"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
knowing God is not enough.
I spent today sitting in a coffee shop listening to worship music and simly being. And during my frequent attention-deficit-disorder-scannings-of-the-people-places-and-things around me, I noticed a display with books about the Kennedys. One book about the life was open to a page that had the phrase “An Unfinished Life”. I kept staring back at this phrase transfixed by the idea of living an unfinished life when we aren't dead yet.
Hear me out.
Knowing God isn't enough. I could know God, go to a weekly worship service, spend time in the word and it would be living an unfinished life.
Hear me out.
I saw a coffee cup quote while sitting here (I get distracted easily, this I know) that said “just when the catepillar thought it was all over,it became a butterfly”.
I know you're thinking what in the *&$^%&$ does this have to do with the price of an egg in China?!
Hear me out.
Romans 1:21 says:
“for although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him because they became futile in their thinking...”
We know of God but are we congnisant of Him around us? Would we hear if He asked us to pay for the car behind us in a drive thru line? Or if He prodded our heart to pray with a person in the other aisle in Walmart? Are we like the catepillar and become so distraught with how things look at the moment that we don't trust that He won't leave us a catepillar. You haven't reached your full potential. God won't leave you where you are if you are acting in full obedience to His word.
Let me translate that scripture into the MCWversion:
“even though they knew God, they weren't aware of Him in everything. They lived an unfinished life; thus encountering God only at certain times rather than in everything; and their mindset became stagnant, without growth, stunted and unfruitful”
When we limit God to an encounter in morning quiet time or a weekly worship service, we miss all that He has to say and wants to do in and through us throughout the day. Thus, we are walking around living an unfinished life.
Recently a friend and I were discussing how we feel like we are so busy that every time we have time with the Lord we are just delivering a laundry list. You know what I think? I need to SHUT UP sometimes.
God doesn't live in your morning quiet times. God doesn't live in a church a building. He lives in you and in me.
If the catepillar would have thought God only lived in a certain time
or certain circumstance or certain moment then
he never would have held on to see the transformation
that God did in HIS OWN time.
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I love it! When you're in a clear place in your heart and mind, God really speaks to you and through you. Keep focused on Him and keep writing.
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