What's It All About?

I guess it's the time of year that keeps making me struggle with sadness. I know what is going on...and what is coming up. Anyone who has been through SRA knows exactly what I am talking about.

However, I have a purpose and a calling...to love, honor and glorify my Creator. It is important that I not allow anything to interfere with that. All of my life contributes to that on some level...even my history. Without Him, I would have never survived.

I was blessed with a very real heart connection with Yeshua/Jesus at a very young age, so I had the comfort of that connection with Him through it all. I truly do not believe I would have survived it any other way. Without His help...without His presence and strength and protection...I would not be here.

Then again, I would be with Him in a far better place...which goes back to my calling and purpose. I was allowed to survive and live for a reason. Even if it is only as a testimony to the fact that He is real and got me through it...that is enough. However, I think there is more to it than that. I believe He wants me to reach out to others who have been through it...to encourage them in any way that I can.

I know there are some who would read this and get very angry, especially when I talk of protection. I understand...and I do want to address that issue...very soon. Should I forget, anyone reading this is welcome to comment on it or email me at the above address on my page to remind me.

Right now, though, I recognize that my purpose is not about me. It is about my Creator. He brought all this into existence for a reason. I am part of that reason. He wanted a people who would love Him...not by force as puppets who had no choice...but out of choice simply because of who He is.

He is the Creator. If for no other reason, He deserves to be loved and worshiped and glorified for that one. I know...again...there are some who will be angry at that, too, because they ascribe the evil and wickedness in this world to either an impotent God or an angry, unloving God. In reality, it all comes from the rebellion of humankind to live according to His ways. It was people who destroyed the perfect world He created with their rebellion.

Yet, knowing they would do that, He created us all anyway. Why? Love. The truth is, we have all messed up so badly...each of us in our own way...none of us is perfect...that we all deserve to be obliterated. He does not do that, though. Why? Love. He is giving us chance after chance to do things His way...to recognize how very broken and fallen we really are and turn to Him for help. Not help for our own purposes and heart desires, but real help...help to live according to the good ways He has laid out for us.

I am trying to find my way in all of that. How can I love Him more? How can I live my life in such a way as to glorify Him more? How can I live my life to help and love others more? See...I don't see life as being about me...but about Him. He is the Creator...I am merely the created. Yet, being merely the created...I am also the apple of His eye and the object of His love. All who are truly His children are.

Before I became His child, I was the object of His wrath. Clearly, though, He did not want it to be so. That is why He gave us His Son Yeshua/Jesus, so that, through what He did, we could move from being objects of wrath to being objects of love...as it was in the beginning.

People don't like the idea of an angry God. Well, I don't know about you, but I get angry when I see evil. If I had created a good creature, placed it in a beautiful perfect place, enjoyed sweet fellowship it, laid only one rule for it, and then had it turn and rebel against me, I think I would be very sad…and very angry at the evil behind that rebellion.

I don't see His wrath as being against me...but actually for me. He wants what is best for me...not what is evil. By rebelling, I am choosing evil. When Adam and Eve rebelled, they chose evil. Anything that goes against the loving, perfect Creator is evil. Anything that goes against one of His…goes against Him.

Yes…I see even His anger as a sign of His ultimate love.