"I don't often practice meditation because I often don't want to hear what God is telling me." I find this statement to be so true in my own life. So many times when God is beginning to teach me something, something that I know is going to be hard and hurt, I stop being with Him. I don't want to hear what He's telling me, I don't want to hurt. I want and try to resist the change that He is trying to implement in my life. "For to be in the presence of God is to change." I'm just going to say straight up that I don't like change, I never have. Change always seems to (sorry...word softener alert) suck when you're in the middle of it. I tend to try my very hardest to resist any change in my life, whether external or internal change. I like to be comfortable, I like to be in control...and when things around me or in me are changing I feel helpless, I feel like everything is just crumbling down around me. I feel totally out of control.
Yet over and over again, I am reminded that I am never in control. I can't try to hold onto my own life and keep everything the way I want it to be. I can't come before the my Creator and try to tell him that I want to be in control and that I don't want to change...yet that's my natural response. Out on the water when I want ski runs to finish on time, when I want the boats to work smoothly, when I want program to go a certain way, or have a sups spit convo with a camper (yes...I did just use three abreevs in a sentence :p), I "become so pre-occupied with my doing that I neglect the true nature of my very self." Guys, the boats don't matter...and truth be told, we don't either. God is going to change lives whether we pull ski-runs and banana runs or not. I hope that this summer we will be so focused on the fullness and abundance of our Creator that our love for Him will push us to serve in whatever way we are called (pulling runs, cleaning the Mikey, doing silly skits, telling our testimony, the list is endless). This summer, let's be disciplined in meditating on the Lord and being with Him...everything else will flow naturally from there. He's going to change lives, our's included, if we sit in his presence this summer. "To work effectively is to commune intimately with Christ and allow His energy and presence to define and animate your activity. ...It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters." (2011 Super Ultra)
Some other thoughts on change. "The process is alway more anguishing than expected but the resulting beauty of a life transformed is beyond imagination." "Life's highest ambition is to be completely destroyed and totally remade as a creature that reflects the full light of Christ's glory." (2011 Super Ultra) - I'll just let those quotes speak for themselves...they say it well.
"If you are tied and disenchanted you are in a very sacred place. Christ is pushing you to eat from the tree of life. He's leading you to the cross. He's building you up in love. He's helping you discover that your relationship with Him is not cream puff ideas of how to have a better day but instead an intense love affair that demands your body, heart, mind, and strength." (2011 Super Ultra) That sounds a little, maybe a lot like meditation, "meditation engages every part of us ---our mind, our emotions, our imagination, our creativity and, supremely, our will." God is going after all of us...so let's give it to Him!
I know that kind of strayed from the topic for a little bit (and even pulled out last summer's SUP, I just couldn't help it!)...but hopefully you guys could follow my circular thought process (at least a little bit). Hope you guys had a great week!
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