You're Worthy

Someone once said, I’m paraphrasing, that “we embrace the love that we think we deserve.”

I know that what I’m writing will come across as “platitude-y and preachy” but I want you to read this thoroughly and work with the pieces that apply to you; “eating the meat and throwing away the bones” so to speak.

In this age of “instants”, quick, fast and hurries we are systematically programed to miss signals and cues allowing our brains to bridge these gaps. You know, like the memes with numbers and letters that ego stroke and tout your intelligence by allowing to think that you’re part of an elite group because your brain can decipher the obvious message….. I know, I know you’re asking what’s my point? My point is that we do the EXACT same thing with love. Yeah, I said it, we get all caught up in our romantic, greeting card, tv show notions of it and then we are woefully disappointed because we’ve shared our “essence” with someone who didn’t know how to love, had no reverence for love and just wanted THEIR needs met. We role play repeating this pattern for so long that we tend to forget that we are ROYAL and DESERVING. In other words, we have grown accustomed to living beneath our privilege and thereby reject love because it does not reflect what we have grown accustomed to.

Like in the parable of the Prodigal’s Son in Luke 15: 11-32 we spend an exorbitant amount of time in riotous living and when all is said and done, we have a moment of clarity where we come to the realization that what looked like a good time was, in reality, wallowing with pigs. Reflecting on this repeated patterns of behaviors bring me around to Romans 8: 26  (but read ALL of Romans 8) where the scripture tells us that we pray not as we ought…..Now, with that, here’s the big finish, here’s the bow on the gift; stop telling God how to do His business. If you could have fixed the problem you wouldn’t be reading this….we have got to break the habit of telling GOD ß read that again, what our blessings should look like…praying the Lord’s prayer with the slight change “thy kingdom come MY will be done” Keeping it 100, you had the shot at implementing YOUR will.

I’m thinking of a scene from the movie Titanic, a door was a lifeboat for Rose….will you lose your life (love) because YOU need to see a ship? I’m sure you have had plenty of opportunities for love because God is STILL in the blessing business but you’ve avoided or missed your blessing because you have been looking for your familiar…

Question: Does your Exodus end with you returning to slavery or are you going to look to God for a new thing?