Thanks to Francis Chan I'm inspired to humble myself and offer my preconceptions to the wisdom of the Spirit. Why try to squeeze by with as much as my thinking as possible when I could embrace surrender and live married and hungry for more of Him, more of His light in the darkness of my futility. Father, I acknowledge you as I write this. Let my words align with the only Word, the only utterance that ever existed. I'm sick of counterfeits and the complications of tedious dialogue that curbs the blatant truth: YOU , Jesus! It's always us who had to change, to soften, to see, to hear, to receive and yet you never held that against us. So much we didn't do when you, the One born of God who shone His face, and yet that was never your concern; that was never the point. You, who were never moved and were life came to the people you made and we were sooo confused and dumb, we didn't know it was you, we didn't want you. Jesus, you still came though. Having a sovereign Father/Creator wasn't enough for You. You came to look like us, like the made, so that we could experience your motive of love in the flesh so that we could know you every possible way. We have no excuse, your blessings have kissed the earth Father. Your wild cry has fallen on our ears whether they are open or not. The fact that we can say, "God became a human for me," is a gift. And still, Jesus didn't enforce commandments or reform or correct or guilt us; Jesus Christ our Creator and Life beholder came SOLELY to show us He came close to be close to us. To shine on eyes that had adapted to pitch black nothingness. This undeserved reaction to our hopeless living shocks our ways. Let us know this whole, unadulterated, man that gives like no other. Let us know Him more and more. Once we start knowing, His fullness makes us want to start giving too, so that through His surprising light we shine into others. Why reject the one who gives us a right to belong to His family? Why filter his wildness to certain ideas and not others? Holy Spirit I write this because of you and through you. Thank you that YOU, God are stubborn about me loving you because your the only One that can give more than I need to take.
6/17/11
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