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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Revision of Dr. Suess Quote!

Ok, OK..... I am now feeling that the Holy Spirit is convicting me of the quote that I first wrote about & posted on my Face book page. I know a lot of you agreed with the quote & so did I at first, and I guess it really is the way you look at it from a biblical stance. (so some of you might have already looked at it this way)

First off let me say this, I really liked this quote because of what I was writting about in my first blog entry about caring about what people think, can hold a lot of us back from walking into the calling Christ has for each one of us, and hold us back from speaking what He has imparted to us.

With that said.... I think from a Christian stand point the quote should have said " Be who God created you to be & walk into the calling God placed on You, because those who mind don't understand, and those who understand don't mind."

Now, I know some of you might say, "you are analizing this way too much" , and maybe I am, but because I do care deeply about people, I can't just say "Be who you are, say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Because truthfully we do matter ecspecially to God, even if we disagree with how someone is acting or what they might be saying.

Truthfully we should be who we are (in accordance to what God created us to be) and we should say what we feel (also in accordance with how the Holy Spirit prompts us), but I know there are many circumstances in my life that I have wanted to say what I felt about a particular matter, but didn't, because even though I knew that I was feeling soooo strongly & passionatly about a certain matter, I knew that some of what I was feeling was coming from me just being a human "born into sin".

Ecspecially us women who many of times, speak out of feelings (because as women we Feel Deeply!!!) but sometimes those feelings as strong as they might be, are not being prompted by the Holy spirit, they are coming from an emotion or certain insecurities, because if we are all thruthful with ourselves, we do sometimes say things upon an emotion or an insecurity that we might be dealing with.

I also think sometimes what we are feeling can simply be just that, a feeling, and not the truth per say. So if we all went around speeking what we felt, and then saying if someone had a problem with it, then they didn't matter.......I personally feel like would be an injustice and not the "heart of God".

Ok, maybe that is way too deep, but just felt like I needed to restate what I was feeling about the quote and how I think it should have been stated & taken! (still love me some Dr. Suess though)! :)

Something to think about!!!

Today I heard something that just really got me thinking pretty hard about how we worship & what that means to us!

I hear so often (and I have been guilty of it many times), worship just wasn't that great, didn't really get anything out of it. Before, I would just think, well... maybe the Holy spirit isn't moving strong today, or maybe the worship team just wasn't on their game, etc... the excuses could go on & on!

But really we have to ask ourselves, what is worship? Worship isn't just a time on Sunday morning that we anticipate the Holy Spirit to move & we feel connected. Woship is an expression of our love & connection to Christ! If we go all week long looking forward to Sunday morning's worship so that we can feel connected to God & then don't feel connected, maybe the real question should be.... was I in relationship with Him this week, was I connecting to Him on my own? Was I worshiping Him everyday? Did I find time to just really talk & communicate with Him?

I know in the past their have been many Sunday mornings, or even just worship services that I just have felt disconnected & then their are other times that I feel like I just couldn't feel more connected, and because worship has been such a passion of mine & been such a big part of my life ever since I was a little girl, when I wasn't "feeling it" it was really discouraging to me.... I know sometimes I would look around and say to myslef, how is it that that person is at the same church, same worship time & is really connecting to worship & I am not feeling it at all????

But knowing that worship is sooooooo much more than just Sunday mornings, or just a "hear or their" thing, knowing that you have to make it an everyday thing, and when you do that no matter where you are or how good the worship time is, you should feel the connection & expression, because you yourself have been living it daily! (trust me I am preaching to myself hear as well) :)