As it is expected, after the storm ceases we’re waiting for the rainbow in the horizon and as it is also usual, for the overwhelming peace to come. I look at Jesus in that boat [Mat. 8:24] and it was so close to sinking, but interestingly, my hero was sleeping! (Or how in the Greek lexicon says: “euphemistically, to be dead.” B.)
Resting. Confident. Owning something. His mind.
“He knew something else… something that often times we ignore.”
In church I was told that was going to find my identity in God. In this season the Father upgraded the whole concept, opening my eyes to a greater reality:
“Once I find who God is in me, my identity will be birthed out of it.”
Now, I find myself walking in confidence that the Father does SPEAKS and that every word that comes out of his heart is filled with a desire for what’s best for us. After accepting and receiving those amazing and tender words from the Father I noticed an open invitation to walk in the newness of Re-learning what life is. Honestly, it was the most conflicted season in my life.
I was conflicted because my mind is so accustomed to trying to find what is reasonable, what is tangible, what we call “real” and God was asking me to do something different and not tangible or by the world’s standards, reasonable.
As this was happening, Jonathan, our leader here at the base, asked us to start to really accept the invitation from the Father to walk in this process to be polished/molded into Christ minded sons and daughters. The whole thing was so new to me and so strange that I ran back to where I felt “safe”.
“But I have walked so far now, it is not time to run, it is not time to hide, it is time to put to death all the paradigms, the fear of the unknown, to face the reality that my life is not what the Father has desired for us to live.”
Why the fear?
Because stupid lies of the enemy have confused me so much that now is almost impossible to see it. It’s not about doing good or bad. It’s not about choosing right or wrong.
It’s about choosing LIFE.
[1rst. Corinthians 15:46’58]
Sometimes my life might look like a sad, tempestuous, full of danger and dismal story of a boat that is sinking in the middle of a ranging ocean with an awful storm right above my head. But actually, the heart of the Father for this life of mine is to see his grace and love covering every single part of me and to speak to hearts how real he is. That we are altogether going to be raised up and built up as mature sons and daughters of a living God. And that WE ARE going to MAKE IT to the other side.
That was the confidence Jesus had while he was in that boat, he knew that he was walking on the will of the Father and that God was with him in the midst of that storm.
As we stay faithful to the process we learn to love, to trust, and to rest.
[Ref.Jn. 14:27]
– We are in his hands –
“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.”
– Romans 8:19 –
P.S. Good stuff is coming in part IV.
