This post is going to be amazingly similar to the one from January 24. Evidently I end up fighting the same battle more than once, though it's much more like just watching God fight the battle. I feel stupid sharing this struggle, but God's deliverance was so awesome that I just have to share.
Again I was feeling that I was unimportant, invisible, alone, even nonexistent. When I got to the part about feeling nonexistent, I got scared and decided I needed intervention from God. All I did was think, what's the truth (no fancy praying whatsoever), and the Lord immediately showed up in a big way, bringing the two-edged sword with Him. He reminded me of 1 Corinthians 3:16, "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?" What this verse means to me is that God gave HIMSELF to me to live in me. That makes me hugely important, significant, even glorious. Ephesians 1:4-6 also came to mind. It says that before God created the world, He chose me to be holy and blameless in Christ, and He adopted me as His child, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made me accepted in the Beloved. My dark thoughts were quickly gone as soon as the Light showed up. God brought His truth crashing into lies, and He overwhelmingly conquered! AND He did this for little old me, more than once. So that I have reason to believe He would help me again, with whatever need I have.
A recurring theme in these distressed moments of mine is that I'm surprised that I don't have to pray a certain way to be heard. It seems that God accepts me even when I'm not making an effort to impress Him. I know I'm stating the obvious, but I don't always believe that.
I want Jesus to live His life through me. Maybe this isn't a complicated ritual. Maybe I really am one spirit with the Lord (1 Corinthians 6:17). Maybe the (spiritual) space in between Jesus and me is imaginary. Maybe the reality is that my life is now hidden with Christ in God, forever (Col.3:3, John 14:16-17). One more Scripture: John 14:20: (Jesus speaking) "I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." Matthew Henry's commentary says that this means intimate, inseparable union.
I'm starting to get a little better understanding of this union. It's wonderful!
Friday, July 16, 2010
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