Embrace the Within no. 133

“Stop showing your ‘Yeah, BUT’.”

I am called to love God, my neighbor, and my enemy. Love is doing the right thing by them according to the Will of God not according to my will or what I judge as right. I have spent plenty of time making my own judgments about what is right and what is good. And in all those times of making those judgments, I was rarely right. When I am right, it is only because the Spirit is moving into alignment with the Lord.

And a lot of the time, I was a “Yeah, BUT” Christian. I would hear something that didn’t align with my interpretation of how I thought things should go and immediately went from listening to defense. I was more than happy to attack anything that might destroy my narrative with a “Yeah, BUT”. And The Bible is a large book filled with lots of things that can be taken out of the bigger picture of love and compassion and mercy and justify any number of “Yeah, BUT”s.

And I need to get my “Yeah, BUT”s out of the way of His Way because I can’t serve two masters. I can’t serve my way and His Way. I can’t serve the world’s way and His Way. I can’t serve the state’s way and His Way. I can’t serve a system’s way and His Way. So, I had to choose which way it was going to be.

And every time I had a “Yeah, BUT” I was putting limitations on who God is. I need to stop setting limitations on God. I need to stop putting God in a bottle like He’s there to grant my wishes and prayers. God isn’t going to fit my ideas of who He is. I need to fit His ideas of who I am.

And I am seeing a lot of folks struggle with this ideology. Folks that are constantly making God into their image rather than letting God make them into His image. And a lot of that comes from failing to love God, my neighbor, and my enemy.

I need to spend a lot more time on love than I do on being right. I need to spend a lot more time on love than I do justifying myself. I need to spend a lot more time on loving God, my neighbor, and my enemy. And then, if I do those things, if you do those things, if we do love the right way, God’s Way, then, just maybe, then we might get our BUTs out of the way. I am so tired of seeing The Truth deflected by “Yeah, BUT”s when we can just as easily listen and pray and read and know His Truth rather than justifying our ways.

I love you. I forgive you. Have a blessed and abundant day!

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Personal Meditation No. 124

“Stop showing your BUT”

Embrace the Within

Folks like to say a lot of things and then add their BUT to it. I have been guilty of showing my BUT as well. I will talk about something on end and keep that thread going confidently and then throw my big BUT into the end of the conversation. Totally derailing what I had spent the time talking about prior just by dropping that BUT where it doesn’t belong.

I’m all for getting healthy BUT, I’m all for freedom BUT, I’m all for making my life better BUT . . . It’s a world full of BUTs. BUTs everywhere. And folks have no problem showing those BUTs all the time.

Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

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