When I diminish...
I surrender to Jesus within me.
Nothing is about me. (even though I’m stating first person, this is ‘you’ and ‘us’, this is ‘we’)
There is no human being who is unlovable, unacceptable, unreachable.
When we rest in the Lord...
We can sit in the midst of all storms and pending doom and not be affected spiritually (this is not always physically).
We listen to His voice and follow Him.
We can wait ‘with great patience’ while in the desert places.
We have no fear of calamity, despair or death.
We can live for today and not worry for tomorrow or dredge up the past. (not easy to do is it?)
We can live with just our needs being met and without desire for excess or extravagance. (this is peace)
We know there will be suffering and persecution in the call to follow Jesus. We know there are many hurting human beings who are searching for this message of His Great Love. They are searching for a cup of Living Water.
Compassion does not hide pain, hurt and sorrow. Compassion experiences 'with’, suffers 'with’, cries ‘with’, hurts ‘with’, and sees beyond sin and world beaten exteriors. We have become a people who suffer alone, we are afraid to suffer ‘with’, but when we experience compassion… in ‘suffering with’ we leave room for Jesus to do only what He is able to do.
We are an eternal being with the Spirit of God within us and a deep awareness that our flesh is only temporary. We are Spirit being first then we are flesh, not the other way around. We have awareness of God as we experience Him within us. He no longer is ‘without’ or ‘passing by’ or ‘up there’. John 14…Jesus said I am in the Father, you are in me and I am in you. This is communion as we are one in Him we are one with each other. Healing is from within. Additionally, Jesus said ‘greater things will you do because I will be with my Father’. He created every cell of our fleshly body and He knows our mechanism. His Light is not 'little', His Light is great, His Light and His Love Heals. He is Love. Jesus said, one day you will realize (see and hear with our hearts and experience His Truth). We are returning to our first Love (to make a distinction ‘in this life now’) never to leave It again. The Kingdom of God is 'within' you. In Mark 11 Jesus says pray, ask, believe and receive….all through the new testament Jesus said it is your faith that healed you, go and ‘sin’ no more. He is asking us to stay connected with Him and connected with each other. If we disconnect, we can go to Him at anytime and reconnect. He does not expect or require anything of us other than love Him with our total being and love each other as we love ourselves.
We know the call to follow Him, but have we experienced the call? We know He asked us to leave everything to follow Him but do we know how to drop our nets? It is not for me to tell you when, where or how to answer His call. We have ears to hear, we know His voice. We do what we ‘know’ in our hearts that Jesus is telling us to do. We hear Him and listen to His voice...when He says ‘go’….go...when He says 'come'....come.
