| Preface: In the massive comeuppance of
the esoterically history of the significant troublesome bodies of the
sojourn that the stars expostulated into the expanse of knowledge and
causate into relevant relationships of externalities, there was a
light and a reel emotionally unfit for the nationalistic “it” in
the trivial excrements that so congregate into the far off existence
known as a ride from foreseeable Fortaleza. In spite of this tragic
inhabitance of celestial stances there is also the feeling of great
spandrels of potency. And if we could just put this into practice,
we could all be a little more contraindicated.
Ok ok, so the real story....With edible words.
I
drank a cup of coffee, so I think I am going to share this massive
thought.
God
has been teaching me.
Spiritual
life Journal assignment: Take one.
Ouch......
No
one likes to suffer. It's something that should be avoided, but
sometimes the cause in the suffering doesn't allow us to avoid it.
Most cases of suffering heaps itself upon the host without the cause
being weighed. It doesn't have to have an invitation or a foreseeable
purpose. It just comes?
I
can remember quite a few times where in my life I could have possibly
been killed or severely hurt, I believe that God has protected me
more times than I can recognize. But what about the other times when
there was pain? It says in Psalms that all my times are in His hands.
Then why would God allow certain trials and reflect others?
Suffering
is something deeper than being defined as a physical pain, for me
it's a deeper understanding, it relates from within, my relationship
with God. “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” When
there has been struggle in my life it always brings me to a stronger
sense of reality as to who I am in Christ, and the significance of my
life. Because to LIVE is Christ. Suffering is the process where all
the inconsistencies and meaningless noise of life's falsehoods are
able to melt away as the deeper substance that we are all searching
for becomes clearer. I remember the first time working with the
mentally impaired. My first meeting was that of an encapsulating rib
squeezing hug added with an infectious smile that no one could escape
as it created a ripple effect of love and joy. They are some of
the most Christ like people I had ever met. I saw them and I saw
lives with less of the muck that captures me, bogs me down into the
less satisfying trivialities that life has to offer. I am not sure
what exactly the context he used it in but it applies. C.S. Lewis
said “We are like an ignorant child who want to go on making mud
pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer
of a holiday by the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” It's
interesting to think that God has been shaping me in ways simplifying
my life and making me more like those friends who wouldn't turn down
a second offer of a hug, even if I rejected their first. Their love
seemed much less conditional than mine.
I
think about what people communicate on their death beds and I have
never heard that the dying person wished that they could have had a
little more money, more power, more sex or pleasure. We have trouble
realizing that to LIVE, is Christ. Scripture describes in John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full. We forget and keep
moving away from the things that are important. Everything apart from
God is meaningless, we spin in circles with lives lived without the
importance of Christ. So often we miss the point, and try to
duplicate the experience of the abundant life, we create our facade
and allow our skim priorities to get the best of us as we trim our
presentation for those we are surrounded by. Sometimes we spend more
effort laboring in the presentation of love than love itself.
These
are some thoughts that now come to my mind when I now think of
suffering. To LIVE. Ps
16:2
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I
said to the Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from you I have no
good thing." Sometimes suffering is presented as a discipline,
and it is, but when in the boiling pot it's important for us to
realize why we would be glad to bear under that struggle as it talks
about in James.
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Ultimately
through the struggle that God allows, we can have joy and
satisfaction of glorifying God and living an abundant and fulfilled
life-closer to God. That's how we are created, there is no amount of
noise or distraction that will ever fill the gap of the heart
created to live abundantly-closer to God.
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To
feel more passion, to be filled spilling over in love, everything
that we desire is linked to living a closer life to God, and
sometimes through struggles God uses them to peal away the coatings
that conflict with the image of our making to develop an authentic
life. When we deny the verse “for to me, to live is Christ and to
die is gain.” We deny our own identity. I have been prone to
thinking that to live for God is a price, and it absolutely is, it's
the price of this world, but it returns treasures that are real,
more real than the most addicting pleasure this earth can offer. The
dying man doesn't yearn and despair over the missed pleasures of his
youth, he wished he had loved deeper, he wants to share himself with
those who mean the most to him, he yearns to know God.
Spiritual
life journal assignment: Take two
I
find myself fighting the world as it perpetuates insincerities and
things other than love, as I resist in the continuing cycle that we
ourselves power. If I want change, it needs to stop with me. I need
to be able to be Christ to others, as He says of a love that covers a
multitude of sins. Christ was rejected for it, as the perpetuating
snow ball effect of humanity never made it past Christ. He took it as
we sin, he took it and accepted it on the cross, never did Christ
produce hate in response to our failings. We are called to love
unselfishly, even when everyone, and everything, and all the misplaced
hopes of this world are in complete bolstering dishevelment. Yet, we
are supposed to look to God for our strength. By looking for
certain kinds of acceptance in the world, we look into the crap hole
we call humanity instead of turning to our life lived, as it is in Jesus, our eternal
hope.
Man, that's enough postage for at least a half year.
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