Each of us has issues, and areas that we need to surpass, and grow from, in which case *GOD* works us like clay, to use an old standardized explanation of HIS LOVING creativity of making us into HIS REFLECTIONS...
We ARE HIS vessels, HIS instruments, and NOT privy, exactly, of HIS LOFTY use of us, in which case, we are Sanctified, Consecrated, and Perfected...
Sometimes HE is teaching us that we are nothing without HIM, sometimes HE wants us to REALIZE, once and for all, we MUST RELY ON HIM, sometimes HE is showing us HIS MIGHTY powers, sometimes HE is humbling us, sometimes HE is exhibiting HIS strength in our weaknesses, sometimes HE is disciplining us, sometimes HE is moving us through a series of lessons for more complete, and HIGHER understanding of HIS WILL, and WAYS, sometimes HE is reminding us to LOVE as HE does, and to be examples of HIS GRACE, and MERCY, sometimes HE is leading us past enmity, sometimes HE is shaking up our complacency, sometimes HE is helping us to understand WHY we need salvation, sometimes HE is urging us to step INTO HIM sincerely, whole-heartedly, and completely, and so on, but most of all, HE is ENSURING our ability to bear fruit worthy of THE SPIRIT, and to SHINE of HIM in us...
It doesn't matter how much a person THINKS they know about THE LORD, there is ALWAYS much to know, to understand, to embrace, and mostly, to utilize, THAT it is clearly evident, not only to ourselves, but to the world, that we ARE OF HIM, for the good of of all, and for HIS GLORY! HE, being our MASTER, our FATHER, our TEACHER, our SAVIOUR, our everything, will NOT relent in FREEING us from the shrouds of deception which hinder our very spirit, which BELONGS TO HIM, and which IS imperative to TRUE LIFE, which is yet to come! Though we endure tests, trials, tribulations, thorns in the flesh, and more, we ARE being REFINED INTO THE PEOPLE WE WERE CREATED TO BE, which has NO remaining tainting of the world, and it's ways...
Improving ourselves WILL see us stumbling, tripping, and falling, after all, we are in the world, raised by the world, and retain worldly ways, even if we have given our lives to HIM, in which case, finds even more challenges as we are tested by other means such as people, things, places, and the enemy in full arsenal. We CAN'T do any of this alone, it IS THE LORD *GOD* working in us, through us, and around us, FOR HIS WILL, our eternal standing, and HIS GLORY!!!
At times it seems as if we are failing miserably, but that we are aware of our shortcomings, is indicative of growth! That we CARE enough to sense our failings, indicates measures of our allegiance to HIM! In such times, we PRAY, and we TRUST HIM completely, to lead us where HE intends us to be, body, heart, mind, and spirit!!!
Oh, the many challenges of any given day! But, how else would we KNOW that we ARE growing UP INTO HIM, and HOW could we understand HIM OVER the world, if HE did not move in us???
As things unfold during the activities of any given day, we SEE the areas where we NEED to grow, which also, brings us into greater humility, and RELIANCE on HIM! We NOTICE when we slip, when we err, when we are weak, and this IS A GOOD THING, because it SHOWS that we ARE ON THE PATH, and INCREASES our DEPENDENCE ON HIM!!!
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON, and LEARN to roll with the movement of *GOD*! Become ONE with THE SPIRIT, and SEEK THE LORD at ALL times, PRAY, and REMAIN FOCUSED on the end goal, the prize, the GLORY of HIS MAJESTY, in which we will share forevermore! ARISE to the challenges, and be encouraged by them! EMBRACE their crucial importance! Be GLAD that HE LOVES enough to perfect, and to ELEVATE us ABOVE what is bent on chaining us down eternally!!!
PRAISE THE LORD, BLESS HIM, WORSHIP HIS HOLINESS, REJOICE IN HIS LOVING CARE, HONOUR HIM BY remaining open TO HIM, and UTILIZING what HE teaches, EXALT HIM, and EXEMPLIFY HIM! PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, and let LOVE BE what is left in your footsteps, that HE IS GLORIFIED, and thereby, INSPIRING others!!!
REV. LWINSOR © 2014
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