Swimming Up Stream
Much of my life these days truly feels as if I am indeed Swimming Up Stream!
One might think that peer pressure is for youths, but I am not a youth, though in spirit I am. Things change, people change, desires change, lives change. Point is, are we willing to accept that truth?
I'm a softy. I'm a peacemaker, though I am very excitable. I am consistent in what I know God is blowing His breath on. Other things, I feel so much pressure from the faith community I have been a part of for many years. Truth is, I am a Human Being, not a Human Doing!
I love Shabbat because the city stops. Israeli's are forced to "shut it down." Other wise, they would keep going. There is peace, a quiet, and a stillness on the streets and people allow themselves this one day of the week, to Breathe, rest, and meditate on God.
Of course, myself, He is my cup of everything, so it's not a one day affair, but a lifetime affair. He is my meditation, my source, my focus and my answer to everything. Doesn't mean I don't escape in different ways to rest my overactive brain.
I live in city that has spirits of intimidation and pressure, otherwise known as the "pressure cooker." Not everyone would live here. I love a challenge, so here I am.
Jerusalem chooses you, we don't choose Her. It's a God thing. I am here for as long as He wills.
Right now, I'm struggling about my community and my autonomy. I'm in a different season of my life, and I really need to honor myself. I need to be the one to set the bar of how I will be treated. There is so much dishonor, and it's sickening. God loves and respects me, He honors me, His creation, and He expects others to treat me with that honor, His very own Masterpiece, Me!
I want relationship. I'm focusing on it, I'm delighting in it, and it means something to me. It's nourishing, it's encouraging and it inspires my heart. We were made for relationship. Church is not relationship. Superficial can be. For me relationship, fellowship is church. God has prepared me to put more importance at this time in my life for intimacy in my friendships. I am glad. He has brought me here.
I'm torn. I want my autonomy. I want to be free. I was made to delight in God, not to be controlled. I want to continue to soar, and not have anyone shoot me down. I was made to stay in flight. One on one discipleship is God's design so we can strengthen and share our stories with one another. We can exhort and admonish and trust each other, for this is God's plan. But we must remember, we humans are all fallible.
We must develop a strong foundation, because we will come up against man's continuous imperfections, Jealousies and the like. But God uses all of those challenges to refine us and make us more of whom He desires for us to be, for His good pleasure! I believe that we give God the greatest glory when we truly live out out what we were made for in this life!
It takes a lot of strength so to speak, to Swim Up Stream, but much of life is that way, because we are fighting the pressure of societal and community strains, to "be like the others" and "Do what the others are doing." We must hold our own in the Lord and be true to how God is leading us.
We need to built up from the inside, with God breathing His very breathe into us. Let's stand strong in the Lord today and honor the unique One of a Kind individual that He has fashioned us to be! No one can bring into this world we we can. We have been called and set apart. We are not replaceable and this world needs us! Together with God, we can have the courage to "Move forward" into ALL that He has for us in this life, until the day of Messiah Yeshua!
One might think that peer pressure is for youths, but I am not a youth, though in spirit I am. Things change, people change, desires change, lives change. Point is, are we willing to accept that truth?
I'm a softy. I'm a peacemaker, though I am very excitable. I am consistent in what I know God is blowing His breath on. Other things, I feel so much pressure from the faith community I have been a part of for many years. Truth is, I am a Human Being, not a Human Doing!
I love Shabbat because the city stops. Israeli's are forced to "shut it down." Other wise, they would keep going. There is peace, a quiet, and a stillness on the streets and people allow themselves this one day of the week, to Breathe, rest, and meditate on God.
Of course, myself, He is my cup of everything, so it's not a one day affair, but a lifetime affair. He is my meditation, my source, my focus and my answer to everything. Doesn't mean I don't escape in different ways to rest my overactive brain.
I live in city that has spirits of intimidation and pressure, otherwise known as the "pressure cooker." Not everyone would live here. I love a challenge, so here I am.
Jerusalem chooses you, we don't choose Her. It's a God thing. I am here for as long as He wills.
Right now, I'm struggling about my community and my autonomy. I'm in a different season of my life, and I really need to honor myself. I need to be the one to set the bar of how I will be treated. There is so much dishonor, and it's sickening. God loves and respects me, He honors me, His creation, and He expects others to treat me with that honor, His very own Masterpiece, Me!
I want relationship. I'm focusing on it, I'm delighting in it, and it means something to me. It's nourishing, it's encouraging and it inspires my heart. We were made for relationship. Church is not relationship. Superficial can be. For me relationship, fellowship is church. God has prepared me to put more importance at this time in my life for intimacy in my friendships. I am glad. He has brought me here.
I'm torn. I want my autonomy. I want to be free. I was made to delight in God, not to be controlled. I want to continue to soar, and not have anyone shoot me down. I was made to stay in flight. One on one discipleship is God's design so we can strengthen and share our stories with one another. We can exhort and admonish and trust each other, for this is God's plan. But we must remember, we humans are all fallible.
We must develop a strong foundation, because we will come up against man's continuous imperfections, Jealousies and the like. But God uses all of those challenges to refine us and make us more of whom He desires for us to be, for His good pleasure! I believe that we give God the greatest glory when we truly live out out what we were made for in this life!
It takes a lot of strength so to speak, to Swim Up Stream, but much of life is that way, because we are fighting the pressure of societal and community strains, to "be like the others" and "Do what the others are doing." We must hold our own in the Lord and be true to how God is leading us.
We need to built up from the inside, with God breathing His very breathe into us. Let's stand strong in the Lord today and honor the unique One of a Kind individual that He has fashioned us to be! No one can bring into this world we we can. We have been called and set apart. We are not replaceable and this world needs us! Together with God, we can have the courage to "Move forward" into ALL that He has for us in this life, until the day of Messiah Yeshua!
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