Seeing God through a Clear Lens
I crave clarity about God and things unknown, particularly when it comes to the benefit of healing the soul. I crave the truth regarding love since it's the foundation our lives were to be built on. I crave resolve for the hurting soul. But this meant I had to be willing to change some preconceived ideas about God. I had to be willing to let the Spirit of God renew my mind from former beliefs about my value and the greatness of God’s love for me, especially when those who were to be responsible or loyal, forsook me instead. I had a choice between love or hate after experiencing faulty expressions of love. I refused to let hate win over my soul or to believe it was Gods fault.
Is God an Enabler or a Tyrant?
God's desire is for us to know His heart, but many are deceived and see God as distant, not intimate or compassionate. On the other extreme, people see Him enabling their egocentric ways, not showing them correction, because they choose to avoid accountability. Others would rather see Him as not personal, replacing a relational God for an impersonal word like “Universe.” Life may seem easier or safer within that mindset because then one can retain more control, but the inner child may never completely healed. Trust me, it’s better to heal, than to hide what hurts. For me, I had to choose to trust God, since there was nobody else to run to.Trusting in a true and just love on an intimate level must be discovered if we ever want to be whole.
Seeing God as personal is too scary for many people. I
guarded my heart from Him at an intimate level for years. If God was so good, why did He allow such bad things? God doesn’t change,
but we are subject to deception and evil influences in this life. It's up to us to learn and discern the truth.
Be Willing to Tear Down the Walls
If we want to grow spiritually and change our beliefs about Him, it requires humility and sometimes adversity to see the error of our ways. Then we might begin to experience the power of His love and grace through our suffering. It means deconstructing the survival walls built from pain and fear from years past. But surviving is so much less than thriving. God wants to rescue us from the deception and lies that keep us from knowing Him and the power available to us to thrive. This takes surrender and abandon. It takes the willingness to be teachable and admit we were mistaken. The highest form of truth and love available to mankind is given to the searching soul. Before darkness came, mankind was one with God without walls.
Scripture reveals that Jesus was the imprint of the love of
God to us. Jesus was God’s love personified. God’s nature was depicted in the
life of Christ as “one” being with God.
John 17:21 states: that
they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they
also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
This is the same connection God wants with us, but it
requires a willingness to first believe that His love is for us, then second,
to see God as He is. The believing part is on us; to choose it. Seeing Him as He
is, follows (first) believing who He is to us.
John 20:31 states: “but these are written so that you may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.”
Believing opens your heart to the truth of Gods great love for
you. His self-sacrificing love touching the soul, brings back
the lost intimacy with God, our spiritual Father. Without being open to this love, people are emotionally perishing because
of a lack of this knowledge. See Hosea 4:6
Experiencing Perfect Love
God is the true lover of our soul, who sent Jesus to take your sin upon Himself, rather
than punishing us for it. Yet many, for lack of knowledge and acceptance of
His love, would rather distance themselves out of fear and denial. Denying their need for His love allows the building of a faulty, presumably “safe” belief system that's familiar and one we can control. Unknowingly many fall prey to strategies of the deceiver who despises
the fact we could be changed and emotionally renewed by a knowledge and experience of Perfect Love. Without realizing, they are limiting their own growth in every area of influence as well.
There is increasing awareness on mankind's need for an unconditional love. People are catching up with our God designed need for social-emotional learning and emotional intelligence. We see similar ideals being implemented early in life in order to lay a love-built foundation in all three dimensions of our lives, (spirit, soul and body).
Many adults are starting to use reframing tools like Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) We need to get back to the very root of our problems. When life is not built on love, it is built on fear. Jesus was not fearful, but confident in God's love.
Many adults are starting to use reframing tools like Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) We need to get back to the very root of our problems. When life is not built on love, it is built on fear. Jesus was not fearful, but confident in God's love.
"There is no fear in love but Perfect love casts out all fear. For fear has to do with punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." 1 John 4:18 ESV
Instead of seeing God as distant and lacking empathy, we trust in the transformational power of His grace. We see Him not as punishing us, but wanting to change faulty beliefs which led us astray from His best for us. When we come home to Him, He doesn't scold or embarrass us, but instead picks us up and clothes us in His righteousness. He doesn't call us out to shame and punish us for coming to Him. His loving-kindness calls us up into who we really are; His beloved. As we grow up (spirit, soul and body) we learn by Christ's example, it's not all about self (apart from God) but becoming one with Him.
Today, why not let God love you as the true person you are? No longer should you be a slave to fear, but by faith be the son or daughter He has chosen you to be.
"For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Romans 8:15 ESV
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