I was sitting a few evenings ago by my desk looking at some things on the internet. The sliding doors on the balcony were open. Outside it was unusually breezy however inside I could hardly feel it as for some reason, even though the air was howling, it was staying outside of the apartment in spite of the doors being wide open.
Suddenly my wife opened a window in one of the toilets which is not far from the lounge where I was sitting. As she did this a huge draft of cool wind broke into the room. As I sat there and enjoyed the breeze cooling me down I began to see that this picture was exactly the same thing that Dad wants to see happen in our lives.
You see many of us believe in this theory, and even strife to make it happen somehow, that Dad wants to erase us and take us over. We pray prayers like less of me and more of you Jesus. Even though I understand in principle what this probably means unfortunately it is a prayer that I believe will never be answered. This is because in my experience the God that I am discovering is not interested in possessing us, taking us over, nor in using us as His decoy.
Instead I believe that He wants us to feel Him and His life flowing through us. Just like I feel the breeze this evening. We need to understand that when we seek to be taken over and erased our attempts to help this process is what is actually responsible for blocking this flow through our lives, in the same way as if I once again closed the window my wife had suddenly opened.
I don’t know about you but I believe that when the flowing bit happens just like the breeze tonight we are refreshed and reinvigorated. As we allow his presence to ripple out of us more of the real us is revealed as we let go of all the false pretenses and strivings which all they do is get on the way.
Let us remember that Dad is not into violating people nor who they truly are. He wants to celebrate us and our originality. Inspiration to thwart this has nothing to do with Him and much to do with us trying to qualify what He has already called perfect and whole.
I encourage you today to consider making the choice to stop trying so you can give yourself a realistic chance to be able to start enjoying!
-pablo-
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