I can't live where I'm not! I need to live where I am each day...owning my reality. WHY? Because that is where God is and that is where I meet HIM! He is the I AM in my "right here, right now!"
After reflecting along these lines for awhile, another quote from the list got me:
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’ Eckhart Tolle
Is that what is disturbing my sleep lately? I'm fighting against my own life! How many times have I "preached" against this very thing to others?
So what did I do? I chose to receive the truth the Lord was revealing. "Jan, you need to be fully HERE!"
So here I am in Ohio...not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. I'm meeting the Lord in my "here" and receiving at His hand "this day, this bread" as the Lord's prayer says.
What about you? What is the life you have? Is it the one you are embracing, or are you reaching out for another...which is not really your life "right here, right now" at all?
Why not do what the Lord led me to do this morning? Agree with Him, and then list your life and give thanks for each and every part of it by name, the good and the hard.
Then keep on adding to the list each day...till that eternal day when you see Him face to face, when He says, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord!"
"Come on home...to a perfect place, a place you never dreamed possible!"
I looked again and could hardly believe my eyes. Everything above me was new. Everything below me was new. Everything around me was new because the heaven and earth that had been passed away, and the sea was gone, completely.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride on her wedding day, adorned for her husband and for His eyes only.
And I heard a great voice, coming from the throne.
See, the home of God is with His people. He will live among them; They will be His people, And God Himself will be with them.
Revelation 21:1-3 VOICE
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