GRASPING: PART III am beginning to feel the deep mercy and Grace God has given me. I am starting to see the Love that He offers me, not because I love Him, but because He loves me. I am beginning to understand people in a new light and I understand their pain more. Sometimes I wonder if this is Gods way of softening my heart and opening my eyes to people who seem to be untouchable.
When SJB asked me what was the one thing I was hanging onto…I didn't know how to put it into words other then "hope". CD smiled at me one rainy day and reminded me that the three characteristics of God were…. "Hope, faith, and love…" I truly believe deep down, past the layers of pain, hope resides…God resides…
JB reminds me that we serve a God of detail, a God of persistence, and utmost companionship, He will go anywhere any time for whatever reason just to show us that He is head-over-heals in love with us, desiring the truest form of a relationship- Him dwelling in us as we dwell in Him.
From the book The Shack author William Young explains through choice characters, "Consider our little friend here," she began, "most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around." She paused to let Mack think about her statement. "You, on the other hand were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around… Mack, pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly…and if left unattended for very long, you can almost forget that you were able to fly in the first place.
What profound meaning yet simply stated….at least for me. I am going through yet another tuff time and despite my initial thoughts of why I was going through it, I am only now beginning to see that God or "Papa" is asking me to dig deeper, perhaps deeper then I prefer to dig inside me, to have me shout the questions my soul and heart desperately want an answer to.
As I continue to dig deeper I am able to let go of the past and yet at the same time I struggle with the future and wanting the instant gratification of knowing that it will be ok. In The Shack Jesus explains it best, we are limited beings, and in our limitations we allow our fear to overflow our being.
My point…I have lived with pain…allowing it to penetrate who I am, for so long, that I have forgotten who I am in Christ, in a sense I have forgotten how to fly, or that I was even created to fly in the fist place…not something He wants of me…of us.
When SJB asked me what was the one thing I was hanging onto…I didn't know how to put it into words other then "hope". CD smiled at me one rainy day and reminded me that the three characteristics of God were…. "Hope, faith, and love…" I truly believe deep down, past the layers of pain, hope resides…God resides…
JB reminds me that we serve a God of detail, a God of persistence, and utmost companionship, He will go anywhere any time for whatever reason just to show us that He is head-over-heals in love with us, desiring the truest form of a relationship- Him dwelling in us as we dwell in Him.
From the book The Shack author William Young explains through choice characters, "Consider our little friend here," she began, "most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around." She paused to let Mack think about her statement. "You, on the other hand were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around… Mack, pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly…and if left unattended for very long, you can almost forget that you were able to fly in the first place.
What profound meaning yet simply stated….at least for me. I am going through yet another tuff time and despite my initial thoughts of why I was going through it, I am only now beginning to see that God or "Papa" is asking me to dig deeper, perhaps deeper then I prefer to dig inside me, to have me shout the questions my soul and heart desperately want an answer to.
As I continue to dig deeper I am able to let go of the past and yet at the same time I struggle with the future and wanting the instant gratification of knowing that it will be ok. In The Shack Jesus explains it best, we are limited beings, and in our limitations we allow our fear to overflow our being.
My point…I have lived with pain…allowing it to penetrate who I am, for so long, that I have forgotten who I am in Christ, in a sense I have forgotten how to fly, or that I was even created to fly in the fist place…not something He wants of me…of us.
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