Christianity's about effort - about expending blood, sweat and tears to be what you've been designed by God to be and do what you've been designed by God to do. That's certainly not incompatible with personal fulfilment and lasting happiness - quite the reverse. What's incompatible is not bothering to find out who one is, settling for something less or something other than what one should be, trampling on others in order to realise a self designed by the ego instead of valuing and caring for others in order to realise the true self designed by God.
-Chapter 21 Section 10 Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch
The more I pursue the heart of God the more I find the same theme, the same message, the same absolute truth.
God is about freedom.
God is about love.
God is about truth.
God is for life.
The more I dig for God the more I find how much God wants us to battle fear. How much God wants us to conquer sleep. To live.
Personal fulfilment and lasting happiness can be found in expending blood, sweat and tears. To express what God has placed in our hearts. To be exactly what we are designed to be without the influence of human opinions or inner fears.
I am reminded again of what Bea told me about reconnecting to God through the sweat or our brow.
what fulfilment would there be in a life of settling and trampling? It isn't the true self. It isn't the true creation God has designed. It is a result of fear and imprisonment.
Lately the more I've been learning about God's heart the less words I've been able to write. The shorter and shorter my prayers seem to get.
I find myself more and more sitting in silence trying to comprehend but finding that the more I comprehend the more I realize I don't understand and the whole journey of seeking and knocking turns into a place of rest and adoration.
But its strange how the journey of seeking and knocking may lead you to a place of realizing God has been inside you with you everywhere but the journey is still a very crucial part.
Without the seeking there can be no rest and it is in the rest that I find the need to seek.
Teach me how to trust you Jesus
free her heart
heal Bea
heal me
The Psalters - Badlands
-Chapter 21 Section 10 Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch
The more I pursue the heart of God the more I find the same theme, the same message, the same absolute truth.
God is about freedom.
God is about love.
God is about truth.
God is for life.
The more I dig for God the more I find how much God wants us to battle fear. How much God wants us to conquer sleep. To live.
Personal fulfilment and lasting happiness can be found in expending blood, sweat and tears. To express what God has placed in our hearts. To be exactly what we are designed to be without the influence of human opinions or inner fears.
I am reminded again of what Bea told me about reconnecting to God through the sweat or our brow.
what fulfilment would there be in a life of settling and trampling? It isn't the true self. It isn't the true creation God has designed. It is a result of fear and imprisonment.
Lately the more I've been learning about God's heart the less words I've been able to write. The shorter and shorter my prayers seem to get.
I find myself more and more sitting in silence trying to comprehend but finding that the more I comprehend the more I realize I don't understand and the whole journey of seeking and knocking turns into a place of rest and adoration.
But its strange how the journey of seeking and knocking may lead you to a place of realizing God has been inside you with you everywhere but the journey is still a very crucial part.
Without the seeking there can be no rest and it is in the rest that I find the need to seek.
Teach me how to trust you Jesus
free her heart
heal Bea
heal me
The Psalters - Badlands