Meant To Live

This morning, I set in a living room of a friends house reflecting on the paths that I have taken in life and the paths that now lay in front of me. I have been made humbled by the grace and love of our God. He has taught me many lessons in the past few months. Lessons that I will never forget as long as I live on this earth. This morning I have been reading Ephesians, which is where my church is currently teaching from on Sunday. This book always blesses me everytime that I read it. I ALWAYS find something new. I just wanted to share from my heart this morning, the insight that the Holy Spirit has given to me. I have been reading Ephesians 2.

"1-6It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah."

The part that really got to me in this passage was the part that says,"You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience." Wow. That is the truth in a nut shell. I personally am guilty of this. I think we all are in a way. This world that we live in can have a strong influence on how we live our lives. It can tell us how to dress, how to talk, and what is "cool" and "not cool". For some time now I have found myself being a people pleaser. I wanted EVERYONE to like me. At times I would tell people what they wanted to hear from the world standards to make myself seem cool or to impress man. This made me stumble time after time after time. NOW, its a completely different story. I have started to live for one reason and one alone. TO PLEASE MY HEAVENLY FATHER! The one who determines my steps and who is a light unto my path that I find myself walking. NO MAN will determine who I am anymore. I am a SAINT, and heir to the Kingdom of God. It says further in this chapter that God tore down the walls that once sperated us from his presence and he then took us and seated us next to Him (with Christ) in the heavenly place. This brings tears to my eyes. I feel like for once in my life I have FULLY grasped the power and the grace of our God. Even in my filth I am seated at His right hand. Thats how close we are. Close enough to where he doesnt have to shout to get our attention, He only has to wisper in our ear.

I once told a friend of mine who is saved, that distance from God is only an illusion that the satan can paint. Honestly, His love never fails, never gives up and never runs out on us. He is with us in the good times and the bad. The world will let us down every time. But God never will. We are the only ones that can put limits on Him and on ourselves. In God's life that he brings, THERE ARE NO LIMITS!! I want to live the amazing life, that the creator of life, has for me. Not what this world, who doesn't know anything about living, tells me how to live. Thats like building a swingset and reading the instructions on how to buld a grill. I want to follow the instructions from the person in charge of buliding that swingset. So I can have it in its FULLESt.

I encourage all of you to ask God to reveal to you, just how close he is. The response that he gives you might just blow your mind! Be blessed!! And Live with NO limits!

Aaron