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Perfect Love, 27JULY

I promised myself that if I wrote during bible school that I wouldn’t send them out until next week… But I changed my mind… I love this piece… Called “Perfect Love” below… I love God’s love…

I had this on my mind at 530am… Couldn’t shake it, had to write it… I know that I am not perfect and actually embrace my “wing it” ability too much…
But God loves me anyway…

It was such a blessed VBS day that I can’t even begin to write about it… And I don’t have to because I witnessed “God will provide” to 175+ people and then another 2 dozen at the homeless dinner… And like 300 on Facebook…

My favorite yapping at the homeless dinner was with Sir Bruce, singing songs, talking TV shows, and just kicking back to absorb his energy level when he is so much worse off than me… Better conversation with him then some regular ole people I know… I helped him write, he traced lines I dotted and we made a VBS mountain together… Free flowing fun conversation, no strings attached… another one was at church Sunday, I sat in the back with a brain damaged man… he was telling me about Jesus… Perfect when I am in that chatting mood, which is where I am right now… Which is how I always was… Chatting with no strings attached…

Perfect Love 27 JULY
God called me – why THIS timing is not mine to know – but God waited until I was ready and he waited until he saw that now is the tipping point between what I wanted to do in life and what HE wants me to do in life…  Luckily for me – those tasks were not all that different…  at least as far as I interpret God so far… It tickles me to know that God loves me SO MUCH that he just wants me to be me….

God called me to use my skills and my vast toolbox of physical and psychological learnings… God certainly wants me to use my smile and silly ways – God certainly wants me to use my organizational skills.. God certainly wants me to use my reach to touch people’s lives for the better…  But God wants me to channel those skills through HIS plan, NOT mine.  God knows I am NOT perfect and that i strive NOT to be…  God wants me to do the best I can with the time I have and the tools and circumstances…  He will place my work right in front of me every day if I just pay attention…

Do I have a perfect life?  no way…  not then and not now…  do I have perfect anything?  NOPE – never did and never will!  Should i have/be perfection? Nope, except  ONLY in ONE thing… LOVE…

Jesus came to earth to show us PERFECT LOVE… Jesus came to show us to not judge…  to care for people…  to become right with God and SIN NO MORE…  but Perfection?  LOVE is what should be PERFECT in Jesus’ eyes… It is my opinion that you are to do the best you can in everything else – but try to LOVE perfectly…

What does PERFECT LOVE mean?  it means you and I have a LONG road ahead of us…  we are tough cookies to crumble…  we have put up a fight for a long time to dislike and judge and push our agendas…  we confuse corrective actions and love… yes we do need to push ourselves, right our wrongs, and complete ourselves… and we do sometimes feel the need to teach others to be better at whatever God calls them to do… but we also have to accept people as they are and know that God is working in parallel wit them…  and YES we need to maximize our time doing all this with the short time we have here on this imperfect earth (even the earth is not perfectly rounded).

I do feel that it is important to take a step back and appreciate the tools in others which will help achieve this striving towards perfect LOVE. As leaders we need to draw upon peoples strengths, and reach people to effect good change…  we need to examine our toolboxes too – we need to say “How can I deal with this situation and these people?”

Perfect LOVE is only obtained thru Jesus filtering of our hearts and Jesus filtering of our mouths… God is patient with us, he made us and he knows we have become human sinners, he knows our motives before we act and speak – he knows all…

We will do our best to please Him…

We will do our best to perfect ourselves in all aspects of our lives… but ONLY to the glory of God… ONLY to please God and not please ourselves…

We will do our best to PERFECTLY LOVE…
We will find that GOD loves us perfectly, teaches us perfect through Jesus, and moves and molds us through the Holy Spirit…
We will find human Jesus in our human selves and share HIS LOVE…

JESUS is LOVE…
JESUS is PERFECT…
PERFECT is LOVE…