Memories in the Making

Life Mission: To live a love-filled outrageous life with no regrets, leading with passion and conviction, inspiring all those in my path, while unveiling my beauty and, in doing so, encouraging others to do the same.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

TO BE


This is in response to Austin's May 23rd blog. Once again moved by his experiences, I was posting a comment on his blog and was inspired to lengthen the comment into my own blog. So here it is...

Something I learned from Louie's History series came to mind while reading. God's name...as he tells us in the Old Testament..."I AM." I AM means "To be." And this is exactly the point. He was, he is, and he always will be. He calls us to be as well. Not infinite, not as it pertains to having no beginning and no end, but just "TO BE." To be his love and to be ourselves, exactly how God created us.

Upon the revelation of this concept about 10.5 months ago I was awestruck! So many things made sense. How about this, "Actions speak louder than words." Uh, yeah! So by being God's love we are being God to others since God is love. It's like when people say, "You may be the only Jesus someone ever sees." This is true. And by being God instead of verbalizing (preaching, cramming, defending) God we have way more impact on our world.

This was part of Jesus' purpose. Yes, ultimately he came to save us from death. However, God sent him to be God in the flesh.

To be God. To be the example. To be the savior, etc.

So my ultimate thought here is this: God created us in his image. A perfect, radiant, intriguing, awe-inspiringg, beautiful, creative, glorious (and the list goes on) image! So, wouldn't we BEST testify God and impact people by being all of these things? By being exactly who God made us!?!?!

Make no mistake about this, You are BEAUTIFUL!

1 Comments:

  • At 5/26/2006 11:25 AM, Blogger Beth said…

    I loved the History series!! Oh, how I miss Louie at 722 each week! What a privilege that was! Thanks for the reminder in your blog. Great words!

     

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