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Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021
(Biblegateway.com) Bible
Verse of the Day
37 Jesus
replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest
commandment. 39 And the second is like it:
‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)
God only knows for King & Country, Dolly Parton
Only Love @Jordan Feliz
Everything @Lauren Daigle
Rest For Your Soul @Austin French
Battle Belongs @Phil Whickham
Lean On Me @Kirk Franklin
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my
perspectives or feelings)
WOW
Don’t just love the
people who are easy to love; go love the difficult ones. Reading one of my devotionals today from Bob
Goff from Everybody Always I am reminded how powerful our actions can or cannot
be. Loving the prays “Don’t put a toe
in the water with your love; grab your knees and do a cannonball.” @Bob Goff @Everybody
Always
Here is a portion
exerted from the bible.com and one of
the many ways to just keep growing forward in motivation, in spirit, in peace
and in finding and learning who Jesus really is to us, for us and with us. If we allow him in.
“Obeying Jesus when it comes to loving
difficult people is hard. I’m still working on it. I’m sure it will take the
rest of my life. The heavy lifting is worth it, though. Difficulties and
setbacks will give us the chance to go back or lean forward. I’m convinced
heaven is watching us, knowing full well all that will be left standing in the
end is our love. I bet our spouses, kids, and friends are watching too. If you want to become love, stop just
agreeing with Jesus. Go call someone right now. Lift them up in ways they can’t
lift themselves. Send them a text message and say you’re sorry. I know they
don’t deserve it. You didn’t either. Don’t put a toe in the water with your
love; grab your knees and do a cannonball. Move from the bleachers to the
field, and you won’t ever be the same.”
I get it! Not everyone wants to constantly hear about
Jesus, being happy, feeling good, growing forward. Actually, there are some out there that have
crawled so far back in a corner trying to disappear from the life they have at
hand. In some cases, rightfully so. Hiding the best way, they can from the pain
of abuse, be it verbal, physical, or emotional. Health needs, starving and alone. Not having anything or anyone to help them up
out of the shark infested waters of life.
Giving everything
of themselves and then sometimes everything they have to that one special wanna
be connection forever. That soul connection,
right? Why else could you have come together,
and everything is working even if it’s a little rough at times, because we justify,
we just got to teach each other. Then
that one day we find our physical, our emotional and most of all our trust bank
accounts have been drained and beyond in the red.
That one we married
neglected to tell you up front it was not going to be just you and them. Although you will build some really awesome
feeling moments that last forever. Until
that day you find out there has always been someone else getting the same flavor
of what was supposed to be yours. Just a
different time but it all hurts the same.
What about that
which we trusted and are proved to no be worthy in that other supposed friend
or significant other to even have the respect to be honest and up front. Releasing what they do not really want. But instead, openly treating you who have
given what you thought to be everything to them with such disrespect and distasteful
actions. Yet wanting you to shut up and
take it because they don’t want to let you go.
People are people all
day long. What works one moment for one
area of life some how changes for that same soul and becomes something
different for someone or somewhere else.
When people let us
down, its really because we have put expectations on them to be that everything
that perfection and sometimes, they are just acting out on the triggers that
have somehow loaded up something in them to not know, not care, who knows but
only Jesus.
What about that
unfair thing that we put all we are into?
Perhaps that job, that business, that creative masterpiece and somehow someway its now all gone. A storm came, change came, a pandemic came. That something that no one ever plans for.
What about that diagnosis? What about never smoking, never doing drugs,
never putting anything bad into our vessels yet we suddenly are laid out on a
hospital gurney getting tests and not sure what will be, or we are, the doctors
say we have limited time.
Life is so unfair. All that could happen if we planned and
thought about it all the time and lived in a bubble would be like looking down
the end of a loaded barrel in a game of Russian roulette. Your life would be over because you are
paralyzed and the only thing you know is what happens if this is the loaded
chamber or the bubble that we hide in bursts exposing us to a contaminated
world that soon has us sucked up into the vortex of anger, hate, bleeding out
and afraid to breathe.
Yet, for the glory
of the God the creator of all things who
wants us to live. We forget His promise
of eternal peace, comfort and love that will never fully be deserved awaits His
son Jesus Christ waiting to meet us, to show us our worth, to show us how to
walk through the valley of the worldly lava flowing openly in a world so
vast. He is our only life jacket, our
breath daily, minute by minute.
Thirty years ago, I
would have never believed so. I knew God
so I thought. Went to church every
holiday. Sometimes even during the week
when I lived close enough to one.
