CALLING
Called Me Higher, All the Sons and Daughters
Am I the only one got it into my head that being alive is about perfecting relationships and establishing business and nestling into a happy nest of comfy success?
The perfecting of a relationship and the establishing of a business are good things, but this song spoke to me how it is:
He's called us to live in Him, not in the happy nest, and the happy nest isn't the goal. The business is good and the relationship is precious -- but the nest isn't what we were made for. And sometimes the business and the relationship are all about nestling into the happy nest, instead of falling into God and making home in Him.
I'm asking myself now -- am I living for the happy nest, or to nestle into God? What do I ultimately want? Why do I ultimately want to perfect this relationship, to create this business, so on and on?
But I wanted a happy nest life.
Taking a bit of a dive into Thessalonians, it says it as if it were like any old fact in existence:
God, who called us into his own kingdom.
I want pain and blemish free neatly tied with a ribbon and meanwhile, our true calling stands.
God, who called us into his own kingdom.
This God, they are family, their names Father and Spirit and Son.
The story goes that they lived in communion, in abundance, the givers and joy-makers who one day created humanity to be a part of their family. Birthing us out of their beauty.
Humanity rejected Their call, and the Son reached right down into our dusty depths and put on humanity's bones and flesh and with a breaking heart, continued to call us into Their own kingdom.
Oh, and us, so temperamental about our lives being our own -- the Son stretched himself out and wrists dripping red, water rushing out,
He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. (2 Corinthians 1:15)
His death was our birth and His resurrection was our adoption.
Out of sheer generosity He put us in right standing with Himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where He always wanted us to be. (Romans 3)
The Spirit is in relationship with humanity. As we awaken, we become participants with the Spirit in the sweet awakening of a sleeping humanity,
as the dust still shifts, ever so slight,
in memory of His feet over the sand.
Am I the only one got it into my head that being alive is about perfecting relationships and establishing business and nestling into a happy nest of comfy success?
The perfecting of a relationship and the establishing of a business are good things, but this song spoke to me how it is:
He's called us to live in Him, not in the happy nest, and the happy nest isn't the goal. The business is good and the relationship is precious -- but the nest isn't what we were made for. And sometimes the business and the relationship are all about nestling into the happy nest, instead of falling into God and making home in Him.
I'm asking myself now -- am I living for the happy nest, or to nestle into God? What do I ultimately want? Why do I ultimately want to perfect this relationship, to create this business, so on and on?
But I wanted a happy nest life.
Taking a bit of a dive into Thessalonians, it says it as if it were like any old fact in existence:
God, who called us into his own kingdom.
I want pain and blemish free neatly tied with a ribbon and meanwhile, our true calling stands.
God, who called us into his own kingdom.
This God, they are family, their names Father and Spirit and Son.
The story goes that they lived in communion, in abundance, the givers and joy-makers who one day created humanity to be a part of their family. Birthing us out of their beauty.
Humanity rejected Their call, and the Son reached right down into our dusty depths and put on humanity's bones and flesh and with a breaking heart, continued to call us into Their own kingdom.
Oh, and us, so temperamental about our lives being our own -- the Son stretched himself out and wrists dripping red, water rushing out,
He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. (2 Corinthians 1:15)
His death was our birth and His resurrection was our adoption.
Out of sheer generosity He put us in right standing with Himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where He always wanted us to be. (Romans 3)
The Spirit is in relationship with humanity. As we awaken, we become participants with the Spirit in the sweet awakening of a sleeping humanity,
as the dust still shifts, ever so slight,
in memory of His feet over the sand.
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