Disheartened

Today afternoon was one of the really good ones this year. Sharing and spending time with friends who are dear to me. However as the little meeting ended a certain topic arose. The topic on certain people being over spiritual and how such people can be uncomfortable to be with. I asked what that meant, to be over spiritual and if such a term really had meaning. To be to Godly? To involve God in all things and all conversations to sneeze God, to breathe God? Inquiring further i got a description, "I would not want to be around people who are always saying I am good in the Lord and stuff like that", but why? At the time I got confused and tried to agree with the conversation but as I got home I thought about it and it crushed me. 

Christianity has been painted a certain way lately; uncool, boring, weird, extreme, radical etc. These are the kind of terms we should be proud of. The bible says we are aliens of the world, we do not belong to it and we should not love the things of the world although we are in it. What is really horrible is that fellow Christians are not proud to be "very spiritual", it does not always have to be about God , is what people think and believe. Why is this! Do you know it is always about you when it comes to God. God is seated in Heaven doing all He can to show His love grace and mercy the word of God even says in Ephesians 1.4  "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[b] predestined us for adoption to son-ship[c] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves". God chose us before He even created us, He thought about us before we came into being so why should we set Him aside even for a minute, why should we forget about Him, why should we lay Him aside for particular times, why? Why should He seat there and think about us but we forget about Him for a second. He is our hope our love, our fiber, the giver of life, the creator of all things. Colossians says that everything was made for Him, through Him and by Him. He is in all, The book also says that Christ is all. I am not calling us to be crazy fanatics no! Do not try to be anything just let Christ control you. Let yourself die and let Him live in you, you must decrease and He must increase, John 3.30. Do not forget God , do not, He is the only reason you can do anything , Acts 17.28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Are we also forgetting God's command to love God with all our mind, heart and soul. That is the whole element of our being. We are called to love God not just to love Him but to cherish Him. Read the book of Psalms, it was written by those who had fallen in-love with Jesus, we are to love God and write Psalms to Him because of how much we love Him. God says in Joshua 1.8 Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. Let us fall in-love with Jesus. He delights in you, He is jealous for you, He died for you, He is your only Saviour, do not for one minute forget about Him. He is all, He is in all. Love God with every breath you take, desire Him like a deer that pants for water. Grow madly in-love with Him, He is madly in-love with you. God has the whole universe to think about, but He thinks about you, He knows about you, you only have your life to live and you dare forget Him. Do not, let Him overflow your heart. 

We love because He first loved us.

Love always, Hilda.

PS

Proverbs 3.5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 1.28-31 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.