If you think of it, it's kinda like how us people behave. We people like the comfy, warm mush of familiarity. It seems that it's always been in our nature, we were shaped by God inside the warmth of our mothers wombs...
Isaiah 44:2 Thus says the Lord, Who made you and formed you from the womb, Who will help you: Fear not, O Jacob, My servant, and you Jeshurun [the upright one--applied to Israel as a type of the Messiah], whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He Who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, Who made all things, Who alone stretched out the heavens, Who spread out the earth by Myself [who was with Me]?
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
So then we are born and spend the first lot of years of our lives surrounded by the security and protection of our family. God created family, and community, after all the trinity depicts family and community. So anyways, as we move on in age, the primal bond to family and community remains as an unmovable foundation in our lives. Family becomes the familiar environment in our lives hahaha I just noticed how those two words have the same roots. It's safe, warm, and protects us from the injustices of the outside world....
Now that's all well and dandy, but how does this have anything to do with my significant blogging?!
Well we as people are called to be the light of the world and not to remain hidden, check these verses out:
Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
15Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.
16Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.
Ooh! so it sounds to me that although family is good, and community is good, we shouldn't be hiding, shying away and being kept protected away from the world, we should be shining our light and spreading the news on who we are!And who does Jesus say we are we?
John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing
John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
How encouraging! Being a child of the one who created the Universe! Being Connected to him, and being Jesus' friend.
I guess if you knew that you knew that you knew you were this person and you lived it a breathed it, you'd be a pretty bright person hahaha everyone would wanna know who you are and what you think. If you don't believe in Jesus then imagine being friends with Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Superman and Martin Luther King rolled up in one AND THEN SOME! Note that none of these guys created the world or saved man kind from Hell... but hey everyone would still wanna know who you are, what you think and what makes you so special to be rubbing shoulders with with this superduper unit of a person!
SO! Let's bring this back to blogging. So it all starts because my thoughts are shy and are afraid to come out probably coz they're scared they won't make sense to anyone... But lo and behold, we're all fearfully and wonderfully made
Psalm 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
So no need to be shy my I say to my timid thoughts:
2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
SO! My dear intimate and significant thoughts, compose yourself and know that you are called for a greater purpose than loafing around in my headspace! There's a much bigger world out there!
