Human Being part 1
We are human beings, not human doings. That's what I want to focus on for the next few days. We think we need to rush around all day every day. We think if we're not doing something we're not being productive. And if we're not being productive... then we're wasting our lives. That's the common misconception. Look at Psalm 46:10, "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." A few things here. Number 1. Be still. You don't have to run around like a chicken with its head cut off in order to "serve God." Number 2. It is the being and the knowing that is important. And let me say this: If you be still, you can know that He is God. If you rest in His loving arms you can experience His fullness. If you're always trying to do things... you can miss out on what God has for you. And the third thing: When you are still, and you know that HE is God... that is when He is exalted. Not when you're trying to shove Jesus down people's throats, but when you are being still. And, let me say this, being still does not mean you aren't doing anything. It simply means you are doing things from a place of rest. And rest is not inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity. Rest is letting Jesus live His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of Love in us, and through us, and as us. Rest is letting what is inside--what is REALLY inside... the love of Christ--flow out of you by knowing and believing it is in there. And I'm not talking about doing in order to be. I'm not talking about faking it until you're making it. We don't do in order to be. That is the lie that the serpent hissed into Eve's ear way back in the misty garden of Eden. "Eat from the right tree and you'll be like God." When, in truth, we were created in the image and likeness of God. We never had to do anything in order to be what we were created to be. The problem was that we didn't know who we were. And the best we could come up with was, "Yeah... that sepent seems to know what he's talking about. Do in order to be. That makes a lot of sense." It sounded good. It was easy to swallow. Not easy to DO, as we would suddenly and constantly find out. But it sounded good. That took a lot of undoing, unfortunately. And in fact, we're still trying to undo a lot of the damage done way back then. Fighting all these other battles instead of just fighting the good fight of faith. Trying to be someone we're not (by doing what we think we're "supposed" to) instead of just being who we are. That's the key to this whole life: Accepting, and embracing, and being who we are. Who we REALLY are. Which is who we are in Christ. Which is who Christ is in us. So just be. Rest--and I'm talking physical as well as Spiritual--is so important. You can wear yourself out trying to be a "good Christian." And that's a never-ending, unwinnable battle. If you bang your head against the wall, all you will get is a headache. You can't be someone you're not. Not for any real length of time, and not to any true degree. What you do flows from what you believe. Not the other way around. We don't do in order to be. We do BECAUSE we be. We let what's inside flow out. That's the divine order of things. That's how this life is supposed to work, and supposed to go. So stop doing so much and just be who you are. Who you really are. A human being, not a human doing.