Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Light

9:53 AM by Christi Bowman

I ended yesterdays post with a comment about former selves being barely recognizable as they live more and more in the Light. I have eluded to John 6:29 quickly becoming my favorite verse..."The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

Last night we, as a family, played on our patio with moon sand. Our oldest noticed that some of the toys used to shape the moon sand into castles and such looked a lot like the orphan houses on her dad's map. She asked if we could make the orphan village, complete with school and church, and we did. Kevin snapped a picture of it and it may surface on his blog. The kids went in to eat supper and take their baths and I was left to clean up all the sand. And it hit me...like it hits me all the time. We are doing this. God uses things like moon sand, all of the time, to constantly keep His vision at the forefront of my mind.

I am not going to lie...I have a lot of questions. When I feel myself getting anxious I also feel God reminding me of John 6:29. His work for me is not to worry about selling the house or to worry about anything...my work is to believe in the One He has sent. That is not an excuse to sit around and let things happen...it is to trust in what He guides me to do. He lives inside me and I have died to myself. I have to trust, that as I renew my mind with His word, that my thoughts are no longer just my own. Strange things have been happening to me...some stranger than others...but I have to trust in those. He puts rooms of my house in my mind...things I need to get "more organized". I start to organize and when I am done I have found the room in a box or very easily put in one. WE ARE MOVING. That is becoming very real to me, and I don't worry about it...it just happens.

This is what John 6:29 means to me...believing on the One He has sent doing his thing on the inside of me. Believing on the One He has sent means believing on the One inside of you...in essence believing in yourself once you have died. That is not just giving yourself the o.k. to do whatever hurtful thing you want to do, but it is trusting in the fact that once you have died you have died...and what you are being driven to do is what you need to do...keeping in mind Romans 6:16(MSG) You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act.

Romans4:20-25 says this about Abraham: He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That's why it is said, "Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right." But it's not just Abraham; it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

John 12:36 As you have the light, believe in the light. Then the light will be within you, and shining through your lives. You'll be children of light."

"As you have the light, believe in the light"...As Jesus gives you things to do, say, and hear, BELIEVE...do, say, and listen to them...and He will be in you, and shine through you..."You'll be children of light" Right now I am hearing that this is what it means to be justified.

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