Be Not Earthbound

“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”

John 17:16

BE NOT EARTHBOUND

“Be not entangled in the things of the world, for they are transitory.

Be not over concerned as to they personal needs,

For your Heavenly Father knoweth what ye have need of

And He will supply it.

I will be to thee what the sun is to the flower;

What the water in the ocean is to the fish;

And what the sky is to the birds.”

BE NOT EARTHBOUND

“Come Away My Beloved”

God Presence is immense.  It is everywhere with no boundaries or tethers.   His Presence is total freedom for my soul.  If I feel out of His Presence or if I feel tethered, those are my feelings, my perceptions.  He puts total trust and faith in me to be His child.  Any chaos or change in our relationship

is my action, not His.

God provides me with all I need or could ever want.  I am free to take all of my inheritance and wander off looking for life.  I am free to squander all of it away and end up in the gutter or feeding pigs somewhere.  That is not God’s Way for me but He never tethers me to His Way and allows me to go my way, no matter how wrong that way is.  But even in my rebellion and wandering off He is always there, waiting for my return. 

No one but me can make the decision to go home.  I must come to my senses on my own, in my own experience.  When I do I will humble myself through conviction, not guilt.  I will remember and realize how good I had it and will return broken and willing to simply be a servant in my Father’s house.  But that is not His intent.  He waits for me, His child, to come home on my own free will…my freely made choice.  When I do I am welcomed and celebrated as His child.  I have had a couple of instances when I didn’t come to my senses and God sent a Nathan to me, just as He sent Nathan to David to make him aware of His wrongdoing.  This is just further proof of how immense God’s love is for me.

The other side is true as well.  God doesn’t want me feeling tethered or corralled, looking out at all that the world offers, feeling obliged to be good but wanting to experience life as the world gives it.  God’s Way is not a Duty to perform, like I am doing God a huge favor by staying in His Presence.  That is a worse squandering of ones life.  One needs to come to one’s senses about that attitude as well.

I look back over my life and see how foolish I was over and over again.  I made bad choices and lived in the consequences of those choices way too many times.  God never left me and I was always welcomed home from my foolish adventures.  I wouldn’t want to squander my life away like that again but I learned from those experiences so I wouldn’t want to change anything. They all go into the compost pile that I keep raking and using to enrich the new growth in my daily life.

The most important lessons that I learned is how much God loves me; I learned what a good Father He truly is; I learned His Way is the best way for me; I learned how much this Relationship with Him means to me. There is nothing that this world offers that even comes close.  God doesn’t tether me.  Being with Him and loving Him isn’t a Duty.  I freely yoke myself to Jesus because I enjoy and receive life from that Relationship and Presence. There is nothing better.