Look! part 3
What you see is what you be. It's really that simple. What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. What you give your three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) to is what has importance and prominance in your life. What you feed is what will grow. That's why it's so important to SET your affection. To do things purposefully. To look to the Rock from which you were hewn. To look at the serpent on the pole (Jesus on the cross) instead of the snakes slithering around your ankles. 1 John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." This is one of my absolute favorite memory verses. Because it puts it out there--we are Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. That's a done deal. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:29). That was the cross. In the beginning we were created in the image and likeness of God. But it was dark out. Hard to see. So God said, "Let there be light." He gave us His only begotten Son. Conformed us the image we had already been created in. And that's important because until you know who you are, it's almost impossible to be who you are. Until you can see it... you can't really be it. Moses told the people, "Look and live!" That's the key to this whole thing. When you see Jesus appear (to you, and in you, and through you, and as you) you see yourself as you truly are. Because you see HIM as He truly is. And as He is, so are we in this world. When God looks at you He sees Jesus, and when He looks at Jesus He sees you. There is no difference and no separation. The problem is when we don't know HIM. That's when we look for love in all the wrong places. That's when we focus on the serpents at our heels and get caught up in all the trials and tribulations, all the problems (most of them self-created) that we (think we) have to deal with. Life is not as hard or as complicated as we oftentimes make it out to be. Sometimes (all the time) we should just be still and know that HE is God. Let God do what HE wants to do (again) in us, and through us, and as us. Do whatever we do from a posture of rest. And understand that rest is not inactivity, it is Holy Spirit directed activity. Rest is not doing nothing, rest is doing whatsoever you do heartily--to the best of your ability, because it's in your heart to do it. So keep your focus on the things that matter. God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. Don't let your vision be pulled away from what's really important. And if you do... set your sights again. Be purposeful. Major on the majors and minor on the minors. Make sure you're giving your three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) to what really matters. Make sure you're spending your resources and not wasting them. Time is one of the most precious things you have. People spell love "T-I-M-E." So make sure when you're looking... you're seeing. Make sure you're looking in the right place. Looking at the right thing. Tomorrow we're really going to hit it hard about where and what that right place and thing is. Spoiler alert: It's looking in the mirror. With an open face. Seeing the glory of God and being changed into that image from glory to glory. Seeing what's really inside and letting it out by filling yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with!