I am a person who values words with weight. Words with weight are those words that pierce deep into the soul. They are heart felt and of the utmost importance to your soul when spoken. Words that pierce my soul and hold weight look like these, I love you. I don’t take this phrase lightly. I don’t just toss out those words unless I mean it. I treasure words such as trust, faithfulness, value, gentleness, best interest…. Those are my top if I were to choose.
While reading in Acts I have been pierced again by words with weight. I mean what words in scripture don’t bare weight right! In Acts I have found echoing words. Words that move me to believe, think deeply about my life and what it looks like, to consider what He thinks about me, and to watch how I fear and breath….
“For in Him we live and move and have our being.”
In HIM I live. Jesus claims to be the life. So that must mean that without Him, I am lifeless. There are many ways I have sought out life outside of Him. I am sure that there are ways that are still wearing masks in me. Life and being…these are words of freedom to me. But I still ask myself the questions, does my life mirror life in Him? Do people see Him in me? For me, there is a difference between baring fruit and mirroring my king. Magnifying Him is the desire of my heart. I crave a life that looks like Him. I crave being the mistaken identity of Him.
To move and have my being. I rest in the peace of these words. Here I am free. This is my whole life. I desire for my whole life to be seen as me living and moving and having my being in Him.
Jami Smith writes, “I lay down every king I’ve crowned above you. I know you are Holy. I want to give you the glory you deserve.”
Lord make your life out of me so that all I’m left with is to live and move and have my being in you.
Where are you crowns?
i hope you hear these weighty words: i love you. i miss you so much it hurts. and i want you in my life for life.
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“i lay down every king i’ve crowned above You” – i have a lot of misplaced crowns, including some on my own fears and weaknesses. as twisted as that sounds, i’ve elevated them over Christ by assuming they’re more powerful than He is. woah. that’s a weighty realization.
[just came by to say i love you!]
Reading this made me realize…I have given myself a crown that I don’t want to wear any longer.
Thank you so much for reading some of my blog! i have seen you at the amazing grit. I hear ya on the crowns. something to wrestle with. what kinda crowns you got?
You have written how we all would be, apart from Jesus.
Lifeless…. dead people, walking on the earth…. graveclothes dragging behind….
“Father, forgive me!!! …..for the crowns…..
seen, and unseen…..”
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