It is natural to want to know our place in this world. Wisdom teaches us that knowing our purpose is not really the most important thing. The important thing is know that we have purpose. We search for answers that really will not make much of a difference in our lives.
Look up at the sky. Now, look around you at the earth. Isn’t that profound? You did not get it? Do it again! Look up at the sky, really look. Now, look around you at the earth. Did you see it? You are a spiritual being, existing in a human body. You are on the earth and Heaven is above you. In reality, you are right now living between heaven and earth.
When we look at the sky, we should contemplate heaven. The sky is above us and we are below it, what does that tell you? The sky is endless, vast, right before you and way beyond you. The sky/heaven is not some abstract philosophical concept, it is a daily reality that is ever-present in our lives.
The clouds come and go, but Heaven is always there. It is the air we breath and so much more. It is home to the sun which warms us and gives us life. We cannot live without the heaven and the earth.
Our spirit is in great need. It’s contentment comes from the unlimited vastness of the Heavenly domain. Our spirit never runs out of a new place to roam and call home. Don’t allow your view of this world and our heavenly home to become too small, because if you do, then you might just miss a very important part of your journey…
Do you ever have something the Spirit is teaching you and you get it, but you just can’t seem to communicate it? It’s in your heart and in your head, but you just can’t seem to find the words?
The Lord has been teaching me something pretty incredible lately. It’s one of those things that I have known what the Bible has to say for a long time. I could even quote the verse and I may have even gotten the gist of it, but now God is taking me deeper and I still don’t totally have it, but I am beginning to get it after a lot of lessons.
We often work so hard to try to make something obvious in the physical and the harder we work, the more hard work we have to do. It’s almost as if it is a never-ending battle. But in the spiritual, you don’t have to make anything obvious, because the Spirit does all the hard work for you. In the Spirit, the obvious is obvious to those in the Spirit!
When you are working hard in the physical to try to make something obvious, you often can’t see and have no understanding of the spiritual, because you are so focused on the physical. You don’t want to see and don’t want to understand the spiritual, because it would reveal how wrong and what a waste of time and energy your life has been in the physical.
I know this is all a little complex, but I believe it is a big part of what the Spirit has been trying to teach me over the past several months and what the Spirit was talking about when He said in 1 Corinthians 2:14 “14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.”
Sometimes, I find myself trying to explain spiritual things to people and I think to myself, “this should be obvious to them”, but I am assuming they are spiritual, because they say they are spiritual, but if they are really as spiritual as they say they are, then I would not have to explain it, because the Spirit would and is making it clear and obvious. Many times in my own life, I have missed the spiritually obvious, because I was stuck in the physical.
So many of our conversations and discussions are a total waste of time and energy because we are wasting physical energy, while we should be living powerful spiritual lives or we are wasting spiritual energy on people who are stuck and not budging in the physical. Jesus said in Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
Now does this mean that we become so heavenly minded that we don’t do any earthly good? Of course not. We will do earthly/physical good, if we are heavenly/spiritual minded, because it just comes natural in a spiritual kinda way. Galatians 5:16 puts it simply: “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
I do not totally have all of this, but the Spirit is giving me new insight almost everyday and this is a very cool thing, because I have found that physically my arms and hands have come down by my side and I am experiencing a peace that words cannot explain, because I am finally beginning to understand what Jesus was saying when He told His disciples in Matthew 10:14 “Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.” It’s not your job to convince, but if you are convinced then you will find that living in the Spirit is so much better than anything physical!
I had a hard time getting online this morning! I kept getting an error message and nothing that I tried seemed to work in solving the problem, but I did not give up – I kept on trying. So many times as we try to live our lives, we will get thrown a curve ball and things will not work out the way that we planned. I am not talking about the easy stuff like trying to get online. I am talking about the tough stuff – like life just sometimes being rough and not working out the way we had hoped and planned!
Don’t Give Up! On a good day – life is hard, and on a hard day – life seems impossible! When times get like this, we are tempted to give in and give up, but don’t you dare do it! Keep after it! Here are some steps to make sure that you are doing the right thing!
First, make sure that you are in communication with God. Talk to God about your situation. He already knows all about it, but loves to hear it from your perspective. Sometimes, just taking the time to talk it over with Him will lead you to a moment of clarity that helps you to get everything headed in the right direction!
Second, check to make sure that you are not the cause of the problem. We always want to shift the blame, but ultimately – we all bear responsibility for ourselves. I am responsible for my actions and reactions to life! It is very easy for us to get out of God’s plan and focused on our very own and very limited agenda. Make sure that you are where God wants you to be and doing what God created you to do!
Third, enjoy the journey! Life here on this earth is way to short to not enjoy every moment of it. Don’t let anything or anybody rob you of the special experiences that God has for you in the failures and the victories!
I hope this encourages you today and helps you to get more out of this very special day that God has given you!
Michael Joe Harvell 