Realizing some of the articles this week may sound as if they are trending a bit toward self-deprecation, I assure you, I am feeling good about life. That's what I come to realize more fully every day. Feeling good about who we are is not a superficial or physical thing at all, it's spiritual . . . and I think you have to know our Good Creator, the One who truly is good, to feel good about anything else. I have discovered, I feel best when I'm not thinking about myself at all! Being busy about the Father's business is the best "feeling" in the world. In the past few weeks, there have been some real emotional hurdles between the headlines, an injury, moving the store, harvest and canning season, developing the new line of product, and facing the facts about Loosed Woman. It was through those hurdles, I became intensely aware that not all of the hurdles were actually in the path of the Plan. I realized just how important purpose is in our life; His purpose. His purpose truly is the reason I'm alive and that affects my emotions more than the things I see around me.
I was making a religious struggle out of Loosed Woman. There is no human juggling needed in obedience, just simple obedience. Once I stopped trying to move the emotional hurdles myself, while attempting to jump them, life became orderly. YHWH's purpose for me didn't come with hurdles, I brought those! We drag so much along to our "new life." As a matter of fact, born again is just what Adonai promised, we can be a new creature in Messiah, but so often, we bring our old garbage to our new opportunity. Meanwhile, the inspirations can often be clouded with our old perspective. That's not to say there won't be problems or struggles along the way.
Growing up, I was taught appearance was everything. Appearance being everything from weight, to attire, to "normalcy," proper, happy family . . . etc. Messiah says to place appearances above matters of the heart is hypocrisy. Being right with our Creator is everything, and these other things will reflect that. So much of what Messiah taught and shared was considered wrong from the crowd that strove for the sake of appearance. So, the reality is, when I feel inspired, my appearance may vary . . . depending upon what I'm inspired to do, and I feel better aiming for the goal which He inspires, than aiming for "pretty" or the sake of appearance.
Some days are just a lot of work that seems inconsequential, but that's not the way Abba looks at things. He looks at our hearts as we carry out the most mundane of projects, or our willingness to tackle something that can only be accomplished by "I can do all things through Messiah who strengthens me." Just like Paul, when I was a child I thought as a child, I spoke as a child . . . I grew up in the country on 10 acres and I knew in my heart of hearts, I would never live that way again! Well, I'm living in the country on 10 acres, but it's completely different. I'm here for a purpose. As I do things around here, though, I realize I grew up where and how I did for a purpose, also.
There is a vast difference between the values of our society and the truth of Scripture. Actually, since the founding of this nation, we've done what was right in our own eyes and said G-d should bless our goodness. I'm discovering through my many projects that He's calling His people back to His goodness. I can be barefoot in the garden with a ridiculously practical hair do, an old shirt and worn out skirt doing what Abba has called me to do, and feel pretty. I can be up to my elbows in vegetables and canning jars, again with a hair do that defies the imagination and feel absolutely feminine. Feeling inspired always makes me think of the Proverbs 31 woman, and she was far beyond "feeling pretty," she had a beautiful spirit!
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