When We Believe the World's Lies... Jesus Cries

When we believe the world's lies... Jesus cries. He mourns the Separation of us from His Love and His Peace.

When we realize the futility of life on the world's terms we have begun our journey Home. His ways are superior to anything this world can devise! His ways lead to Life (Light)... the world's ways to death (darkness).

The victory of life over death is ours for the taking! Embrace life by embracing Him!

❤Not Just A Blonde

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

~John 10:10-11

Not Just A Blonde's Thoughts on Sin...

Sin isn't about breaking the rules, it's about playing the wrong game. With sin, you will never truly win.

When you choose sin over Spirit you choose darkness over Light.

Sin separates us from God and from feeling His Love. God never stops loving His Creation, however in sin we are unable to feel His Love upon us. In sin we may doubt God, but He is always there waiting for us to turn towards Him again.

By settling for a life of sin we accept trash in place of treasure! Within sin's grasp we are missing out on the richness that a life in alignment with Him can offer!

Sin wants us to believe it can replace God, but sin is a cruel lie. Sin eventually leaves us feeling anxious and alone.

Sin is death, Spirit is Life.

Sin is a choice to live outside His Perfect Plan... choosing our will over His own. We have the ability to choose pain over Peace. God calls us to Peace, however gives us the freedom to choose.

❤Not Just A Blonde

Life's Not Supposed to be Fair

"That's not fair!" is a phrase most parents hear hundreds, if not thousands of times as they raise their darling children. I remember myself as a young child feeling frustrated at the lack of fairness I experienced and saw all around me.

The lack of perceived fairness involved mostly meaningless transgressions. "Why did my sister get a new coat, but I just get hand-me-downs?" "His cookie has more chocolate chips in it!" "I worked harder, why didn't I win?" ...and such. Looking back I'm embarrassed at my small mindedness and lack of insight that in the BIG picture that adulthood brings. Now I see things such as this just do not matter.

However, I'm back to those feelings again today in lieu of the recent media coverage of a high profile case. This time the transgression a more serious offense. Murder. Taking the life of another. What could be more unfair than this? "It's just not fair!" Sigh. I don't understand it... not one bit. My heart breaks... and yet, I am reminded violent scenarios like this happen more than we like to think about. Many of our children and youth die too too young, be it by accident, illness or even abuse. Life is SO unfair.

This morning however the UC FB page placed some verses online for today's thought and meditation. I read the story of Cain killing his brother Abel and realized that God's version of Justice and ours are often very different.

"An eye for an eye" may sound extremely "fair" however God often has a much bigger vision. What to me seems unfair may to God provide a better form of justice... one that leads us to where He desires us to be.

When I speak up for what I believe to be "fair" and "right" I need to keep in mind that I often will see things very differently than God. He has a Heavenly perspective and it often conflicts with how we think things should be. We can't always understand His ways... and that's okay.

Life isn't fair. Life is more than having a spreadsheet of gives and gets that all equals out. Life is a gift from God with a greater purpose. Within that purpose God has a special plan for each of us... within this plan is the attainment of our better good.

So, I'm going to love my brothers & sisters... and pray for all who tragically lose children. I will let my feelings of anger, frustration and injustice go to God with faith He is in control. I'm going to let go of the need for things to be "fair" here on Earth with the knowledge God will always be more than fair as He has shown in the birth, life, death and resurrection of His Son Jesus. His generosity and grace towards us are like his Love for us... beyond measure!

God has promised to give us more than we could ever give in return ... and to me this is MORE than fair! Life isn't supposed to be fair... but is supposed to be lived with the knowledge that we have been blessed beyond what we can fathom by a God full of grace, full of hope, and full of Love for this broken world.

Fair enough?

Why DID Jesus Have to Die?

Every intelligent, independent thinking, God-seeking Christian has had to ask this question, even if it's pondering was brief... "Why did Jesus have to die?" Actually, being God in human form it's not so hard to understand he was going to die at some point, but the question is why that way? Why then? Actually, if Jesus is God why at all ?

Didn't God himself write the rule book? Doesn't God Himself know the ending to all stories, the victories to all the battles past, present & future? With the rule book in hand and the outcome determined... couldn't there be an easier way? Perhaps, but God chose this way... and if there is something I've begun to learn... it is: God knows best.

God asked someone else to sacrifice his son. For those not terribly familiar with the Bible, I'm referring to the Old Testament's Abraham who was asked to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac at God's instruction. Thankfully for Abraham, an angel of God spoke at the last moment and called the whole thing off. Lesson learned. But what lesson was that? That God would always come through in the end? God (being God) knew what was gonna happen... but Abraham didn't. I believe God wanted to show Abraham something that mere words could not. God wanted Abraham to know that no matter what He would come through for us in our darkest hour... when everything felt all wrong in the end everything would be all right.

But what about those times in our lives when everything is falling apart, when we are in our darkest hour? What about the times when we've lost our way, perhaps lost our job, our home, or at life's most devastating hour we've lost a loved one to death? How are we to cope if that precious loved one is our child? What about those times when our pain is so great that death itself seems like the better way? These questions can consume us... and envelop us in despair!

I believe that God answered these questions for us just as he did for Abraham. In the moments of our questioning He wants us to remember He will pull us through! He encourages us to look towards Jesus for His Answer. The story of His death and return to life is the perfect example of His Love. He promises us that all is not lost forever... after a time ALL will be restored, recovered, resolved, repaired and returned to Love.

Jesus didn't have to die for God's sake... but for ours! I believe God knew it was the best way, perhaps the only way to show us the way towards Home. He gave to us this ultimate gift as a wake-up call to a sleeping world entranced in their nightmares of separation, sin, and pain. Jesus died a horrific undeserving death to show us... prove to us that in the end He will always be there for us to pull us through towards our happy ending in Heaven. A Heaven where we will be reunited with those we've loved... where our wildest dreams will come true... and all wounds healed, where all that is lost will be found. Jesus lived and died to show us He is the Answer to all our fears... and that Love will conquer all.

❤God is Love is God.