As I'm reading everyone's posts on here, I realize it's time for me to write again too. I have a lot to share today so I'm putting it into separate posts.
As I said in my last post, these next days in this week (as a short-term goal), are going to be about "less of me, most of HIM." As I'm learning to hush, listen, act according to what HE would want, I'm finding it very difficult. It's not the distractions from the outside that are getting to me, but the ones INSIDE.
I have always been a person who needed people. The only times I wasn't wanting someone in my life in some form, were when I'd just been wounded by another "someone." Then, I'd pull the shell up around me and say "I don't trust anyone. I don't need anyone. I am self-sufficient so GO AWAY!" I think I THOUGHT I meant it too, but deep inside, it was just me trying to convince myself that I was an ISLAND and could sustain myself just fine...knowing fully-well, it was a lie. Being a social type of person, it never lasted very long either...only till the next ideal situation came along.
At this point, I'm learning something called BALANCE in my life. I've actually been learning it since 2005 when the last "someone" burned me big time! You see, if you put people on the throne of your life, when they fall, you become disillusioned. Chances are, by that time, you've already given so much of "you" to them, that there isn't much left within yourself to hold onto. Yes, you always have God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, church, mentors...but if you lose your inner core, what it boils down to, is that you become empty in a bad way...lost again. Jesus said "love your neighbor AS YOURSELF." So, it appears that we ARE to have a love for ourselves, not just always give to others codependently, at the expense of our own health, emotional stability or life in general. (Bible verses need to be taken in context as much as possible)
Don't ever give yourself away to another person to that extent. Only GOD is safe to do that with. People will and do fail you and if you doubt that, just try and see any 1 person as your "all in all" and you will watch their pedestal fall and the person crumble before your very eyes. You will see and feel what it is like to have no compass whatsoever, when you trust any human who is NOT THE "way, truth, and LIFE." That sums up ALL of us, and if anyone tells you different, they are...and I will be bold about this...a LIAR! God says to "receive them NOT." Man equalling God is "another gospel" that we need to not even lend our ears to for a moment!
Jesus is the ONLY Way! In fact, in Bible times, I'm pretty sure that His followers were called "followers of the WAY." To be honest, I don't use the term "Christian" to describe myself very much. The world fears Christians; sees them as nutty, rebellious, insane creatures. I am doing the best I know how to listen to God's guidance with not only my ears but the ears of my Spirit...because only His Son, Jesus is MY Way. No man, woman, child, animal, situation can be EVERYTHING to me. Only Him.
(Go to the next post to read "when the bough breaks and the pedestal falls")
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