Deep calls to deep. This is a This is deep and called to my deep kinda thing. A very rudimentary concept...but deep no less I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me…. This has always given me a vision of courageous acts-- achieving goals, conquering fears, enduring hardship without a hardening of the heart -- that sort of thing. It means so many things and Ive heard so many wonderful interpretations of the depth of these words. I was thinking particularly about the idea of courage this morning though… I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me… I wanted to strip it down to its essence. My heart really needs it. Because i need to do ALL the things I believe I need to do and was made to do. I need the strength. i do not have it. My courage is low. Then the revelation… COURAGE is not the essence of this model. It takes courage to do all things (those THINGS being so different for us all, but ultimately the same). Courage is an outworking, an overflow, a product--An element or tool required to do all bold or challenging things. Thus we pray for courage, thus we step from the boat and so often sink, thus we confuse our very faith with an emotional counterfeit of our real faith walk. We step out boldly with an idea of courage… we fall. Scratch that…. I fall. I fall because God is doing a work in me. He wants me to see that courage has a source. Yes the source is Jesus as I suspected and have been believing for… but…. there is a middle ground / a process. Just as we do not plant a seed and pick fruit the next day, Courage-- as a product, fruit of something greater-- does come from a planted seed by the will of God enlightened upon me so that I might achieve what i was made for--but it is not plant and eat. . What then is our source of /process to courage…like what then is missing from my process to reap in harvest of courage? The answer came to me--Not as a beautiful revelation attained and earned by my wonderful works and awesome prayer life. I wish that were the case. No it came to me in a throw me a bone Im starving desperate plea to the King of Kings. He in my refining saw that I was broken. The Lord said to me.. You can do all things through Christ. It will take courage. The source of courage is obedience. The Lord said to me, STOP bothering yourself with WHY you refuse to be obedient. THAT is a distortion. THAT is a tactic meant to strip My glory from your deep. STOP questioning my process…just BE OBEDIENT. The Lord says..stop playing. Be obedient. Know that my still and small voice is always speaking to you. Know that I scan the earth looking for ears--Looking for lives that have been intentional to slow down and listen. That is step one of YOUR obedience Billy. Stop the static--Even turn off the radio. Listen for my call. Obedience is not a shackle as the world would tell you. It is freedom. This world will tell you to LIVE LIVE LIVE… all the while by so many worldly models we see it leads to empty death, death death. My model of obedience is designed to free you once and for all because when you are free, you will be fully alive. When you are fully alive I will be glorified and My glory, evident in you, will be YOUR source of courage and it will be YOUR strength and it will be YOUR testimony that will spread like unquenchable fire consuming ALL THINGS that stand between you and what I have made you to do and able to do IN Christ and Christ alone.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:15:53 +0000
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