Recently, in something I had to write for school I wrote something along these lines: my idea of spirituality is not practicing religious actions that are devoid of life, but staying attuned to the voice of the Holy Spirit, and doing what that voice says to do. What the Holy Spirit tells one to do, and the reasons for it, may not be for someone else. Each of us is walking out our own intimate relationship with God.
However, there's a point to walking out your salvation. The point is about more than generating the blessings that are for me and mine alone. The point is to have the will of God done on the earth period. "Thy kingdom come (inside of us) thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." Remember, Jesus told us through David in Psalm 110: 1 to "make the enemies of God his footstool." Well why?
So he can return to the earth. He's not coming back until the Gospel is preached to the entire Globe, and until his enemies are made his footstool....meaning some of us Believer's need to start actually BELIEVING God, and exercising our authority. AUTHORITY and DOMINION, TO RULE AND TO REIGN, that's why we were created. The Earth was God's present to us.
It amazes me, how many "believers," do not in actuality believe that the ENTIRE word of God is true. It amazes me how you believe you've heard the voice of God, (with that childlike faith...or that faith of a musterdseed) and the minute you share it with other "believers," they tell you "Oh no you can't believe that..." and then give you some doctrinal reason as to why, as if God is bound by doctrine! Check out what Jesus said to the Pharisees....
Listen, just because YOU don't have the faith to believe what someone else has the faith to believe, doesn't mean you should go dousing their belief with your doubt.
As a believer, who was not raised in the "church," or in a Christian family..it is so clear to me, the difference between spirituality and religious behavior. Spirituality is alive. Religion is manmade and dead.
I hear more Christians talking about what God wont and cant do, then what he can. It's almost like they subconsciously have a box around God, and have limited his power, based on what they can comprehend.....by claiming to know what is too big a feat feat for him! PREPOSTEROUS! In my imagination I can see God now with a doorpost for those people that reads, "HATERS!"
Marilyn Hickey wrote a book called the Names of God. She listed and described certain characteristics of God, Jehovah Gmolah, the God of Recompenses, Jehovah Shalom, the God of Peace, etc. The point is that there is a name and/or description for each attribute of God that fits OUR NEED. That was not meant to limit God's ability, it was meant to make his nature comprehendable to us, in the sense that He can become whatever we need him to be: recompenser, husband, protector, miracle-maker, etc.
The Word of God says that the "Earth and all of creation is waiting on the Sons of God to manifest/" (Romans 8: 18-23) Well guess what a child of God and a Son of God are not the same thing. A Son of God is full grown, mature, able to use the keys of Heaven to unlock his or her inheritance...not a child still sipping "on the milk of the Word."
The lesson for the Son of God to learn is to do the following: Keep your mouth shut when you are talking to immature unbelieving believers, lest they quench your faith with their doubt.
It is better to walk alone with God, protecting the planted seed of the Word that he has planted, and is growing, until that seed manifest as the intended fruit, then to walk in the "counsel of the ungodly," even if they do attend church....ahem...and allow the enemy to do what he does best, "steal the Word."
Some people want to get churchified, some people actually want to do what Jesus said and become the Word. Some people want God to fit into their box. Other people want God to take them out of their box, and into the truth. For some people, Jesus is their bumper sticker, fish pin saviour, but not their Lord.
The last time I checked Christianity wasn't a fashion statement, it was the "way, the truth, and the life."
Candace
