Come Sit at my Table - A Breakfast of Champions
Well folks, here it is... my heart poured out over these typed words from my computer to yours. Bringing things to light is how you grow. In light, there is always growth. We as the human race should strive to be whole, to be transparent with one another. Transparency means to be honest within your own heart. We live in a place of darkness, where we can so easily hide from our flaws and make it seem as though we are actually happy in this dark place. How devastating is that. Though to your surprise, you are not fooling anyone. Simply because everyone is doing the same thing. We all know the tricks and sly acts that are forced within humanity but this is where we can stop it.
In this life, we are called to love one another as we love ourselves. Let's take a moment and break that apart. To love one another as we love ourselves... we cannot love someone else without first loving our-self. I don't know about you, but it took me a couple of years to stumble across the self-love club. Once finding it though, I never looked back. To be known and loved by yourself is so extremely important and once this is completed with success then you can share the love that you have found with someone else that will be able to give you the same. We love because God first loved us. Without the love shown through Jesus' death, we would not know what love even is. Still we do not have the correct meaning of love, as human kind has taken it pulling and stretching at it's seams to create what WE think it is. Our thoughts are not His thoughts. Our ways are not His ways. Once we understand that we do not have a clue how to live this life, then we can begin to trust in the fact that God is sovereign and He will lead us to places that we never imagined possible.
To be unified together as one but still vastly diverse would be something beautiful. If everyone gave everything they had exceedingly no one would ever go without.
“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.””
As WM. Paul Young writes The Shack he illustrates this illusion that we, the human race, only know so much. In this excerpt everyone is present at the dinner table. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. They are discussing power and authority, regarding themselves, the trinity. The character, Papa, who is playing God in this book says this, "Humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that people could work or live together without someone being in charge." While the man, Mack, responds back in agreeance, "Every human institution that I can think of, from political to business, even down to marriage, is governed by this kind of thinking. It is the web of our social fabric." Jesus then responds with this, "It's the reason why experiencing true relationship is so difficult for you, Once you have a hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and enforcement of the rules, and then you end up with some kind of chain of command or a system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. You rarely see or experience relationship apart from power, Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you."
Of course for us this is difficult to grasp, as it states in the conversation but once we can understand the idea of God being 3-in-1 with no need for power or authority over one or the other, then we can begin to practice the same in our own lives. Relationships will flourish when this happens. We were meant for so much more but settled for much less. It might be too much to bring humanity together as a whole but better to strive for too much than too less.