I had a weekend long date with my best. The Lord and I had a few days of solitude and seclusion out in a cabin on a Texas lake. Intimate right? Headed out there I had all these expectations of reading chapter after chapter, and writing all sorts of songs… dancing and praying. Well, some of this did happen, but what I was not expecting was to be stuck in deep on one verse. I honestly started reading James, got to the end of chapter uno and could NOT move past this verse. I meditated on it, I read out loud, I sang about it… I re-re-re-read this thang. I’m hooked and I believe this one will stick with me forever. This passage is my watering-hole. A place where I can turn to when I need the Lord to speak. A passage I know I can read and will find once again, my purpose and identity. This is what I crave, to have an undefiled life not stained by the world. Let me make that a little more clear.
An undefiled life not stained by the world.
We’ve been given the Holy Spirit as a teacher, a guide, a helper to understand the Kingdom principles, to lead us into revelation. We have been given the Word of the Lord. The truth is written. We must BECOME Re-Presenters of Christ. A REPRESENTATIVE of Him. We were made in the image of God. We were MADE in the very IMAGE of God. We physically represent Him. Ok getting off task but that’s a deep point as well. May all other teachers, meaningless traditions and empty religion be cut out of us. CHURCH. BRIDE. That’s us. All things learned from a defiled gospel must be removed. May we learn to LIVE a life of this liberty and truth from the Spirit in us and the Spirit in the rest of the Body.
Actions, beliefs, dreams, hopes, words, relationships, sermons, teachings, WILL be pure and undefiled. Never to be stained or disturbed by this world. But to be completely formed, as a foundation, on the truth of the Kingdom. This is my cry for the Church, for the beautiful Bride. What would we be if this were so? How different we would seem. How powerful we would be. How lovely we would be to each other.
Why did Jesus seem so “out there�, “different�,�wrong?� Why did so many people look at Him differently? Was it because the gospel they had believed was not the gospel of Truth? Was it because their beliefs had been disturbed and functioned in order to “fit� the comfort of man-kind? I believe so.
So my heart-cry, my innermost prayer for us is this: To release from our grips the unfulfilling religion of our pasts, the stuff that has become to allow us to feel safe and secure instead of risky and powerful. May we all be on a life-long journey to learn, believe, live, and release the PURE- UNSTAINED -Truth of the Kingdom. May we live and proclaim in ALL truth, the Kingdom of our God Almighty.
PEACE BABES
