You think of the life you live and really how beautiful it is...all the scars, the bumps, the bruises, the awkward interactions...God's enabled us to experience with free will. We enslave ourselves or choose to free ourselves. We allow ourselves or restrict, or both/and.
We dream of things for our selfish selves and then our perspective is broadened to include others. We realize this life really isn't about us and that it is for others, it is for Him. God, Jesus Christ to be glorified and His Holy Spirit to be our counselor and guidance.
We are guided to a larger view, a larger vision and purpose. He enables us to battle with battles we never thought possible to beat or to endure. He carries us through obstacles, challenges and dangers. He walks with us through tragedies and heart breaks. He is everything. He clears a path that we can't immediately see and then shows us slowly one step at a time with His light and still, small voice. He chooses the most innocent of us all to sacrifice and for him to come in the form of a baby, helpless and without fault.
He brings us life and in doing so, shows His love, His ultimate, beautiful, unconditional love and all He asks in return for Him, is to use us. What if we are to be used by God to help others? What if we are to adopt others into our families - figuratively as well as literally? What if we took the focus off of me? What if?.....
I think Mark and I might be beginning to live in some of the answers of the what if.......and where this will go..........well I guess we'll just have to find out, one obedient step at a time.
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