Life is Big

The Lord blessed me with a great faith in His Resurrection.  He IS the Resurrection and the Life!  I went to a funeral once where they did not say that – it was Jewish – and oh the difference it made!  As a Christian I just always took those words for granted in the mourning – but there is a God who is bigger than this life and He has a dwelling place!

Death is Satan’s glory.  All forms of it, leading up to it, the whole design there is to make you not believe in God.  Sometimes it’s pretty effective.  But even faith is greater and this world was not meant for our total control.   We couldn’t do anything like it if we tried!  It’s amazing that we get the powers that we do, as much as we mess things up.

But while we have plenty of reasons to worry in our limitations, God is not worried at all!  We get to choose Life.  Choosing Life is bigger than walking down an aisle of some church building.  It’s bigger than singing in the choir or even preaching.  Life is Big.

Choosing life is bigger than a bunch of rules.  And it’s bigger than doing your own thing!  There is a Spirit to choosing Life.  I know a lot of so called Christians who carry a lot of death in them.  I know some who are very indifferent to God’s Plan for man.

Even Proverbs says that a good man cares for his animals.  A good man knows right from wrong.  He cares about the land.  A good man who knows God knows how to hear from God and make his voice heard.  Some of the most humble expressions is incredibly powerful in God.

A good man knows how to cooperate with God in His Plan.  A good man values others.  He can prefer others without losing himself in the mix.  There is so much bad doctrine today on losing yourself and dying to the flesh and not having any rights of your own.  It never causes you to find Life!  It’s satanic because it wipes you out, as if you weren’t in the Plan.  It devalues the work done on the Cross.  There is a way to do that that lives Life but many can’t see it.

If Jesus died to save sinners and such a one was me, then there was a reason.   Another great evil is those who think they are above others.  They feel they are “the chosen” and have been elected to speak into everyone else’s life as the sovereign Voice of God.  They make all of us sick!  They got a little enlightenment and it is exposing their pride.

 When you worry about others more than you worry about your own relationship with God, there is a problem.  We all have “our things” that we have to work out in this life, but Life is Big.  And you are either with God’s program for good, or you aren’t.  It’s not about your intellect.  That is a tool for your spirit. 

When you want to destroy other people for selfish ambition, when you want to limit other people for selfish gain, there is a problem.  And when you let other people demean you and defile you and limit your walk with others and God – who is Life – there is a problem!!!

Life is good.  Death is bad.  But one of my favorite verses out of the Living Bible in Job says:  “Could God govern if He hated justice?”  Life will rule!  And apparently from the Bible I read, He will eliminate people who eliminate Life.  Or He will take them on to a better place.  He can do that and He does.

Now I hope you don’t think this means I am a plant worshipper.  But if you understand the eco-system, which I believe even goes into the heavens, there is a Plan going on that supports Life.  When I consider it all, I need a God!!!

Since I have a brain and somewhat of an education, and a body that still can move around somewhat, and some life tools, I can still make a difference, just as you who are reading this can.  I am not going to be willingly put in a box that offers no reward of the bigger Life of God.   Many have wanted to parent me, but only because it makes “them” feel more comfortable.  They just wanted to channel my energy.

When some folks really insisit, I let them do it for a season (within reason) just to see if they offer something more.  To date, they haven’t.  Part of that is because they don’t see what God put in me.  They see the places where I willingly hold back and they think I am weak.   When I speak to them of Life things, they don’t understand.  His sheep hear His Voice, right?  And another they will not follow.  I have invested in wrong things but I got something out of the investing because of the spirit behind it.

People do respond to God different ways and I am not trying to tell anyone else how to do that.  It’s a choice.  Christians are charged with giving the good news, but as the expression goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink!”

Jesus said there are some who KNOW what they do and it isn’t Him.  Many today feel the freedom to game play with the things of God.  Our society has become very lax and history does not record pleasant things for those who do that.  But only God can give the wake up call.

Will the real Jesus please stand up?  I believe He will.  And it will be a soul stirring work, but I really believe He is tearing down the current structure – and it’s messy! – to establish the true.  Just like revamping an old house, a lot of basic things need to be gutted and replaced but the foundation of the Plan still holds.  We are the parts, and if found worthy, we will be placed back into the building when it’s redone.  The rejoicing will be great when our “parts” work!

Right now, we can’t make them “work.”  Sometimes we are put to the side until it’s time to re-enter the Plan in ways where things will function effectively.  Life is big and the more you see that, the more you can find your functionality.  There is a pile of stuff that is going to be burned.  Like rotten food in the refrigerator that once was good, it’s going to be thrown out.  Your spirit man must grow.  If it doesn’t, then you have limitations.

Life is big.  Fly high.  Enjoy it in the true and Living (!) God.  I am!