What do you believe?

What do you believe? Your beliefs and belief system can hold you captive. The Song of Solomon talks about the beloved coming leaping and skipping upon the mountains... and about flowers appearing...etc. You have a part to play, you can stay locked up inside your house and miss the sunshine and all the joy that the seasons bring, just like you can choose to stay locked up in your belef system and miss the SONshine. Sometimes, I have to join the Psalmist and say like in does in Chapter 86 verse 3 "Rejoice the soul of your servant," Hey God, I need you to intervene in my life and cause my soul to rejoice; grant your grace in such measure that I begin to rejoice in "my maker". God come and overwhelm me body, soul and spirt with YOUR goodness. Cause your goodness to pass before my eyes that I might rejoice in you. Later down in verse 11 it says "unite my heart to fear your Name" gather the fragments of my heart, oh God, and cause me to know you will perform the very things you have put your name to. Our hearts are fragmented, we need the Holy Spirit to run a defrag program on us. So that we begin to rule and reign from the vantage point of Heaven! Defrag programs keep the necessary operational files and move out the files that are damaged, unnecessary, and causing gliches. Song of Solomon 2:8-13
8. The voice of my beloved! Behold he comes Leaping upon the mountains, skipping on the hills. 9. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall; HE is looking through the windows, gazing through the lattice. 10. My beloved spoke and said to me: "Rise up, my love, my fair one and come away. 11. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. 12. Flowers appear on the earth: The time of singing has come and the voice of the turtledoe is heard in our land. 13. The fig puts forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Rise up, my love, my fair one and come away! WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? Psalm 104:1 says Praise the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. WHAT FILLS YOU WITH WONDER? New life tends to render me speechless, which is why I love the wonder of sping. Tulips, hyacinths and irises press through hard cold clumps of earth in resurrection wonder. Baby robins show up wide-eyed with hungry chirps in anticipation of the worm the momma bird is bringing. Even the sun hovers longer, not wanting to miss the unfolding of a new season. Our peek-a-boo glimpses of God fill us with a sense of divine reality, like a preview of things to come. We are promised that one day the veil will be lifted from our eyes and we will see the Lord face to face. Imagine that! Try as I might it is difficult to grasp that kind of holy revelation. But until the day when the mysterious becomes known, God bestows us with encounters in which for a moment we are aware that we are on holy ground. Speaking of Holy Ground, isn't all of the earth God's territory? All we know of creation is the Lords. Therefore, each step we take is on holy land, which means we are all and each one individually on a sacred journey. Sometimes this is hard to remember when we are struggling up a craggy mountain, our shins raw and our hands bleeding. Then we thrust our bruised bodies onto the moutaintop, pull ourselves upright and see the view...the wondrous view. The very sight God has prepared for us to see. In this season, let us run, walk and tiptoe if necessary barefooted (in total reverence and awe) but totally aware that we are on Holy Ground. IT is not a particular place; IT is an attitude of divine assignment. Whether we are planting gardens, flipping pancakes, racing to a forty hour a week job, cleaning the church, or participating on the worship team may we be tuned into the wonder of it all. Is it any wonder that God has a plan for us? NO! HIS plan has been set from the beginning with us in mind. Praise God! Be Blessed. I will try to be more faithful to blog on a regular basis.