This phrase has been stuck in my head; God has been telling me, "Look for these places. These are the places where you find My heart."
It seems to me to be so appropriate. The Divine has been reaching to touch the dust since the beginning. The dust has been reaching back. I get the image of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in my head, and I am just so moved. It's beautiful.
Sometimes we reach out to other things in a misguided attempt to reach back to the Divine that so relentlessly pursues us. However, in better times, we can reach out to people, and, in doing so, we can reach back to the Divine. We can display the Divine to others. We need to give love freely with no strings attached. This is the essence of the divine God we worship; He is the embodiment of the most perfect love. We need to quench our dehydrated souls with the living water that flows so freely from our Saviour's throne.
In the collision of the living water and the dust, mud occurs. No one said loving people was a neat business; things get messy. Comfort zones get destroyed. Societal boundaries crumble. Our expectations of what life should be get altered, and perhaps, completely changed all together. Society's pressures shatter around us. We get the mud rubbed on our eyes, and we can finally see. We see what really matters; we see the image of Christ in every person.
I pray that the church can have the scales fall off our eyes more fully. I pray that The Spirit would abound and compel us to love in ways we never imagined before.
Be the manifestation of love to someone today.
Do something for them with no strings attached.
Pay for the coffee of the person behind you.
Pay for the meal of the family across from you.
Give the person at the pump across from you ten dollars for gas.
Write a note of encouragement and edification to your coworker.
Buy coffee for the sign waver on the side of the road.
Give some money for the person's groceries behind you.
Bake your neighbor a cake.
Have your neighbors over for dinner.
Listen to The Spirit; He will gladly lead you.
Do it all in the name of Jesus. I would say that it is vastly important that they know that is why you are doing it. There are a lot of ideas about karma and being a good person, but we love for Love Himself.
We don't need to over-complicate this. The holy invades the secular. The light overcomes the darkness daily. We are the children of the omnipotent God, and we are called to love and "stomp hell for a living."
[The quoted portion here is a saying from my brother in Christ Todd White. If you have never heard him speak before, go YouTube him ASAP. He is such a radical, God-loving, Jesus-imitating guy. He is a person who inspires me.]
