The Holy One calls to me this morning. The holidays are over for another year and we are heading back into life and business as usual. Familiarity with our own life circumstances can tarnish the golden hope of our dreams for change.
The driving factors in our lives seem to be the same as before all the days of celebration. The places we go to when life gets tough unfortunately can be the same as well: Sleep, alcohol addiction, medications prescribed (or not) to help us cope and before long we have to admit the goal becomes just getting though one more day.
As a Christian it is hard to admit that I love my bed. Sleep, although necessary for good health, can become a tempting escape from the battles that touch my life. The gentle voice of the Holy One calls me out to face another day, "Get up, remember you are a servant".
Perspective is such a vital thing and I have an enemy who is always trying to mess with my perspective. Few people realize the enemy has a voice as well as the Holy Spirit. The enemy speaks to our flesh with temptations to act out an alternative to the way the Holy One would have us live our lives.
The Holy Spirit is well aware of the wrestle inside I was having with my flesh tempter. Evil mocks the promises I have been given and claimed for the new year from my Lord and His word. The enemy started this mental assault yesterday pointing out the duration of life trials and the frustration he knows I have felt in waiting for resolutions.
Were it not for my Counselor within, this might have been a skirmish lost, but the truth of His wisdom reminded me to check my perspective. The truth is so simple: I am a servant. My life is not my own. My world and everything in it belongs to my Master and I am to serve His interests in each day He provides. I can know (in part) His will for what I find on the pathway of this journey called life, because His word IS His will. However, I do not always understand the "ways" of Holiness and that is where my perspective can get tweaked.
His ways are higher than ours and who can truly understand them completely? Just like Mary and Martha who wanted and were looking for a healing for their brother Lazarus, when Jesus called out his resurrection from the dead.
Jesus told us in Matt 20:28. "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many", we are to be servants too. Jesus came as a servant of the Most High. He did not come to be served, I am sure His flesh agenda would not have been to have it crucified. We walk in His footsteps when we allow our own flesh agendas to be crucified.
The reminder by the Holy One was just what I needed today. I am a servant. My agenda is not to be the focus or the goal of my day. As a servant, my time and what I do with it is decided by the One I serve. Strategies can be discussed, but at the close of the discussion, obedience is mandatory. The end of His will for the problems I encounter will be served as I remain a faithful servant.
My perspective can be clouded by the ground war I am in, but Divine perspective knows the end from the beginning and how to best fulfill the desires of my heart according to His will and His ways. Even the timing for resolutions to the situations here on earth is calculated according to the Lord's plan and purpose.
At present that timing may not be known to me, but what I do know is that I am My Lord's servant and that is good enough for today.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
The driving factors in our lives seem to be the same as before all the days of celebration. The places we go to when life gets tough unfortunately can be the same as well: Sleep, alcohol addiction, medications prescribed (or not) to help us cope and before long we have to admit the goal becomes just getting though one more day.
As a Christian it is hard to admit that I love my bed. Sleep, although necessary for good health, can become a tempting escape from the battles that touch my life. The gentle voice of the Holy One calls me out to face another day, "Get up, remember you are a servant".
Perspective is such a vital thing and I have an enemy who is always trying to mess with my perspective. Few people realize the enemy has a voice as well as the Holy Spirit. The enemy speaks to our flesh with temptations to act out an alternative to the way the Holy One would have us live our lives.
The Holy Spirit is well aware of the wrestle inside I was having with my flesh tempter. Evil mocks the promises I have been given and claimed for the new year from my Lord and His word. The enemy started this mental assault yesterday pointing out the duration of life trials and the frustration he knows I have felt in waiting for resolutions.
Were it not for my Counselor within, this might have been a skirmish lost, but the truth of His wisdom reminded me to check my perspective. The truth is so simple: I am a servant. My life is not my own. My world and everything in it belongs to my Master and I am to serve His interests in each day He provides. I can know (in part) His will for what I find on the pathway of this journey called life, because His word IS His will. However, I do not always understand the "ways" of Holiness and that is where my perspective can get tweaked.
His ways are higher than ours and who can truly understand them completely? Just like Mary and Martha who wanted and were looking for a healing for their brother Lazarus, when Jesus called out his resurrection from the dead.
Jesus told us in Matt 20:28. "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many", we are to be servants too. Jesus came as a servant of the Most High. He did not come to be served, I am sure His flesh agenda would not have been to have it crucified. We walk in His footsteps when we allow our own flesh agendas to be crucified.
The reminder by the Holy One was just what I needed today. I am a servant. My agenda is not to be the focus or the goal of my day. As a servant, my time and what I do with it is decided by the One I serve. Strategies can be discussed, but at the close of the discussion, obedience is mandatory. The end of His will for the problems I encounter will be served as I remain a faithful servant.
My perspective can be clouded by the ground war I am in, but Divine perspective knows the end from the beginning and how to best fulfill the desires of my heart according to His will and His ways. Even the timing for resolutions to the situations here on earth is calculated according to the Lord's plan and purpose.
At present that timing may not be known to me, but what I do know is that I am My Lord's servant and that is good enough for today.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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