It’s all about Relationships.
Love is the motivator for us to
give ourselves in service. It’s knowing
(intimate awareness and connection, not just having the facts) the love of God
for us that gives us a natural reaction of loving Him back, and that gives us
the desire to express that love. We
cannot truly love without expressing it.
Loving God compels us to love one another and serve one another. Loving God compels us to seek to be more and
more intimate with Him. The more we know
Him the more we want to connect with Him.
The more intimate we are with Him the more we find ourselves loved, and
the more we desire to love Him back.
Being ‘obedient’ to God, actually
means to take off the masks and be who He made us to be, function as He
designed us to function, love in the way that only we can love. It’s not about striving to follow all the rules. No one can do that. Our lives as Christ followers are intended to
make us more like Him. We all have a
facet or facets of who He is built into us, His fingerprint on our lives. Those facets are what we are intended to
portray, to live out, in order to glorify Him.
Not that we toss out all the rules, but that we aim for loving God
rather than trying to be good enough.
And that shift brings us to clarity and peace and a genuineness that
allows Him to shine through our lives.
Living this truth displays His love.
It glorifies Him. It draws us
into a closer relationship with Him and a better understanding of His
love. All of this in turn builds up and
grows our love for Him.
The expression of this love is in
service to others, but not just any service.
Serving one another in Godly love means to be who God created us to
be. We already are exactly who He meant
for us to be at any given moment of our lives.
If we function as He designed us we are loving Him, and it is service to
Him, and it glorifies Him.
Each of us has a unique DNA which
our Father designed for only one person.
In this DNA is the tapestry of our lives where He has woven His
fingerprint in us which – when expressed – glorifies Him. The way we express our love for Him is to be
ourselves and to be the way He created us to be. Every bit of our lives has been designed by
Him to make us who we are, so that we can love Him in our own unique way, and
that is expressed just by being who He made us to be. The most wonderful thing is that we do not
even know that we are loving Him, glorifying Him, as we go about being who we
are.
{I offer a different meaning for
the acronym DNA = Deity & Nurture & Associations.
Deity = God breathed life into us and created us in His image.
Nurture = the family we were born into that is the foundation of our
personality.
Associations = the sum total of our history with people and how they have impacted us.
(including Adam and the sin nature we inherited from him)}
When we belong to God His Spirit that
lives within us perfects the ‘gifts’ that He has created in us, as part of
us. Our natural inclinations, talents,
enjoyments, the way we think, how we do things, our desires hopes and dreams,
all are unique and exactly how He designed us to be, in order to praise
Him. It is not difficult to do what He
designed us to do. It is the essence of
who we are coming out that is what He desires us to be. We’re not supposed to try and become –
anything. We are supposed to be who He
created us to be, and in so doing we glorify Him, bless others, and demonstrate
His love to the world.
[this is not speaking to the evil desires that come with the sin nature
we all bare, but the person that we were intended to be]
Sometimes our desires change over
time and as we grow closer to Him. The
longings of our hearts become the exact things that He knew would give us the
most blessing, and that would bring us to function as He desires. There is no striving in this, no reaching, no
struggle. The obedience is in setting
aside the notions that we must do this or that in order to be ‘good enough’ to
‘earn’ His love.
He has placed His Spirit within us
to lead us into the right paths. If we
stop trying, stop working at ‘becoming’, stop spending all of our energy to be
‘good’, and listen to the Holy Spirit – He will lead us guide us and give us
the strength to let go of all that striving.
He leads us into relaxing and being what He meant for us to be.
Everyone is insecure.
Everyone wants to be loved and
accepted.
God loves us and accepts us just
how we are.
Nothing can ever be done to be more
loved by God, and nothing to be less loved by Him.
His love for us is and has been and
always will be constantly the fullest possible.
We don’t have to work to change who
we are in order to meet any standard so that He will love us, or love us
more.
Jesus did that for us = we get to
be seen as Him. He is the standard, and
our Father loved us enough to give that to us because we’d never measure up on
our own.
So when our Father looks at us he
sees Christ in us. What this means is
that we do not have to ‘act’ or ‘fake’ or strive to be anything other than who
we were created to be.
And the great news is that we
are. We are in this moment just where He
intended us to be. Nothing has taken Him
by surprise in our lives. He never lost
control. Everything in our past was purposeful
in each of our lives, as part of His design for who we are. What Satin meant for evil God has used for
good. He uses it to mold us into His
image. Note that He does the molding,
not us. Our only responsibility is to
love Him and one another.
The way we love Him is to function
as He designed us to function, serve others as we have been gifted, and keep
our hearts as close to Him as we can.
It is in desiring and seeking to be
more and more intimate with Him, learning more about Him, being who we are as
He made us, and loving one another how He has uniquely designed us to love.
It’s not about the rules, it’s
about relationship. Put your hand to
what you have before you. You are
exactly where you are supposed to be at this moment.
Take off the mask, be who He made
you to be, love in your own unique way to His glory, and in this way chase
after Him and draw close to the Lover Creator God who knows your name.
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