Some thoughts....

I'm sitting here with some time to kill, so I figured I'd do some blogging. I stopped off at a friend's site, and was quite inspired by a post that I'd already read; so, being the blabbing typer that I am, I Commented again (here's the post - http://jillystuff.blogspot.com/2005/01/black-and-white.html#comments - be inspired, too!).

How often are the Ways of God so contrary to what we think they should be? I mean, so often we think we've got it all figured out, when really we're just as confused as the next person - maybe even moreso! Oh, how I wish I could perceive the Spiritual reality - Eternity. We're so trapped by the limitations of Time - at least our perception of Time, anyway.
If only we could truly grasp how God sees everything. He knows the beginning from the end, or is it the other way around?? It's probably both. I think that's why True Wisdom & Maturity is total dependence on God. Only He knows what's best - we're most often left in a guessing game.

I'm inspired to seek the Lord's Way more often after what transpired a couple of days ago when I asked Him about my friend's pregnancy. I mean, all I had to do was ask in faith. And, even though I didn't have much faith in my faith (how ironic!), and had to ask several times and in different ways, He just responded - every time I asked!
But, how can you be sure you're hearing His Voice when you ask? Well, He said to Jeremiah, a few thousand years ago, that He'd write His Word on our hearts; plus, there is about 4,000 years (more, if you want to say Creation was written when the world was created!) worth of Him recorded in the Bible. In all the time of the world, He has never changed! But, I do believe that it is most important to listen to that Still, Small Voice that He whispers in our hearts. If we just go with Scripture, we tend to put Him in the box of our minds, which is infinitely too limited for God! My heart quite often convicts me of this limitation every time I listen to academics, or try to academize Scripture myself.

However, living from our hearts is scary. It's so counter-cultural. We live in such an intelectual world, that anything that cannot be seen in a concrete fashion is just not 'true'. Our society trumpets individualism - we only approach wisdom and maturity as we become more and more individual.
But, if we listen to our heart, it tells us exactly the opposite! Our heart screams, "The Truth is outside the box of intelectualism!" And shouts, "Depend on God, be interdependent with everyone! We're all One with God!"
It sounds so odd, that we shut it down. We stifle that Voice within, and try to fit in - oh, the irony that 'fitting in' means being more alone!
We're all different - and that's a good thing. Actually, that's the only way that we're all the same! Of course, we're all worth the same - each person's life is of equal value. But, each and every one of us has a very unique and completely different contribution to make to Life; and, we have to Be, in order to help society move forward - to draw closer to the Lord. If we do what everyone else is doing, we stop the growth of humanity - Life becomes stagnant. And, if we stop to listen to that Voice in our hearts, we'll very soon realize that it's in our differences that We are Truly strong. As we work as One - because our differences actually compliment each other - we create a synergy that moves us closer to Eternity. I once heard it said that any time a person lives completely from their heart - even if just for a second - they effect the world for Eternity.

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Wow... That was some deep stuff. I pray that it's a blessing to everyone. May the eyes & ears of our hearts be Opened!