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Dismantled: Resistance cannot live in the presence of Jesus
Okay, so God gave us a temple to house the Holy Spirit. Cool. However, He also tells us that the temple actually belongs to Him and commands us to take care of the temple.
I don’t know about you, but when someone “commands“ me to do anything it gets my hackles up, gets my knickers in a knot, and causes Resistance to rise up and stand strong. I get so prideful. And haughty in spirit.
And how does this serve me? I get to be right! I get to live exactly the way I want to! I get to make the choices I want to make!
Yep, sounds like a 4 year old!
And I got to feel empty and incongruent with how I was showing up in my life. Optimistic on the outside, dying on the inside.
SPOILER ALERT: Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs tells us exactly what’s going to happen. Yet, we’re usually surprised when life starts to unravel.
My life certainly unravelled. Not just my health at certain times, also my relationships, finances, and my faith.
Yes, it’s a longer story. You can find it on my earlier podcasts and the links to the Global Leadership Summit (Part 1 and Part 2) story about my journey. Beware, it’s ugly! It was ugly for a long time. I’ve been running from God for over 15 years.
However, the fall and destruction followed. Maybe God is causing part of your destruction, to get your attention. Maybe that health scare was for your benefit. Maybe your summer clothes that don’t fit are a warning. God uses circumstances we understand to communicate His message, loud and clear.
God slowly stripped me of all my external validation. All the “things” I had created and accumulated that defined “who I was” were slowly dismantled. Until, HE was the only “thing” I could see and the only thing left for me to grab.
Resistance cannot live in the presence of Jesus. I was humbled. I got to the place where I had no choice but to look at the price Jesus paid for me. I was reminded that I get to have a relationship with the God who kept chasing after me. And the benefits of that life over the me, me, me and more of me. When I was “all about me”, so was He! He was after the me He created, not the one I created.
Ultimately, I was overcome by gratitude. It’s so much easier to follow from a place of gratitude and love, than that of duty, obligation, fear or shame.
It’s a journey understanding God’s unconditional love for me, my value and self esteem. I’ll be walking you through all of that in upcoming podcasts…However, how are you going to respond to His relentless pursuit of YOU?
You can keep slogging through life or you can create a new one? How are you going to respond? Is your current response serving you? Are you going to keep running? Or are you going to allow God into your heart and life in a new way. Romans 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. God loves you!
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Okay, so God gave us a temple to house the Holy Spirit. Cool. However, He also tells us that the temple actually belongs to Him and commands us to take care of the temple.
I don’t know about you, but when someone “commands“ me to do anything it gets my hackles up, gets my knickers in a knot, and causes Resistance to rise up and stand strong. I get so prideful. And haughty in spirit.
And how does this serve me? I get to be right! I get to live exactly the way I want to! I get to make the choices I want to make!
Yep, sounds like a 4 year old!
And I got to feel empty and incongruent with how I was showing up in my life. Optimistic on the outside, dying on the inside.
SPOILER ALERT: Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs tells us exactly what’s going to happen. Yet, we’re usually surprised when life starts to unravel.
My life certainly unravelled. Not just my health at certain times, also my relationships, finances, and my faith.
Yes, it’s a longer story. You can find it on my earlier podcasts and the links to the Global Leadership Summit (Part 1 and Part 2) story about my journey. Beware, it’s ugly! It was ugly for a long time. I’ve been running from God for over 15 years.
However, the fall and destruction followed. Maybe God is causing part of your destruction, to get your attention. Maybe that health scare was for your benefit. Maybe your summer clothes that don’t fit are a warning. God uses circumstances we understand to communicate His message, loud and clear.
God slowly stripped me of all my external validation. All the “things” I had created and accumulated that defined “who I was” were slowly dismantled. Until, HE was the only “thing” I could see and the only thing left for me to grab.
Resistance cannot live in the presence of Jesus. I was humbled. I got to the place where I had no choice but to look at the price Jesus paid for me. I was reminded that I get to have a relationship with the God who kept chasing after me. And the benefits of that life over the me, me, me and more of me. When I was “all about me”, so was He! He was after the me He created, not the one I created.
Ultimately, I was overcome by gratitude. It’s so much easier to follow from a place of gratitude and love, than that of duty, obligation, fear or shame.
It’s a journey understanding God’s unconditional love for me, my value and self esteem. I’ll be walking you through all of that in upcoming podcasts…However, how are you going to respond to His relentless pursuit of YOU?
You can keep slogging through life or you can create a new one? How are you going to respond? Is your current response serving you? Are you going to keep running? Or are you going to allow God into your heart and life in a new way. Romans 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. God loves you!