It has taken me much time to come to this path and to embrace the wisdom of Ecclesiastes. There is a time for everything and everything under the sun has its time. I have participated and only known cultures that push upon the natural order and boundaries of things as to have their desires accomplished in a some what more harried fashion.
If something takes 10 years then every moment of those 10 years serve in whatever is being incubated.
I haven't liked that...
We, as the Western church expression of Christian culture have no liked nor embraced that reality to its fullest. In not reaching for depth of understanding into this reality and circumventing process, in not reaching for understanding or appreciating this reality I wonder about how many abortions or miscarriages of the works of our Lord upon the earth and the people we have participated within. I have participated in.
I hear about this and that person falling away from faith and yet when I hear their stories or read their accounts, it is not God they are rejecting.. it is culture and religion. I hunger to learn the immense difference in expression and have Christ made manifest within me in a reality that really represents Him.
Four days away from having said and given a "yes," to the Lord for 100 days... expanding it to a year... and to a lifetime...
The lessons being learned and the interior transformation are beyond my wildest imagination.
It has taken time and the passage of time, and letting each season come and go and come and depart... upon the waves I am being brought out into the depths and I will never be the same...
It started with trusting Holy Spirit when upon being asked to do that which is His calling, lead us into all truth, He comes and does it well.. does it very well...
May love encompass you and saturate your very being..
May you know you are loved
And may you learn to rest in that love...
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