Because we asked…

Because we asked, God gave. Because we asked, God stopped in the heavenlies and sent a grace connection. Because we asked, life was turned into an uncomfortable place, to provide opportunity for us to see. Because we asked, we received what we needed, not what we wanted, and we were disappointed, and almost missed out on our blessing. Because we asked, we were granted our heart need, instead our perception and we were blessed beyond measure. Because we asked, we were taught, we much become a follower in God to become a leader in God’s, as it is above, it is beneath. Because we asked, we were taught a new arithmetic, we have to give to receive; in all things. Because we asked, we were taught humanity precepts are not in aligned with divinity percepts, and we have need to change our constructs. Because we asked, we were put in the unfamiliar to foster a different and expanded lens for the same landscape, so we could see the beauty around us and live freer.

Because we asked, we were had to travel some tumultuous valleys, and suffering some devastating losses, to see God’s grace is sufficient for us in our weakness, and we are never alone. Because we asked, God provided understanding for the absolute axiom; there is No crown, if there is No cross. Jesus set the example, the model, and his disciples provide the humanity touch for our understanding and the people who we teach about breathe life into the truths from the Living Word! Reread these verses again, clear a minute for God, and choose wisely…

2 Cor. 12:8-11 - Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(NIV)

Perceptions

Psalms 103:11-12 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,  so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us (NIV).

Our perception is our reality, and it is based on our past experiences. It is not in some of us, but it is in all of us. We think, we are seeing with an objective eye but until we get in, and check the unresolved, the unaddressed, and the unremoved in our life, they color the lens we see through. No one is immune from it, and no one gets a free pass or an exemption from it. Yet, we say, we write, and we put out there, this - to get what you have never gotten, you have to do what you have never done. True as it is, it is implied in this statement, you are willing to move into, exist in the unknown for a season to achieve the desired goal. This is not the known, unknown it is the true unknown where you shall be confront with the fears, the pains, the unworthiness, as well as the envy and jealousy imbedded in our psyche and soul. For you will be confront with you, and you must decide. 

The decision challenges us to do what is right, and not just we have the right to do. Difficult as this is, remember God provides a way of escape it is call unconditional love signed in blood. Resulting in grace, unmerited favor, resting in our wake waiting for us to trust in the Living Word, obey the immutable God, and be comforted by the absolute Comforter. We need to understand those who love, not what you represent or have, love you; and the others that leave never really loved you and you didn’t really need them. It is your perceptions that stops you…Choose and watch God work!!!

If you are, who you say...

Matt. 27:42-43-“He saved others; Himself He cannot save. If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”


If you are who you say you are, then why don't you do. However, having the ability to do and not do that is the stuff separate the confident and the conceited; the faithful and faithless; the god-fearing and the god-hearing. At this moment, we see the truth character of a person as the popular is deferred to what has a lasting legacy. When the immediate is not the necessity, rather the future holds the importance of greater significance. 
Life changes, eyes have a new perspective as souls find rejuvenation, and the surrendering to divinity comes like the flood... We choose, the choice is ours.