Overflowing with energy & time
The bible's epic story is God's unconditional acceptance and love, and His desire to know each one of us in an intimate personal relationship. There is no truth, higher learning, more sophisticated understanding or enlightenment other than God's unconditional acceptance and love of you...that's why it says we need the power of God...to know how wide, deep, long and high is His acceptance and love.In our humaness we are motivated by a pursuit of acceptance, love, worth and meaning. We seek them in friendships, family, sports/recreation, the workplace, society, everything and everywhere...it's what drives us.
We have them. Yep...WE HAVE THEM...in our most significant relationship with our most important person, God-Christ-Holy Spirit...but our search continues. We don't rest in His unconditional acceptance and love because we don't value it as much as the conditional acceptance and love of others.
What would life be like if our need for unconditional acceptance and love was satisfied? What would motivate/drive us then?
In our human existance we have a limited amount of energy and time. Seeking unconditional acceptance and love is the major user of these limited resources. Resting in His unconditional acceptance and love frees up huge amounts of energy and time...but...to what end?
What happens with our energy and time freed up from resting in His unconditional acceptance/love?
It pours out...like filling a glass (us) with water and not stopping when the glass is full but continuing to fill it...the water overflows and gets all that's near it wet. When we receive and rest in His unconditional acceptance and love...it overflows and gets everybody around us "wet" (covered with His love). Our energy and time spills out in unconditional acceptance and love of those around us...like it says...faith expressing itself in love.
posted by Rick @ 5:09 AM
1 Comments:
Why is it that God's love and acceptance of us seems to mean so little compared to our hunger for the world's love and acceptance? We obviously have not truly come to grips with how profound and reality altering the first is and are too willing to settle for the fleeting and bondage creating reality of the other. Insane.
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