The Lord has a way with me. He takes me down different paths on my journey. He walks with me. He talks with me. He shows me things about his character and his heart. He shows me things about myself and about his Bride. He captures my heart with just one look, and his love for me stirs up a love in me that I didn’t know could be real. He speaks tenderly to me and tells me great and unsearchable things that I did not know. He dances with me. He sweeps me off my feet again and again.
The last month or so has been full of the Lord doing all of these sorts of things. And just the other day a lot of dots were connected in my spirit. I would say that an overall consensus of what God has been walking me into is eternity. Once again, revealing the mysteries of eternity. The value in eternity. What really matters from the perspective of eternity? What is it that I am doing now on this earth that will have an impact for the rest of time? It definitely makes you think.
I’m starting to take the Word of the Lord more seriously. I am starting to read what Jesus said to his disciples as what he is saying directly to me. And I’m afraid that for too long, I have read the words of Jesus and the scriptures thinking that they are words for someone else who is actually called to that specific lifestyle. Like, not everyone has to sell all they own and give it to the poor because that was just for that one rich guy who asked Jesus what he must to do to inherit eternal life. Surely Jesus doesn’t want me to give everything I own away.
But wait, aren’t I following Jesus? Like following his life and his resurrection?
…Oh, and his death? As the Lord is leading me through these scriptures, I am wondering….is it too radical? Is it too radical to take Jesus seriously? Or is it just too comfortable and easy to tell myself he was talking to someone else? Well, I have decided to be radical…if that’s what it means to take Jesus at his word. I have chosen to actually live as he lived and actually live by every spoken word that comes from the mouth of God. I am not always going to do it perfectly but I have a determination, a fire in me to do all that I can in my power to live for eternity…to walk by the faith inside of me instead of by what I can see with my eyes.
And so the Lord has given me a verse to live by. It is a scripture that I have loved for a long time and yesterday it came to me again. As I read it, I felt the resolve to truly and sincerely live as if this were true…because it is. And because for me, it is the perfect picture of living from eternity.
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:22-34
