Tagged- memoir blog post

I have been visiting new blogs..not necessarily new, but new to me :)  I had a divine appointment to meet up with Serendipity(on my blog roll…I am so lame I do not know how to link)  She tagged me soooo here it goes…

1. Write the title to your memoir using 6 words
2. Post it on your blog
3. Link to the person that tagged you
4. Tag five more blogs

 

I AM FREE AT LAST HALLELUJAH!

After 20 + years of rebellion, and blaming God for every little thing that was not according to my plan, and after trying everything this world could offer to me…I found that Jesus is the Only One who truly loves me unnconditionally, the Only One who can provide all my needs, the Only one who can save me from myself.  Each and every time I look back on where I have been I am amazed at where I am at.  I see the power of the cross and the love it took for HIM to travel there.  All because I needed HIM to break the chains and set me free.  I am free today because of Jesus and the wonderful plan of God.  I know what it is like to walk in the curse, now living in the blessing…**Happy dance**  **singing**  (like Nicole C Mullen would say) Let the redeemed of the Lord talk about it!

Now I have to tag 5 people ( Michele would not be happy if I tagged her…so I am showing her mercy!)

1.  Heather

2.  Steph

3.  Trina

4.  Brandy

5.  Tanya

NOT Like the World

Would you even think that the world was Godly?  Yet Ephesians 5:1 says to be imitators of God…If I am imitating the world, I am no longer imitating God.  What does that mean?  For me it means that we need to be careful what we say that it is a reflection of our Father…and some conversations I can’t imagine the Creator of the Universe ever speaking or even taking part in.  Its really quite absurd when I think about it.  I want to be like God the Son, and not like the world, the picture of HIM through me will show others that HE is needed, and the only one who can truly deliver.  But if I look like the world, I am just another guru offering something I can not deliver.  Christ followers have stood out since the beginning as odd, crazy, rebels, freaks…and their numbers increased daily!  Popularity is over rated, it almost always means that my moments in the sun are without the Son.  No can do!  I am standing firm and I am not backing down or running to my safety zone…this life and world is just a blink of an eye in comparison to my eternity, and none of it compares to the beauty of my Jesus.  Offer me the world, and I am going to have to say “no thanks, I’ll be holding on to my God…I don’t want to look like the world, see this is not my home, and I am just passing through.”

Mirror Mirror…

When looking in the Mirror, who or what do you see?  Through years of abuse I can absolutely hate the mirror. I can quickly obsess over with all that makes me less than perfect, all the while forgetting I don’t live in a perfect world.  YES I know who I am in Christ, but what the world has to say is a poison to our minds.  Above all the diets, and all the healthy things that are good (in moderation), Jesus was asked what is the greatest command…and HIS reply was …. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and Love your neighbor as yourself”.  I often come back to this, as it defines me more than the mirror.  Am I doing this?  Am I okay with who God has me in this very moment?  I believe all is in HIS control…and right now I am exactly where HE wants me, and exactly who HE wants me to be, and learning exactly what HE is teaching me, and growing in the things HE wants me to grow in….you get the point.  As I learn to Love HIM the way HE has called out as the greatest command, I am learning that other things fall in place.  The Bible is full of instruction. Some seem to pick and choose what is priority…but honestly Jesus said Love is the priority.

Until we actually are doing this, the rest will be a struggle…not that we shouldn’t try, but fall on our faces before our Creator in repentance that we don’t love like we should, and we are not satisfied with who HE has created us to be…Instead of asking HIM what we should be working on to be closer to HIM…we are wrong in choosing for ourselves, we are wrong by taking the convictions of the Holy Spirit that is meant for us, and imposing them on someone else, who has not yet been convicted of that…Are you following me??  As HE is faithful to bring us to completion, HE is not shy and HE is not silent.  Ask HIM what needs to be worked on you, and wait and listen…HE will tell you, and HE will enable you to overcome in whatever area HE ordains.

Father God, tears of repentance and coming before you in total agreeance with you, that you know what is best for each one of us, and individually you bring us to your self.  This is not a group love or group hug, it is personal and detailed by your hand.  We can’t love our neighbor as our self, when we don’t love ourselves, we don’t have a clue how to love you with everything that we are…we forget that in ourselves we can do nothing, but you can do anything/everything!  Help us not to obsess over anything but you.  Stir a hunger in our hearts to be so in love with you.  Burn your word on our hearts, touch our lips and make us clean…without you we are nothing, YOU are glorious…we are your creation, and your creation is glorious, remove our pride, break us, mold us.  I love you and need you more than air…make our “want to” line up with yours.  Your Princess who wants to look in the Mirror and see your Son instead of herself.