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Get Honest And Get Free!

At first thought, I would love to tell you I am a perfect person. A person that always thinks good thoughts and always does the right thing. A person who has no enemies, commits no sins and gets it right, no matter the situation or circumstance. At first thought, I think this is what I would love to be able to tell you, but then after I think about it for a few minutes, I realize that would not be me at all.

While it is very true that I am not my mistakes, sins and failures, the reality is, they are a part of me, the part of me that is human. They are the part of my human experience, which is teaching me that I am a spiritual being getting to have a human experience. And while I am not proud of these things, the Spirit has taught me that God has used and is using all of these things to help shape me into who and what He created me to be. It is all part of His process!

The world we live in is a beautiful, mystical and amazing place, but it also a hard, ugly and mean place at the same time. It is in this place that there is a continual battle that wages, a battle we get caught up in and often distracted by.

Oh, we like to pretend that it doesn’t exist and we tend to ignore the obvious, but that does not change the reality that all of us are sinners that miss the mark, and we really do need to own that. A big part of accepting what God has done for us through Jesus is admitting the truth that we are sinners who miss the mark and don’t measure up.

“For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you. please.” -Galatians 5:17

Part of our saying that we BELIEVE is acknowledging our sinfulness, accepting it’s consequences and admitting that in our on limited human strength and power, we can do nothing to save ourselves and live the life we were created for. We don’t need to dwell on this part of our life and living, but we do need to be honest and real about it, because that is a vital part of our being able to allow Spirit to do His work in and through us.

Yes, we have messed up and we will mess up, but God loves us and has a plan to use it all for His glory and our blessing as we trust in Him. So own your stuff, admit and learn from your sins, mistakes and failures. Learn to yield to the SPIRIT and you will overcome the desires of the flesh that attempt to pull you off track and out of the will of God’s blessing.

It’s not easy, but it is possible and it’s the relationship you were created for…

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Learn Your Lesson!

Have you heard the quote: ”Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”? From the best I can tell, this quote most likely comes from the writer and philosopher George Santayana, and in it’s original form he said: ”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he studied under the philosophers William James and Josiah Royce. He later became a professor in philosophy at Harvard.

Santayana’s philosophy, in a nutshell teaches that ”History repeats itself!” Ancient philosophy teaches that life is a spiral that presents us with lessons and when we fail to learn the lesson life presents, then life has a way of bringing the lesson back around again and again, until we do get it. It may be in the same form or in a totally different form, but its purpose is always the same, it is to instruct, grow and develop us into all we are created for.

”What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” -Ecclesiates 1:9

When things in life are not working, then there is something for us to learn. Failure to learn has consequences and will cost us something. When something is not working in our life, then we need to take this as an indication that there are parts of our mind, body and spirit that need integration.

This requires that we take on our ego, because we are so much more than what we have, what we do or who people think we are. If we are paying attention then this life is trying to teach us something. When we get what it’s teaching us, then we are heading to an amazing place.

What is this life trying to teach you? How are you going to learn from your mistakes? When will you start making decisions to integrate your life? Where are you heading with your decision or indecision? Why are you waiting? Seize the now, learn your lesson and grow your life! You will be glad you did…

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Something Greater Is On The Way!

You Were Created For More Than This! There is a longing inside of each of us for something more than what we know or have. Given enough time, heart ache and let downs and we slowly learn to train ourselves to live the jaded life of low expectation, but still every now and then, the winter turns to spring and reacquaints us to the possibilities that have long slept dormant, somewhere deep inside of us. And we can’t help but to dream again…

What Am I? I am a soul, living as spirit in this body of flesh with a fully engaged mind, which offers me the human experience of learning and growth. And with all that is goin on between soul, spirit, body and mind there is still a yearning for something more. Something from some where keeps whispering: “You were created for more than this!” Just as the grass grows toward the sky, as water flows to it’s lowest point and as flowers follow the sun, I too, seek Spirit as my source.

Always Searching! This seeking of Spirit as my source, manifests itself in a sort of restlessness that has me jumping from one thought to the next in search of the something deeper and more meaningful that I know must exist. I have searched high and low, in relationships, the earning of money, titles and degrees, the accumulation of possessions such as material goods, houses, land, clothes and cars, only to find that the ego always lets me down and leaves me with more of a hungry feeling than when I began.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.” -John 14:12

Created For Greatness! I know in my core that I was created for greatness and that my greatness comes about it my being and doing what I was created for. The temptation is to always be distracted by the lesser, the more obtainable, the worldly, but I was created for greater challenges that are not of this world. I am not in this struggle alone, my Creator is with me and has given me help in the form of spirit, which many call angels, which come in all shapes and sizes, and from all directions in this life.

Live And Learn! As I learn to open my heart, mind and spirit to this supernatural help from on high, I discover and tap into the greatness and my body becomes stronger, my mind more filled with wisdom and my spirit more yielded to the guidance and strength that flows from the secret place of the most high and I take steps to become the person I long to be, so that I can do the amazing things I was created and gifted to do, so that I might glorify my Creator and bless my brothers and sisters, as I honor the imprint on my soul of the Almighty, by chasing after the yearning of my soul as I follow the path planned out for me since before I was ever born…