The New year has rung in and 2009 is before us. The Lord has been impressing on my heart a theme of "Getting Real" this year. What does this mean? Well friend it means that this is the year we begin to be honest with ourselves, the people around us, and most importantly - the Lord. We have allowed ourselves the luxury of living a life of smoke and mirrors. Unfortunately, at some point the smoke clears and the mirrors warp. The result leaves us looking at the cold, hard reality of our lives. The scripture in 1 John 4:4 (The Message) speaks to this:
My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.
We have become lost in the unrealistic idea of flawless bodies on the covers of magazines, info-mercials telling us we must have these products to improve our lives, the fallacy "that money makes everything better", and most importantly that if we "look the part" nobody will know the pain we are suffering inside. If true, we could make our lives perfect by buying and believing all the beautifully wrapped garbage the world has offered up. It is time to GET REAL!
Are you living in a charade, acting out your life without truly living it? Do you cry silent tears so no one will see through the well placed, flawless mask? I hear story after story from women talking about the sham they have allowed their lives to become. They just don't know how to crawl out of the fallacy they have been living in. That's where the GET REAL part comes into play.
I want to encourage you to start committing to prayer your circumstances. Allow God to strip away the well placed layers of deception. Though it is painful and revealing, I promise you will find it liberating (not the burning bra liberating but emotionally freeing). The scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 describes it like this:
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
Allow Him to remove the veil you have covered yourself with; the veil of deception, hopelessness, depression, and discontentment. When you do you will see the world with new eyes. You will see His vibrant colors and breath the clean air of honesty. You will taste the sweetness of victory in living the authentic, freeing Christian life. It's a new year friend and a fresh start. Let's start today! So lovingly I say to you - GET REAL!
With deep love and prayers,
Lonna
2 comments:
Asi es!!Ya es Tiempo de ser humilde de buscar a Dios y darnos cuenta de que sus planes son los que amamos!! comparto 2 Tesalonicenses 2:16-17. Te quiero, Dios te Bendiga.
Analia Clavero de Castillo- Adolfo Sourdeaux- Buenos Aires- Argentina
So it is! It is time to be humble to seek God and realize that their plans are those that we love! 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 share. I love you, God bless you.
You are a precious sister! I love and miss you!
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