Life…when we were kids, it was light, in an unpressured what cereal do I want to eat today kind of way. We didn’t have uncertainty of self because
we were in the midst of what would be our musings for adulthood today.
Now that we are all grown up, physically at least, our stride with Christ tends to get a bit cocky. We dare say things like, “I’ve been through that and got the t-shirt.” Our giftings become casual afterthought.
Why is this??
The anointing…At any minute the Lord could eliminate the thing that grants us the confidence to not read our Bibles on a regular basis as we proudly pose ourselves on our couches each evening inhaling the fumes of our past conquest and testimonies. We have categorized the anointing on our lives as Captain Crunch, Fruity Pebbles and Apple Jacks…options that will always be there because “I” paid the price for it. The weight the anointing has been disguised as a “light thing” that will always be there when I wake up in the morning.
As children, we didn’t think about the cost, we just piddled around the grocery store with our parents, riding on the edge of the metal bar, with complete ignorance of the price that would have to be paid for us to eat.
Selah.
We must steward our giftings better.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20:
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
I don’t desire to ever get in a place of expecting my gifting to remain and for the Lord to willingly choose me to represent him through it. How dare I think so highly of myself to always expect HIS anointing to show up through me. Remember this, “silly rabbit, trix are for kids”? Well, tricks are too. You may be outwitting people, but your success is a flimsy plastic bowl with God.
Let’s proceed with caution when it comes to our choices. You’re not that secure and established to where you cannot be humbled. He, the one you call Lord, is gracing us with processing in privacy, don’t tempt His hand of public exposure.
Matthew 7:13-14:
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
It is a narrow way.
Today’s challenge…get back at His feet.
With love,
Marsha
