Choosing

Can you remember ever stepping into an overwhelming, unseen, delicious aroma? That draws you backwards into your past, and a beautiful memory floods your soul? No matter where I am in the world ...when the lovely scent of wild honeysuckle captures my senses, I am no longer moved by the world and its challenging circumstances. But I am the little girl child in my Aunt Jessie's backyard. Being caught up in the currents of a warm breeze on her old wooden swing, partaking of the sweet nectar of honeysuckle flowers, that hung on her modest white picket fence one moment before. Now in my small hands and on my tongue! So delicious, my sweet memory!

There is something extraordinary about our masterfully created bodies of flesh. Our veracious senses with all their intricate details. I marvel at cellular memory that is utterly unfathomable to me.

For years I've been aware of the power of my flesh. The soulish realm, the power in what I give my thoughts to, and how these things can linger. The power of our spoken words and what we have given our strengths to, good or not so good. Reasoning and wrestling in the mind with my heart exposed, I walk out my daily life knowing I am not my own possession, and this is my sounding board.

You know? Broken and yet loved! I confess with my mouth wide open, "Jesus is Lord," by the power of the Holy Spirit inside of me. I confess I love Him beyond my understanding, knowing there is more to be had of Him! Knowing there is much He asks of me! And me being so imperfect. Chastised by His love for me, I examine my intentions. Human... I look for humanity. I hear His voice… "They misunderstood ME...but I understand YOU." GOD is conscience of us!

To grasp this, even if it's in part, the beauty and power that has been loosed in us! Us being made in the image of God..the likeness of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

HE thinks with His heart wide open… Oh that they would return to ME their first love! ( Revelation 2:4 ) His Word is extraordinary, His thoughts are expressed, we hear them, we reason, and we are conscious, we have tasted substance and see the reality that has been given to us His children... and we choose! Shall we give HIM GLORY and walk by the Spirit?  We who have smelt His fragrance and tasted HIM the BREAD of LIFE! We know Him…like cellular memory in our bodies, the Spirit of God calls out to the Spirit of God INSIDE US! He beckons us upward…to commune with HIM! We remember and feel it again and again the moment HE touched our hearts! We knowledge and see it! I am my Beloveds and HE IS MINE!

Life on this Earth isn't easy! He KNOWS! Forty days, FORTY DAYS  in the desert of testing! NOT one thing surprises HIM…NOT ONE THING! We LOOK and we SEE!  HE gives us NO backlashes... but the flesh of His OWN BACK! HIS LOVE THAT BLED FOR US!

CONSCIECE of this, we feel it! We carry it daily… the painful, beautiful Cross of Christ Jesus,  CHOOSING …..WE CHOOSE TO  LOVE, LOVE HIM and........ each OTHER and even ourselves!

Words of Life:  1 samuel 16:7, Psalm 139, Hebrews 2, John 6: 32-40, 1 Peter 1:22-25