I am not much of
a fighter, never have been. I hate pain. But I hear the Lord saying, “Will you
fight for love? Will you wrestle with anything to obtain and hold onto love?
Will you come to the place in your soul where you are so dissatisfied with it
that you know the only way through is to devote your whole being to the cause
of love? It is My cause, you know.”
I was watching a
singer rehearse for a performance last night and the coach said, “You are too
cerebral. Let go. The moment you start to judge how your performance is doing
in your head as you are singing you’ve lost it.” Wow. That is so true.
The moment we
start thinking rather than yielding to that which is within we lose it. In
sports it’s called choking. You hear all the time, “He had it, but he choked.”
I’ve done that more times than I care to remember.
To yield or not
to yield that is the question. How do we let go? Let go of fear. Fear of
failure. Fear of making a fool of yourself. Fear of losing friends. Fear of
being judged. It is only perfect love that casts out fear.
If you are a
believer, as I suspect you are, you must come to know that you were borne by of
perfect love to be placed into and become one with perfect love. Reckon that
old man of the flesh, of the world, dead in Christ. The old man can’t live in
there anyway because he was dead the moment he entered this world, totally
separated from Life.
But love came
and love conquered the death you were in and made you alive in Him just as it
was predestined and now you are being made aware of who you really were always
and forever meant to be. More than a conqueror!
Sure it’s going
to be a series of battles but each one belongs to the Lord of love and that
love, that unconditional from above love that never, no never can fail. So
enter the fray.
Yep, love came
one day. He came to stay. He said, “I ain’t going away”. So get over your old self,
say goodbye to it once and for all and embrace the new completed in love you
and love somebody!
