A Life Today

Freedom!  I feel a bit more free lately.  Not because I’ve done anything.  It has been the Lord to free me.  Jesus said that his yoke is easy and burden light.  So what was the freedom that I have walked in lately?  It’s the knowing that I don’t have to do some routine or duty that I was never asked to do.  The only thing I’m asked to do is follow Jesus today.  I don’t need to live in the past nor live out my life in the future.  Just simply live in the present and live for him.  He asks me to love our neighbors and enemies alike.  He’s also my Father who I can fellowship with each and every moment of the day.

As an example, I’ll share one little nugget from my life.  The Lord put on my heart a certain area to minister.  After a time of praying and talking about it, the Lord opened the door to go.  Yet to be honest I haven’t completely enjoyed it.  The reason is that it became some task I had to perform.  In my mind I felt I had to commit to something and build something… you know, form a ministry.  That is far from what the Lord asked me to do.  He just asked me to go there.  What is it I’m to do there?  The answer is very simple - love people, and befriend them, and reveal the Love of the Father to them.  If they don’t want anything to do with me then I’m free to knock the dust off my feet and move on. 

I believe the Lord would want to bring us all into a more simple way of life.  Our lives should not be about performance, duty, and organizations, but one of a love relationship with our Father.  I will admit as a believer it’s easy to miss what it’s all about.  The days and years go by and if we are not careful we can find ourselves out of habit going to church.  That is not what it’s about at all.  We don’t go to church because we are the church.  We are the bride of Christ whom he is greatly in love with.  So as the church, yes, we will desire to connect with other believers and connect with Him.  This is something that doesn’t happen at a certain time of the week but today.  For there was one who once said, “today is the day of salvation.”

I know that I have not completely arrived yet.  I still fall captive to performing some religious duty.  I still think I have to form, organize, and set in motion something and then keep it going.  But little by little the Lord is lifting my yoke off and replacing it with the yoke he provides which is easy and light… and in that I find rest for my soul.