Shaping

Aloha precious friends and readers, 

Your point of view informs your priority. The one who takes their studies seriously and goes on to start a successful business and leads a lifestyle that speaks volumes attesting to the character of the person and the one who does not take their own life seriously and so wastes time engaging in unproductive activities and associating with non progressive individuals who idle about both have one thing in common ‘perception’.  How you think is how you see things and in effect how you prioritise and use the two most important commodities: your ‘time’ and ‘your energy’. Therefore, it is important to weigh in on issues before you form your perspective on them that you can informatively choose where you are going with your life. One of the challenges we all face in life is to know what to do with our lives.  Sometimes you find yourself doing one thing and wondering to yourself what else is there to be done or whether you are doing the right thing in that moment in time. During this time the one thing you cannot afford to do is to confuse your opinions and the way you see things with truth. Need I remind you that truth does not alter no matter what  situation it is presented in or how long it takes for the truth to be discovered and accepted.

“And you will know the truth [regarding salvation], and the truth will set you free [from the penalty of sin].” (John 8:32)

If you wondering what sin is; it is anything that does not hold true in line with the word of God.  So what truth are we referring to here?  We are talking about the truth that sets you free from contradictory mindsets and  lifestyles. The times that we live in is no longer about molly cuddling where truth must be wrapped in candy wrappers before it is served. Those who are looking desperately and diligently for rest for their souls can pick up truth, easily digest it and actually live it. Whereas those who are not interested in truth need to be convinced and perhaps bribed to take in parts of truth which they find hard to digest let alone to live it.

One thing I do know for sure is this: “So if the Son makes you free, then you are unquestionably free.” (John 8:36 AMP) The Son himself is the word of God. He is the truth that when you find, will shape your perception and affect your perspective.

Dear friend, what is shaping your perception? And whatever it is that is shaping your perception, is it the truth? I encourage you to go into yourself and ask yourself, “what do I prefer as a person, excellence or mediocrity and if it is excellence what kind, the one the world applauds or the one God requires of us that comes by putting on Christ who clothes us in His righteousness so that the life that we live is no longer us who lives but Christ that lives in us and is working through us to perfect His perfect plan in and for our lives. You can trust God even when you can't trace Him. You can follow Him even when you can't figure Him out. Why and How?  For the simple reason that whatever He says comes to pass. Whatever He says, is truth. When he looks at you even in your weakest state and calls you strong then that is what it is. Take a look at these accounts of Gideon and Jeremiah to capture what am trying to show you.

Gideon was going through some stuff then am sure, which cast some doubts about who he thought he was and what his life should have been, yet listen to the greeting."And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.( Judges 6:12 AMP )  Jeremiah says here "Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, For I am [only] a young man. But, the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’( Jeremiah 1:6-7a AMP) this is the kind of truth you will come into when you begin to make God's perception yours.

 

I urge you to go after the truth-Jesus, the soon and coming King in whom we find our salvation and shape your life after Him. For Himself is truth. He is The word that became flesh and lived amongst men.(John 1:14)  His return to earth is nearer than we ever thought and we cannot afford to be caught unawares living outside of Him.  What is worth more than your soul? And if you find yourself unable to understand this simple truth and really struggling to take it in  then perhaps it is that you are not ‘His’. In that case, you can decide to change that by meditating on His love and forgiveness and becoming His or just ignore everything said here.

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To doing life in the excellency of Christ.
R.