Good morning
Zebras,
Oswald from
Monday:
“When the devil
elevates you to a certain place, he causes you to fasten your idea of what
holiness is far beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear or achieve. Your
life becomes a spiritual acrobatic performance high atop a steeple. You cling
to it, trying to maintain your balance and daring not to move. But when God
elevates you by His grace into heavenly places, you find a vast plateau where
you can move about with ease.”
When you decide
what holiness “looks like” and try and attain it, you will find yourself atop
of that steeple. When you give up and
admit all of this is more than you can do, God will do it for you through the
power of the indwelling Spirit and you will find that vast plateau.
I know I said
this Monday but it bears repeating-quit trying so hard and just yield, give-up,
admit defeat. Nothing good lives in you
except what has been put there by God and when you admit that and are willing
to quit trying to prove how smart, kind, loving you are, you will become smart,
kind and loving.
We are never
going to be Jesus, we aren’t supposed to be, because He was both man and
God. We are Adam, man made in the image
of God. And there is a difference.
God has so many
things to think about and take care of, He is after all running the world. We aren’t.
Think of how
Adam was before the Fall. In the Garden,
with all of his needs taken care of, spending time with God. Wouldn’t getting back to that be wonderful?
Matthew
6:31–34 So do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
A big thought
from an old dead guy:
“It is a
Biblical truth that the nearer man comes to God, and the more he reflects the
likeness of God, and the more he hears and obeys the divine Word, the more he
becomes truly “human” i.e. man in the image of God, man as God made and
intended him to be.”
I love it. I don’t have to be Jesus, I just need to be “man”
as God intended Him to be, man made in God’s likeness, filled with His Spirit,
and obedient to His Word.
Jesus’ death
and resurrection put us back into the right relationship with God, the relationship Adam had before the Fall and gave us the indwelling Holy Spirit to
maintain that relationship. Adam messed
up once and he was thrown out of the Garden, when we sin we are forgiven and
given a second, third, fourth chance.
Not to keep sinning but to live in harmony with God.
1 John 2:1 My
dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody
does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the
Righteous One.
Living in the
“Garden” in complete peace is possible but worry, pride, greed, fear, envy and
jealousy are just some of the sins that keep us from getting in.
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world
gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Love,
Jill
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