My Dwelling

Welcome to my daily blog. My new home for my thoughts and my page to help spread God's word in this broken world we live in.

Press pause with me on our busy schedules and take a break. God is waiting for you with His arms open wide. He is ready to help you where you are. Sip your coffee or drink of choice and take a minute to really hear His word, and let it work in you. God loves you. Always has. Always will. You are His, and nothing can change that.

Colossians 3:16-17 says
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your heart. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through him."

The word of God moves me. It opens my hardened heart, and makes me see my own image reflected back at me and I don't always like what I see. This hardened and calloused world is tough and frequently his love gets lost in the fray.

When did caring for others become second to elevating ourselves? When did God's word become something we can pick and choose what is relevant to our lives, rather than hearing all He has to say. Why aren't our hearts breaking for the broken and our tears being shed for the lost? Like the shepherd who leaves his herd to find the one lost sheep because that one sheep is important, aren't we too supposed to search for that wandering stray?

I watch each day pass by in a blur and at the end, each night as I rest my weary head on my pillow, I wonder what I did that day to share God's love. Did I smile at a stranger? Did I hug my kids? Did I speak kind words or did I loosen my tongue to hatred? I can't be all things to all people. I can't do life all the time the way that God expects.....but God can!!!

He dwells in me. He lives here. I hollow out myself so that he can fill me up. I let him break my heart for the lost. I pray he challenges me and opens me to the dirty ways of this world. I don't want to be safe in my house. I want to be safe in the Lord. How can I be Christ's hands and feet in this world if I hide in my own comforts? What kind of Christian would I be if I sat sipping my coffee while my neighbor loses everything? A Christian that dwells only in their own relationship with God is not really a Christian at all are they?

Didn't God tell us that following Christ will be messy? We will be hated because they first hated Christ? Jesus never hated. He never boasted. He never took comfort in hiding in his own comforts. He came to this earth to get dirty, to be broken and to love the most unlovable. He charges us to follow in his path, to continue his work and to reach out to the lepers of our communities. I don't know about you, but I want Christ to dwell in me and I want to live God's love, not just read about it. I want to be the hands and feet of Christ and have my heart broken repeatedly because then and only then do I know that I am loving as Christ has loved me. Eternally. No strings attached.

Religion is not just a personal experience. Our lives were written for a purpose and each of us has something we can give to this world in the name of God. Let God in.