Ease Me of Myself
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| Description | 'If anybody would come after me, he should deny himself and just take up his cross and follow me. For whoever desires to save his life will drop it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a guy to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul'? Mark 8: 34-36, NIV This has been an extended difficult summer and yet therefore fully alive with all the current possibilites that God has shown me. I am rapidly approaching the almost finished task of co-authoring a book on organic dog health with a holistic veterinarian, introduced out a new product line with Saving Grace Enterprises, and ramping up for an on the web conference with vets, health practitioners, etc., to help train on ending a superbug staph disease. Now this all sounds sort of significant right? Well perhaps not in accordance with what God has been telling me all week! Last Sunday operating, our pastor had a really interesting sermon on Psalm 2-3 even as we shut out a string on The Godward Heart. We have all seen and read that psalm since we were children almost certainly, whichever Christian faith we are. Nevertheless, I have not ever noticed it introduced like this and that's almost certainly why it resonated so loudly with me. Let me do my usual roundabout means of getting to the idea here... Psalm 23 is all about the Shepard and His sheep, right? Understanding what a shepard's work was and how h-e went about it in Jesus' day is what got my attention. Whoever has read my articles here understand that I am not just a pet lover but my business is a business in natural pet care. When our pastor started describing how a shepard cares for his sheep and what instruments h-e uses, I felt like God was sitting close to me and whispering in my ear and it sent shivers up my spine in a most wonderful way! I have wondered for-a very long time how God would use me in an all natural pet-care company. He Then brought me together with Dee Kreidel and Saving Grace Enterprises to create our new product line in custom hand-tooled leather collars, leads and journals. Huh I said? So how exactly does that go with natural pet care Lord? I obtained a fascinating response Sunday AND one which explained not to simply take myself therefore seriously. I will reach all that in a bit. The shepard had an employee (we all know that) that was about 5 or 6 ft tall I really believe our pastor said. It'd the land at the end we all learn about and which was to keep sheep collected in and not walking. Sound familiar? Ever wonder why God identifies us as sheep? It is not a flattering statement because they're not the brightest beings in creation, and they need constant tending and direction. The shepard also carried a baton concerning the size of what our police bring today. He'd use that to fight off attacking predators. He also used it for something a bit more severe. If one sheep was constantly wandering off and maybe not learning how to stick with the herd, the shepard would make use of the baton to split one or two of this sheep's feet and then immediately set them. Then he'd carry that sheep around his neck until he was entirely healed. The purpose? For the sheep to become influenced by the shepard for all its needs and to connect fully with him. Again, God does the same to His children. Another interesting point the shepard could do is to put oil on each sheep's head and also body to ward off pests (bugs, clicks, travels, the usual suspects). Today the oil known is not your vegetable cooking oil as that would not defend against insects. Nope it was what we now know as essential oils (which in addition still are used extensively in that area of the world due to their therapeutic benefits and fast growing in america) combined with almost certainly olive oil. The oils served yet another purpose also. Lamb are silly and get angry with one another over anything (again like us). When they did get angry, they'd go getting into each other to butt heads so difficult that they might kill each other. With the oil on the minds, it'd help them to skid off each other preserving them from killing each other. Yep, I'm getting to your pet organization with Dee and the 'serious stuff.' Therefore for his own safety the shepard would take a large leather poncho he would use throughout inclement weather and also use like a 'pup tent' of sorts to settle. So we have got Dee's leather goods and my essential oils in the dog business. Hmmm. Leather was the Shepard's defense. Gas through the entire Bible is representative of the Holy Spirit. He uses animals as types of us. Is someone else 'seeing' this? God will certainly use whichever, wherever, whoever for His purpose and beauty if we just get the heck from the way. Be treated of ourselves in order that Jesus can reign and work. He will protect us and He will offer us. Here was what was so funny if you ask me when our pastor got to the Three Points of Ap-plication part: 1. I discovered webaddress by browsing Google Books. Since the Shepard is in control, I dont need to simply take myself so seriously. It is EXACTLY about Him. This does not mean to not take ISSUES on the planet really because we have to. This means not to get OURSELVES so seriously. If we do keep getting ourselves so seriously, then that is actually internalized pleasure and wrong thinking grounded in the failure to surrender. 2. As the Shepard cares, I will relieve my problems to Him. Identify more on this affiliated essay - Click here: analysis. This influential pastor lee mcfarland web resource has several dynamite suggestions for when to look at it. Matthew 11:28, 1 Peter 5:7. 3. As the Shepard is qualified, I will trust Him to guide my life. God explained in no uncertain terms not only WHAT I am likely to be doing but also WHY, and HOW everything tied in with WHO He is. What H-e didn't tell me was WHEN. Leave it to Him to keep tempering and teaching as He goes about His purpose. On Tuesday or Wednesday after this riveting sermon on Sunday, John Fischer of a Purpose-driven Life wrote this in his devotional Acquittal by Penguin the following paragraph: 'This is not to say that any behavior in the natural kingdom legitimizes corresponding action among human beings, but I really do think God has provided us animals to mirror human behavior, and help us see ourselves in another light and not simply take ourselves or our roles therefore seriously. ' (italics mine) Hey, do you consider God is attempting to share with me something? So then I was listening to some contemporary Christian music o-n Thursday while doing my housework. I had been playing Jennifer Knapp's CD, Lay it Down, and the music 'Into You' came o-n. The words in the chorus 'ease me of myself, bring me in-to You' just stuck out like a sore thumb and I've paid attention to that song a variety of times. I KNOW God was telling me to take a chill pill, lay it down, trust Him, don't take myself so seriously, He has an objective for the work I'm doing so enable Him to work, be treated of myself, be determined by Him and just enjoy the ride! WHEW! What a journey too brethren. So if anybody gets too 'puffed-up' maybe we all just need to overcome ourselves and sleep within the Shepard. I sure don't wish to have to understand the hard way and just take a 2X4 baton!. |
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