Sunday, October 19, 2008

Being -Doing-Belonging

PONDERS AND WONDERS: Father had a wonderful message today about giving to God what is God's. I realize how I may gripe about what belongs to Cesear to Cesear, but when you really ponder that what belongs to God you give Him...it requires a shift in the thinking....
SINCE ALL IS HIS....time, talent and treasure...ALL OF IT>....so easy to pay the tithe, give Him the 10%, did my duty and then I am done! Right...WRONG....the heart of this scripture is beyond the tithe....and not just the tithe of money, but what about time...2.4 hours/day belong to HIM...not DOING FOR HIM...actually belong to HIM...and what about my talents and gifts....using them FOR HIM....NOPE they belong to HIM...to do WHAT HE WILLS....how easy I can deceive myself that it is ALL His because I am doing FOR HIM....and yet does it really belong to Him OR is that sense of good because I am doing and controlling my giving and actions.
Seems I circle back to the destruction of my being,,,,the Human Doing....instead of BEING...I can easily cloud the issue with urgencies and responsibilities...yet BELONGING TO HIM...ALL
The sense of belonging not because of what I do, but because of who WE ARE...HIM and ME....there for each other, to talk, to laugh, to figure out what's next...to BE. I guess it boils down to the LOVE factor with TOTAL ABANDONMENT to HIM.
Lord I have so far to go, thank you for drawing me again to a place of greater surrender, please help me live beyond the tithe. Let it be a 100% of my life, all my being belonging without resistance to you....

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