I am going
INSANE,
because I keep
EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS
DOING THE SAME THING.
But maybe I am not going
INSANE,
because I am doing what
GOD is asking me to do,
and just because
things aren't working out the way I want them to work out,
they are working out exactly how GOD wants them to work out.
So when I am
DOING what GOD asks me to do,
am I TRUSTING in GOD
or
TRUSTING in the actions of others?
Hmm.
An opening of the eyes of my heart moment.
Therefore,
I will keep doing what HE asks,
and leave the results and timing to HIM,
because GOD KNOWS me way better than I know myself.
So when HE asks me to
"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, as GOD in CHRIST forgave you"
(Ephesians 4:32) ,
then I am to
BE KIND
and
BE TENDERHEARTED
and
FORGIVING
one another,
just because GOD FORGIVES ME IN CHRIST.
Hmm.
And oh how it is hard to do,
when you keep doing it over and over again,
yet
you are not being
treated with
KINDNESS
and
TENDERHEARTEDNESS
and
FORGIVENESS.
But we are to
DO IT ANYWAY!
To keep PRESSING FORWARD,
when you want to go BACKWARDS.
To keep TURNING the other CHEEK,
when you want to respond with not so KIND words.
To keep FORGIVING
the same offense,
over and over and over again.
And why?
Look at JESUS
who wasn't treated with
KINDNESS
by those who did not have a TENDER HEART,
yet HE FORGAVE them anyway,
And why?
Look at JESUS
who I didn't treat with KINDNESS,
when I didn't have a TENDER HEART,
yet HE FORGAVE me anyway
on that bloody day on the cross,
way before I was even born.
Did I know I wasn't treating HIM with KINDNESS?
No, because it wasn't like I was screaming and yelling at HIM.
I just ignored HIM, as I left HIM at church,
Did I not have a TENDER HEART towards HIM?
Maybe so, as HE KNOCKED on my HEART,
yet I wasn't still enough to open the door.
But now I KNOW HIM.
And now I KNOW what HE had to experience,
and HE is
ALWAYS KIND towards ALL
and
ALWAYS TENDERHEARTED towards ALL
and
ALWAYS FORGIVING to ALL.
Hmm.
Therefore,
I am not going INSANE,
as I am not riding the
INSANITY train
when I am doing what GOD asks me to do,
because I am
laying all my expectations that I place on others to
respond to me the way I want them to respond me,
at the foot of the cross
because that is what GOD has asked
us all to do~
"casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns,
once and for all] on HIM, for HE cares about
you [with deepest affection, and watches
over you very carefully]"
(I Peter 5:7 AMP).
Oh the sweet spot of surrender
to
LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
and
"COME TO THE WELL"
(listen to the song below)
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