ok so it's been more than a week since i last wrote anything but it feels like it's been about a year. in this past week i have experienced more freedom in Christ, I have experienced the gospel aka the great glad news that makes a man leap for joy (that's the old english definition according to malcolm smith) aka the saving power to those who ARE believing. Wow how powerful is the gospel??!! As I am being transformed moment by moment and my mind lines up with this powerful truth that Christ is in me, the gospel is great enough and deep enough to be just as powerful all over again. I need to hear it over and over- that's so cool that God made it that way! I can truly say that I am not the same now as I was this morning! HE is transforming me from glory to glory by feeding me truth but also because the PERSON of Jesus Christ lives IN and THROUGH me. IN meaning He defines me. I am defined from the inside out. My identity is my true self and my true self wants to obey God. Christ IN me gives me the power to do so. I am so thankful to be united with this man who cherishes me, who calls me righteous and precious and beloved. I could spend all summer just pondering my identity. He has been so faithful to show me, in the lovely words of Beyonce' Knowles:

...Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feelin and my pride is the one to blame
Cause I know i don't understand
Just how your love can do what No One else can...

Got me lookin so crazy right now
Your love's got me looking so crazy right now
Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin so crazy right now...
Your kiss got me hopin you'll save me right now...

It doesn't take much for God to speak to us- He is the creator of all things and is in all things pursuing us with his message of unconditional love and acceptance: Needs that He made and placed in us that only He can meet. Beyonce has the human race pinned when she says that her "price is the one to blame." I know my pride/my twisted thinking that I could meet my needs for love prevent me from fully receiving what God so intensely wants me to have: His unconditional love. But it's so true that NO ONE ELSE can do what He can do. NO one No thing is better than God himself, and He will allow much to happen to us to bring us to the end of our own attempts at finding love to convince us that HE is crazy about US! and only HE can fulfill us.

Yet, we pursue lesser lovers: we all have these idols and believe that we can do a better job than Father in meeting these God-shaped needs. The LIE? I can be as God (my own God/Lord of my Ring or my life as Bill Gillham calls it) and it becomes ingrained in us and we learn to survive in this world of iniquities (iniquities literally means twisted thoughts). YEs, satan takes truth and twists it and God came to shatter that junk so that we can be free. Free from religion and the law. He allowed us to die with Him so that HE could marry us! We are no longer married to the stone-cold Mr Law but are married to Jesus! Mr GRACE himself! We can rest in his love for us and are motivated to served him because he places no law on us. His yoke is easy and his burden is so very light and we are free to dance the steps of our choice because we are married to a man who wants US. (Juan Carlos Ortiz- Liberated in the Beloved) Not our performance but our lives and our hearts so that He can be in relationship, crazy in love with us. I am so glad to be joined as one with Jesus, existing in the reality of His life. I have much more to share so come back for more :) I cant wait to break down all the truths and experiences that He is using to transform me in a powerful way.

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