Sunday, September 20, 2009

Our Story

Romans 14:12 - So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God. (NASB)

We all have a story, and it is nothing wrong with it,until we forget it is not oracle of our destiny. See, we look for individuals, who will be the co-signer or the person who is co-dependent with us in our story. No one can help us, when we are more married to our story, than we are to our growth, progression. We have played our story over and over in our mind, or held on to the denial of its truth buried in our soul. Both are self-destructive and equally insurmountable stop-gates we cannot get pass, without owning the truth. Is it excruciating painful to stop and deal? Heck ya! However, there are no shortcuts in morphing into, and creating lasting change, lasting positive change without work, going through the process totally. Not with fragmented truths, or sporadic behaviors; letting go of our ‘story’ allows us to live authentic with our Lord. See, everyone has a story but we cease living in the residual of its power, when we become accountable to God, not man.

As we move forward with accountability to God, our story changes. Now, instead of having one story playing over and over in our minds, or denying it in our souls that is destructive, we create a life with different chapters learn a new lesson with each chapter written. We learn to take what was a dichotomy with dissonance chords in our life leaving unbalance, to creating a life journey that is harmonious and balance because of our trust in God. Realizing sometimes God needs to show us through our willingness to sacrifice everything to him in obedience provides a grounded foundation for Him to build on, and security no one can take away from you. And this allows us to be fully free as a person as the ‘truth sets us free as a Christian’. Then and only then, can we live as James challenges us to in this verse - James 1:19 -This you know, my beloved brethren but everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (NASB) – when you are not living as a victim, this is what we creates with the ‘story’, we are able to not be afraid, we will be found out because God has given us joy unspeakable, and we now see the true character of God.

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