You know I was not
always aware who Jesus always was. Confess
your sins to a man behind a curtain go pray your hail Mary’s and don’t do it
again. All the while they were hiding
behind their own curtains of using children for their own pleasures or getting
drunk at the latest neighborhood wedding.
Yet when you do all the classes and seek them to be your priest for your
wedding or to Christian your children, they find fault in you and refuse. Humanity
has always been messed up in thinking their thoughts or my thoughts for that
matter are what is right. WE ALL have
a perspective, dreams, and beliefs.
We all get to
choose what we allow to overtake our minds, our spirit with us without Jesus
living with us. Being a good human and
trying to stand up for anything right or nothing at all. The choices have been given to us. WE ALL have been blessed with freedom of
will, freedom of choice.
We all get to
choose what we label our own bad choices and behaviors with excuses or quantify
it addictions and/or reasons.
Yes, it is true,
when we allow our state to be altered by drugs and alcohol, we are not who we
were made to be. We become that bold person
to do whatever, whoever to or with anyone that is playing in the same sandbox
with us. Using and abusing ourselves
or those we managed to get our hands on.
Deep thoughts flowing
out, mine even yours reading through.
Truth is God only knows what and why we do what we do, and it is with
and through Him alone that releases us into what will never be perfect but will
be with perfect peace. To find him
and know him we must come to know and walk with Jesus Christ.
The same God that
holds this universe who breathed life and created humanity. The same one who gave his only son as a sacrifice
to allow us the choice to live in peace, light and be our best doing our best
in the light. Or choosing to be the
darkness and reap what we sow either way.
The same God that allows birds to fly, bold colors of flowers to bloom, oceans,
and waves to dance, is everything to me.
The same God whose
story is in a book that has been published and sold more than any other book
ever in the universe and allows us to know him personally through his son Jesus
Christ and the teachings of those who honestly believe, learn, and grow forward
to Him, with Him. Who love beyond anything
we could ever fully understand?
We all get to
choose. I really do not know why I come out
and let it flow out other than I would be a fool to withhold the blessings I
still am able to feel each day I get up.
By not sharing.
I used to want to
be a motivational speaker at one point in my life. I used to want to share all the bad things in
my life and make sure no young adult did not see a clear picture of their
choices. Always thinking maybe, I could
save someone from the pains or prevent a lifetime of stuff that does not need
to be.
Over time and its
all part of growing up people are going to be, going to do going anything they
feel like it no matter what they know or do not know. Just because we know right from wrong it
will not matter once we allow ourselves in a mindset and we just do.
That mindset
sometimes is selfish and harmful, and we just do not care what anyone else thinks. Sometimes that mindset is filled with hurt
and anger from something that has occurred.
Others we just want no part of if and others we just try to be better or
do all that we think is good and sometimes that good sets us up for our own
drama, failures just as it also can lead to success and what we feel is
achievements.
I guess the main
thing I have learned.
Is what I am doing
necessary?
Is it True?
Is it Kind?
Do we really have a
reason why we need to make others feel good, or on the dark side of that; pay
for something they have no clue is going to cost them?
One word, one
action can make or take a life!
I personally hope
and sometimes pray that every single connection I have is doing their absolute
best to be a light, be that little glimmer of hope in an oh so darkened world.
For me I choose to
give all that I know I fall short in, with and for to the one that created all
things. I lean on Jesus. Yes, before I came to know him I leaned on my
own understanding and what everyone else had answers for. The peace I have now knowing Jesus is my
filter, my protector, my healer, my very breath, my teacher. He
lays me down in green pastures next to still waters; He reveals all things
through lessons, messages, and messengers.
Through song and music. I am far
from perfect and hardly ever get it right.
My goal to want to help, to want love to be love to even be that
everything if I talk about my human desires and thoughts at time. To avoid conflict over all that is temporal
and just see a healing of life, laughter, and true love to shine and reflect
growth.
I am finding my way
with Him at the wheel. What works for
me may not work for you. It may actually
tick you off I talk about it so much.
It is what it is, and I am blessed. Each day things work out, or I pick myself
back up. I am blessed.
This is what I
choose and the pieces I share out, prayerfully and truly are shards of light
that give you the energy, the hope, the desire to want something lasting, something
better. If so; dive in lean on
Jesus.
Start feeding your
spirit, resting your soul and know you are everything to the creator of all
things and all He wants is you to know everything with, for, and through Jesus
his one and only son.
Have a blessed day
or evening. No matter who you are, you
are not what you do. Rest well in Him!
Meditation Opportunities
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Matthew 11:28
NKJV “Come to Me, all you who labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
1 Thessalonians In everything give thanks; for
this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
