How much does feeling count? Especially when knowing is available, and when knowing contradicts feeling?
Just asking that question made feeling quieter.
I had gotten to leaning on feeling, depending on it as a reference. In that case, even physical pain is a strong thing and can become an anchoring place.
The only problem is that any feeling is a false anchor. Relying on feeling when there is nothing else seems so right. Relying on feeling when there is so much more is an entirely different thing.
Knowing God, even just a little bit, takes away the supreme position of feeling. The soul can no longer dominate. At that moment, the true head of the man, his own spirit, is quickened and steps back up to headship. I can choose to give over to my soul, but I do not ever have to again.
I am made alive again my the Spirit of God. My spirit is quickened, reborn, within me. I arise again to purpose and passion. Spirit alive makes body alive less relevant. Old habits die hard, but loosed is better than bound. Ain't no body gonna hold my spirit down. I will arise and go to my Father.
Father, the clear thing for me tonight is that the only way I am going to, or can, serve any purpose, establish any value, is through truly living. Know spirit, know living.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Knowing
Certainty. Knowing. Now I understand why people do not get it when we say we are in love with Jesus.
They have been in love. They have been lost in that brainless euphoria and still did not have certainty. Knowing was absent. Especially if they had been in love before. They know it is a drug that wears off. Great drug, though. Great drug. But just a drug.
I am not in love with Jesus. It is a poor, inaccurate way of expressing this Christian faith. Better, much better to say, that I am home in Christ. Every answer is in Him. Everything missing is found in this Life. Everything broken is restored in Christ. Everything that needs to be known to make me fully alive and free is right here and will never change. I know.
Father, You have done it. And we thank you. What a place to rest and heal.
They have been in love. They have been lost in that brainless euphoria and still did not have certainty. Knowing was absent. Especially if they had been in love before. They know it is a drug that wears off. Great drug, though. Great drug. But just a drug.
I am not in love with Jesus. It is a poor, inaccurate way of expressing this Christian faith. Better, much better to say, that I am home in Christ. Every answer is in Him. Everything missing is found in this Life. Everything broken is restored in Christ. Everything that needs to be known to make me fully alive and free is right here and will never change. I know.
Father, You have done it. And we thank you. What a place to rest and heal.
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