Another gem from Lee

Posers….or as the song goes plastic people. Does your heart beat within you with a passion? Or are you like the rest of the world like a zombie searching for your heart and life? I think the biggest problem with us Christians is that we really don’t believe Jesus. If we did it would show. Jesus said seek the kingdom of God first and all the stuff we think makes life worth living would be given to us. Instead, we seek the things that we think will make us happy and try to add Jesus into the mix. How backwards is that? The Bible promises if we search for Him with a hunger and thirst we will be filled. If we search for fulfillment we will go hungry and thirsty. Empty.

God has designed us for relationship. First with Him, then with other believers. Community. That’s the ticket to happiness. Most people have to wear themselves thin before they can listen to the Spirit quietly yet definitely calling them to a real life…a life that satisfies.

Real, we need to be real. We need to be with people who let us be real…who God made us to be. We need acceptance. We need to know God finds pleasure in us and He looks upon with love and desire to walk with us if we would only walk with Him. We need to be real not because that is what we are supposed to do but because if we don’t we will die inside and our heart will stop beating. But we are afraid to be real. We have been in a world (and sadly even in church) where we are constantly being corrected and chastised for being ourselves. Walking with God is not just behaving. It is living. Real living. To truly live a life worthy of God we have to be real first.

Let’s quit faking and be real. Be filled and full.

-Lee Jones