are the light.........the light in the darkness. No longer does the darkness dwell inside of you. The change starts from the inside.
We have the choice for now....................the choice to change..........to shed ones shell knowing that
shedding the old you is the beginning of grace......................... shedding starts by losing yourself.
We will only find ourselves when we lose ourselves.
God is faithful...............wanting to pour out His Grace...........everywhere. You have to want to see it.........in the everyday moments...............praying for my eyes to be the open wide.......by the opening of His word.
all of grace,
Robbie
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
(Matthew 10:39)
Thankful for :
Sunday night dinner
for a pastor who speaks the truth
for mason jars to drink sweet tea
summer storms
for the choir woman who hugs me the long and hard and whispers are you OK? And we don't even know each other's name.
for the trash that is always overflowing
for my daughter coming home to tell me about her night
for a church service that makes you cry the hard
