Meaning of Life part 3
Expectations. They screw us up every time. Because life is messy. It doesn't go as planned. In fact, (I don't necessarily believe this but...) I've heard it said that if you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans. Now the Bible says, "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:6). And I guess, really, that's the difference. If you try to do it yourself, if you try to live out of your own power--even if (ESPECIALLY if) you try to live Jesus' life out of your own power--then you will fail. With man it is impossible. But with God all things are possible. See, life isn't about working FOR God. We saw this yesterday. The Son lives BY the Father. He walks hand in hand with Daddy, only doing what He sees Daddy do and only saying what He hears Daddy say. He's the glorious truth about that though: It's not, "I saw Daddy do it now I have to do it." It's, "I saw Daddy do it IN me and now it naturally comes OUT of me!" When God talks He does it with our mouths. We are the address of the omnipresent God. Where you go... there you are. And wherever you go... there HE is. Because He lives in you. So, again, the meaning of life is not to try to be somebody else. It's not trying to fit your life into whatever box you think it's "supposed" to fit into. I think, "supposed to" is one of our greatest enemies. Because when you're trying to make, "supposed to" happen you're missing out on what is actually happening. When you're trying to earn a gift--which is impossible to do--then you're robbing yourself from experiencing and enjoying the gift that has already been given. Stop trying to earn your bread by the sweat of your brow and just sit down (rest) and eat the meal that Jesus prepared for you! Jesus said it's by eating and drinking Him that we have His life. When we totally identify with Him--rather than trying to follow in His foot steps, we understand that He is making His foot steps in our feet--we live His life by letting Him live it in and through and as us. Or, as 2 Peter 1:2-4 puts it, "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knoweldge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and preceious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." The meaning of life... is knowing the Father in the context of the Son. Knowing that we have it all because we have Him. Knowing that Daddy loves us. And in knowing... believing. And in believing... living. We have all these ideas about what we're supposed to do. But those expectations screw us up. Because it's not about DOING. It's about BEING. What we do flows from who we be. And who we be is loved. Who we be... is love! When you know that you are loved... that you are LOVE... then everything you DO flows from love. That's what life is. To live is to love. To love is to live. It's all about love.