The Mother’s Heart

How many of you are aware that Father God is doing a whole new thing in the world right here around us, and everywhere that we do not see?

An “awakening” if you will. I want to tell you about a fairly new book, that is becoming the most widely read book throughout Christendom and the world. It is highly controversial.

The saddest thing to me is how many people are judging this book, without ever reading it. Pretty typical of closed off religious minds, eh?

There are many concepts that modern Christians have been taught and now believe, but these concepts are just a few hundred of years old. Starting with the King James version of the Bible being created – to be exact.

Rob Bell challenges some of these concepts in his latest book “Love Wins – A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.”

I want to share a few thoughts directly from the book’s cover.

“Millions of Christians have struggled how to reconcile God’s love and God’s judgement. Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to Heaven and EVERYONE to suffer forever in Hell?  Is this acceptable to God? And how is this “good news”?

Troubling questions – so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them.  Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church (and friends) if they ask them out loud.

But what if these questions trouble us for good reason?

What if the story of heaven and hell that we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible (all original manuscripts before 1600s) teaches?

What if, what Jesus meant by Heaven, Hell and Salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them?

What if it is God Himself that wants us to face these questions?”

Would you even be open to questioning or considering anything different than what you have been taught?

“The result is that the “Good News” is really GOOD and much, much better than we ever imagined!

” “Love Wins” is a bold, prophetic and poetic masterpiece.  I don’t know any writer who expresses the inexpressible love of God as powerfully and as beautifully as Rob Bell!

Many will disagree with some of Rob’s perspectives, but NO ONE WHO SERIOUSLY ENGAGES THIS BOOK WILL PUT IT DOWN UNCHANGED.

A must read book!”  Greg Boyd – Senior Pastor and author of “The myth of a Christian nation.”

Now, if you still aren’t sure you  want to read this little book, I encourage you to read my next blog post, right below this one, on “Destroying the Little Boxes”.

Don’t be afraid. Your God is big enough to stand the test of all Truth.  He will prevail. With, or without our agreement or consent.  Truth does not need consensus.  Could God be bigger, greater and more loving than you have ever possibly imagined or been told your whole life?

Maybe?  I, personally, am so relived that HE IS NOT AS SMALL AS OUR LITTLE BOXES that we create for Him.

I heard a man say the other night, that the full revelation has not been given to man on this entire subject yet….selah.

God reveals bits and pieces of Himself, throughout the ages, as He chooses. Never be afraid to ask real questions and put them before Him, as you seek Wisdom and Truth.

It will come…….I can promise…..if it is really is Truth you are seeking.

EXCITING TIMES!!!

PS.  I most humbly submit this to you  – I don’t even begin to think I have all of the answers.  I used to in the past.  For most of my life, I piously thought that I had it all clearly figured out.  I have been humbled and broken, and now know, above all, that I can not even begin to wrap my little mind around God and all of His thoughts and ways.   I have learned that “God (and all of Heaven) resist the proud and embrace the humble.”  I am on a genuine pursuit of Truth, and am more convinced than ever of the inconceivable love of God and His total heart for reconciliation.

As Jesus said in John 12 – “He did not come to judge the world, but to save it.”   That, I believe, is His bottom line!

I invite you to pray and ask the Father to begin to reveal to you – the difference between living from/in the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

My heart breaks tonight – and I weep – for my brothers and sisters all around me – who are so locked up in their own little boxes.

Convinced their way is right – on a big scale – as in their belief system – down to all the little things they do. They are right, and even their spouse and closest loved ones are wrong and don’t see things right (their way).

God creates us to be free – free to love – Him, one another and ourselves. Free to fly – in our souls – not to be locked down. Judgements of any sort – lock us down – and the people that we judge.

Every time we choose love we are set free – to soar and live – as free as a bird. Our souls will soar to heights and dive depths never before known to us. Love EMPOWERS flight and freedom!

Judgement imprisons – every time. Locking our own souls up, even worse than those we judge.

To judge another is to be vexed and embrace anxst in one’s own soul – that God never intended man to live with. It is not our responsibility to fix each other or figure out another’s life or destiny or what they should be doing differently.

Does anyone really believe he has it ALL figured out yet in his own life.

Pity to that person…..

Life and God are both so deliciously beyond our ability to grasp and box in – that one of our greatest delights – in this human journey – is the privilege of learning and growing – every day that you are given life!

To relinquish that gift… is to die.

Don’t lock yourself into a little box, thinking in small and petty ways. (hint that you are there – the thoughts you are having make you feel yucky.)

To think openly………and to love hugely…….is to be one with God – bigger than life.

One of my all time favorite poet-philosophers, Kahlil Gibran, said “Would that you seek the Father, as the brook seeks the sea.” As we seek our source and return to Him at every turn – there is no limitation or end to the richness of all He longs to give you. The love, the grace the forgiveness that is soo beyond us – you may only find in Him. But to “live in Him” is to grow every single day, in all ways, beyond our own human limitations.

Gibran also said, “The greatest teaching of Christ was the Kingdom of Heaven and THAT IS WITHIN YOU.” Live like it…..and you will love your life, AND…..all those around you who are so hard to love.

I challenge you to pray this pray with me – over this new year.

Father God, Please show us all the ways we lock You up, and each other, and ourselves in these tight little limiting boxes, that are not at all of You. Lead each of us in Truth that sets us free, that we may set others free – even as you came “THAT WE MIGHT BE FREE INDEED!” Teach us to love like you do Lord, that our lives would KNOW YOUR LOVE. May we say yes, yes and YES to all that you want to shake up and do in our lives, with us individually and through our lives.

We are not our own, we are Your children. LIVE FULLY LORD – IN AND THROUGH US!

We can’t do this on our own Lord. But we give You permission – as our God and invite you to truly have Your way in our lives.

So be it! in the Holy name of Jesus!!