This frees us to be who we were created to be, not acting under the scrutiny or manipulation of pleasing others or gaining their approval, respect or admiration. People respond to our passions, because when you’re passionate about something you can feel it, there’s no real explanation other than you can just feel it. Be passionate and don’t be embarrassed to share it, it’s who you are and trust me, it’s good! Not everyone is going to resonate with it and will think it’s weird, that’s ok too. You gotta do you, embrace it and share you with this world that so desperately needs individuals who together make up a beautiful body of people3!
So where is God in suffering? In death, heartache, fights, failures, and unemployment? God is right there with you, letting you be you. Letting you be angry, hurt, sad, scared and frustrated, because that’s you. He meets you where you are at and whispers, “You’re enough, and I’m not going anywhere. There isn’t anything you can do to lose my love or earn it. It never wanes or waxes. It’s the constant you seek for in so many other places and it’s here, from me.” Logic, reason and mathematics go straight out the window. Brennan Manning says it best in The Ragamuffin Gospel, “The call asks, Do you really accept the message that God is head over heels in love with you? I believe that this question is at the core of our ability to mature and grow spiritually. If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the Cross.”4
Every moment of life, on the mountain tops, in the valleys and on the plateaus, Christ’s love and pursuit of us remains consistent. My prayer is that we all accept, realize and live in God’s grace that’s been freely given and frees us to be our true selves that we were created to be, glorifying him and loving recklessly like he recklessly loves us.
Question to ponder: do you feel free to be your true self, living without the yoke of others expectations weighing you down?.”5
1 If it’s not Hellman’s you were either captured and tortured by the owners of Miracle Whip and now have Stockholm Syndrome or just have never experienced the greatness that is Hellman’s mayo.
2 You know to make sure you’re a real person because hologram technology these days, I tell ya.
3 See Ephesians 4:16 and 1 Corinthians 12:12
4 Here’s another fantastic one, because I love Manning’s words on grace, “My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
5 That means spontaneous moments of dance, weird voices (especially accents) and face making. Or just being introverted if that’s what you’re in to.
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