Monday, July 9, 2012

Honestly how I'm Feeling


7/9/2012
1 Corinthians 4:8- “Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have become kings- and that without us! How I wish that you really had become kings so that we might be kings with you!”

Interpretation: I have all I want. I think that I need a new shirt, or a watch. I’m excited to go home so I can have my own car, join a gym, and eventually have my own house and my own life and family. I have all I want. I think that I want to take new photos, go new places, and fill myself up with food and with drink, but I already have all I want. I miss my friends and my parents and I am excited to be with everyone again. I am excited to have a job again and make my own income, but, already I have become rich. With my eyes on the world and my heart on my self and I feel empty and full of desires and needs. But God will bring to the light what is hidden in the darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. When I come to the cross, and I sit at the foot of Calvary, and I watch the blood drip out of the hands of Jesus, the Holy and mighty maker of all things, he looks unto me and only says, “I love you.” I do have all that I want. Love, mercy, grace, and understanding unending. I am rich beyond measure. Why do I get up and leave this place? To chase after gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, that will not stand through the test of the fire? And what do I have that I did not receive? And if I did receive it, why do I boast as though I did not? I sit back down today, cross-legged and free underneath the shadow of the wings of God, filled underneath the cross of sufficiency.

Application: Today I will look for things I can do, or things I can give away to others, instead of looking to take care of my own.