Three P's part 5
When things line up in Divine Order things really start to flow. Perception--what we see--Perspective--how we see it--and Priority--what we do about it--are the Three P's. And if any one of them are out of whack it can really throw a wrench in the works. It can really get us mixed up, confused. Focused on the wrong thing. Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, trying to finish a work that is already finished. Trying to be someone we're not. Or, worse yet, trying to get other people to be someone they're not. I'm telling you, your job is not to change. The change took place on the cross when we were conformed into the image we were originally created in. Change doesn't need to happen. It already happened. What needs to happen is that we need to SEE the change that happened. We need to SEE things correctly. In ourselves first--because charity starts at home--and then in each other. We need to see through the eyes of grace. The eyes of love. And we need to see things from a perspective other than our own. "Walk a mile in somone else's shoes." If you see where they're coming from, you can see where they're going. You can understand them. And with understanding comes acceptance. When "change" isn't the priority, love can be! When we're not judging each other, but instead embracing each other, that's when we connect on that deep level. That love level. The Jesus in me connecting to the Jesus in you. That's when God's Divine Order manifests. That's when the Kingdom manifests! Not when we try to bring earth to heaven, but when we let heaven come to earth. When we stop trying to get somewhere someday and start experiencing the days of heaven on earth! When we, as Colossians 3:2 says, "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." The NLT puts it like this, "Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth." What you magnify is what will manifest. Concentrate on all the wrong things and you become that headless chicken again, making mountains out of molehills. Major on the majors, and minor on the minors. Get your priorities straight. Love IS the priority. Love is THE priority. Doesn't it seem ridiculous that we would put "getting closer to God" (whatever that means) before our fellow man? How could we get any closer to God than we already are? He lives inside us. In Him we live and move and have our being. In us He lives and moves and has His being. We are One. We couldn't get any closer if we tried. But not, EXPERIENCING Him is something else altoghether. Because experiencing Him is experiencing love. And how do we experience love? By loving people. How do we love God? By loving people. What is our priority? PEOPLE. When people ask me what I do I always say, "I'm in the people business. The helping business. The love business." Because I see love. That's my perception. I see from the perspective of love. I see as my Daddy sees, because the light that He is (that WE are) shines in me and through me. Grace, mercy, forgiveness. Empathy. This is our priority. Not knocking people down, or condemning them, but building people up and affirming them. You can't love someone you don't accept. And you can't accept someone you can't understand. Your Three P's need to be in alignment. And the only way anything ever lines up is when it lines up with the Word. Jesus. Love!