When I wrote this post last week, What should be occupied… I did not expect the fundamental shift in my thinking and understanding that happened following.
In the comments I replied:
My point is it is not up to anyone but the people to do what is in their own power and resources to fix the issues. God’s plan through Christ was and is because we have it screwed up. While I agree with you about the Greed… Christ’s command to us is to Love One another… If we started doing that for every person encountered…. Greed would take care of itself. We have to stop thinking that anything we think of this side of heaven will fix the issues of this world, and start looking to the example of Christ.
He touched the Lepper,…, he called out the righteous, he served the poor, he washed the feet… and He Loved the unlovable, which is every single person to walk the face of this earth… Why on earth do we think that the ideas of this world will fix anything?
LOVE IS THE ANSWER!!! Let love be the OCCUPIER.
I have wrestled with God all week about where, why and how… And what Love being the Occupier should look like.
The world and all of it’s influence really has us screwed up, in thanking that we can get what we want in life just by consuming what is being sold. Forming our thoughts around what it means to be rich, have stuff, be sexy, and buy happiness. We dream about it and pursue each whim that fills our desire, and make temporary Idols of what we think fills those desires. My soul screams and my heart aches, watching people not consuming but being consumed by a life full of lies. A life consumed with finding pleasure and happiness in stuff that can only bring a temporary fix until the next lie consumes our desires.
My prayers have rested on two partial verses of Scripture:
All Scripture is God breathed.
For the Word of God is living and active.
Breathed and Living and Active… LOVE. Oh Holy God… How are we not consumed by your love?
Far to often Christians will fall into and are consumed themselves by the walls of church, and fail to be the breath that is living and active.
We are His Body the Church. Christ in command of his body, uses us to breath and be active. Christ commands us to Love…
When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by Glory…And I realize just how beautiful you are, and how great your affection is for me…. David Crowder Band.
God’s glorious love and affection should overshadow the lies of the world and consume our action as the Body of His Son. That love affection is breathed through His body being the Church we are commanded to be.
We the people who form the Body of Christ are to be what God breathed as living and active. We are to be consumed by God’s love and set in motion to bring that breath of love to others. To bring that living and active Christ to those who are consumed by the lies of the world.
Love should be what occupies us and what consumes our every breath, to live and act as Christ.
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