Here we go--the part of salvation that so many of us misunderstand. It's when Jesus starts "cleaning house. He'll make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in it's proper place before God; everything false He'll put out with the trash to be burned." This is an easy-to-read but very hard-to-experience part of our walk with Jesus. It feels like we are being turned upside down; truth is we are being set right side up. It feels like so much is "going wrong" in our lives. Things we used to rely on are not in place; we grasp for familiar props only to find they aren't there anymore. It's withdrawal time. And withdrawal is hell on earth, while it's happening to us. But change your viewpoint, brother, sister. This is the proof of our transformation, our redemption is at work within us. The internal shuffle is a good thing. Time to laugh, thank God, praise Him for what's going on. The feelings will change once your perspective does. Hallelujah, here we go!
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Inside out! part 2
God's standard of calling-it-as-it-is is seen in "Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire." It is too easy to refer to a one-time experience, or a spiritual lineage, and claim "I'm safe." Jesus wants the real, the visible, the tangible fruit. Your life, brother; your life, sister. What is the offspring of your soul? What has your life given birth to? Measure your significance through that. Not the projects, or the achievements, but the level of changed-ness you live in daily. That truly gives glory to Jesus, to our Father. Inside out. Join the revolution; be a world changer-- live radically saved--inside out.
Inside out! part 1
I can't help but sense Jesus' power and passion for our lives to be significantly different when I read this! Look at it--"He will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out!" This is what it's all about--letting that fire burn and have it's way with you. That kingdom life is within--not a badge, not a church, not a label, not a way of talking, of singing, of praying. That kingdom life is FIRE. Being saved, being His, is all about being in a state of constant burning. And that fire has to get hot enough, hot enough to change your current state of being. Transform you from within. Burn hot enough to change the way you think, you feel, you react. Be a burning transformed being, changing, never the same, always hot. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus, here I am, burn away!
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