There are some people born... whom God has chosen...placed into families... yet set apart. Even from a young age if they think back and remember moments that stand out where they never quite fit in... deep down they could sense the rejection or hostility from those around them. Some are born of the flesh yet... God has placed His Spirit within them and they feel they don’t belong... there is a deep longing for something else... What they are sensing is God seeking them out as one of His own.
We are eternal beings...there is the one self interacting within their life’s circumstances and there is another self within...God calls to this inner self and “engineers” our circumstances to activate this spiritual self within.
Each choice we make in response to God’s prodding determines which self lives... every time we respond in obedience to His call...we become more free...transient...spiritual...
If we choose to avoid His prodding to rise higher we become dense...more solid...our feet become clay...sunk in to this life... and we become immovable... immobile... to the spirit.
We can cause that very Spirit that first beckoned us to freedom to be grieved...and we become impenetrable to His Spirit... dead while we live... It’s a choice that we make in each circumstance that determines if we are of this world or the next.
Think of it this way. You were born to a set of parents from this great metropolitan place...and through circumstance you have ended up in the jungle. You know deep within you don’t fit in...somehow you have been separated and from deep within you feel that inner call home.
Too many who are lost in the jungle adapt to the native ways and rather than reach higher we become just like the natives until there is no trace within that makes us any different.
God expected us to make a difference to those around us to call others to see that difference within yet we make choices to keep ourselves comfortable in the jungle. We have forgotten the land from which we had come...
We lost the light like Adam in the garden when God calls we don’t respond. We solidify ourselves in this land by our avoidance of truth. We have become comfortable in the jungle.
Barbara Marcati
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