DO I WANT FREEDOM?
This past month in Costa Rica has been very liberating. We work for this ministry in Jaco, CR and that involves anything from building a park and painting murals, to running around with sweaty kids for 3 hours. This month so far it has been simple. The gospel has been simple.
Too simple.
I think internally I like to complicate the gospel. We all do. We add or take away depending on what we think is fit. We wait for the right moments, we doubt when Holy Spirit speaks to us, and we run from Yahweh’s open arms. The way that the Lord loves me is simple, but why do I have to make it complicated? He has freedom for me, but simple obedience follows that. Do I really want healing? Do I really want freedom?
Great freedom comes with great responsibility.
Once the Father gives you a new name, it is time to act out of that identity. I can’t want freedom and live like a slave. I can’t want healing, and keep acting like a victim to my circumstances. Jesus when He was on earth He made it sound too simple, too simple that even some people didn’t believe it. He found a man who had been waiting a long time for healing and He said, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
So this sounds super simple, but I am going to try to explain a little bit of what the Lord is telling me in these verses..
GET UP: this requires a posture. A posture open to change. It is an action that I have to take in order for Him to work in my life. I have to decide that I want that, He wont force healing or freedom on us.
PICK UP YOUR MAT: healing requires dealing with messy stuff. It means looking at whats broken, giving it to the Father, and then the hardest part.. not being a victim to it. We need to know our true identity and receive that grace that has been given to us.
AND WALK: now we have a new name! We are new creatures therefor we cannot act like the way that we used to. We are not of this earth, there for we need to walk like heavenly beings because that is who we really are.
Again I ask myself, do I really want freedom from my sins and habits.. do I really want healing from past hurt? If I do, I better put some good walking shoes on.
