God Is Molding You His Way
I don't think the Christian life
was supposed to be like
candy-coated sweetness
ever so willingly being like everyone
around us, cookie cutter side by side.
It's being Spirit-led and Spirit-fed
and transformation is a complete
and complicated process
that can look messy
and the closet door is flown open
and all the skeletons come out
and unneeded junk
and it looks terrible to the untrained eye
and the cookie cutter manufacturers
who look elsewhere
for someone like them to fill the molds.
But the Holy Spirit is likened
to a wind that blows.
No one see's the source
where it flows from or knows
where it is going or blows.
I've been swept along by the wind
of the Most High
and I'll tell you, it is nothing like
what anyone has told you
or shared from the pulpit
or spoken in the pews.
Other-worldly, searching for the ones
who are willing to go
where the heart of God pulses
and flows.
He cares so deeply for the lost,
the lonely, the wounded, the despised
and abused.
The ones who can't give back
and are oppressed by the devil
in body, mind, soul and spirit.
He came to set the captives free!
By His Spirit He accomplishes that.
The wind, the anointing,
the creative life that He is.
Do we dare believe for a moment
that He looks like one of us
or thinks like us or behaves like us?
Do you think for a moment
that Christ came to die for all our sins
and to cleanse for Himself a people
who simply do traditions
passed down to them
from their forefathers?
If that were the case
would God Himself have needed
to impart Himself and live IN us?
Those who are willingly led
by Gods Spirit are His Sons.
When we walk by God's Spirit
we won't fulfill the lusts of our flesh.
All that is in this world -
the longings and lusts of our flesh,
the longing and lusts of our eyes
and the pride of this life
was never from the Father
but birthed from this world.
This world and all it's pride of religion
and the applause of men -
these are not from the Father.
The world passes away with ALL
it's lusts.
But the man or woman
who does the will of God
abides forever.
So the Spirit continually
springs up within us a love for God.
He leads us to God.
He is life and breath and wind
and fire and NOTHING like ourselves.
Be led by Him.
And don't judge His people
when He is cleaning the closet.
He is doing a MIGHTY work.
And those who are led by Him
will accomplish all Gods will
and they are His Kingdom come
and His will be done
because they have yielded to Him
in what looks ugly to others.
They looked to Him in faith
when their lives contradict EVERYTHING
everyone says is the right way.
They are His chosen vessels,
His clay to be molded
and not religions cookie cutters
that fit religions molds.
Don't be discouraged dear child of God
when others throw stones
to try and break
the precious work of molding you
His way that God is doing.
He may break us and He can heal us
time and time again.
He does that beautiful kind of work.
He regenerates and restores
the weary and those oppressed.
He sets captives free
and you are His vessel.
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