Brave Enough To Be Bliss

These are some of the most important questions we will ever ask. Everything depends on the answers because we cannot escape God. No matter how strongly we try to ignore Him, sooner or later reality forces us to deal with Him. And He holds all the power in our relationship, so — what is He like? The Holy Spirit tells us plainly: When we see Jesus, we see God. Jesus is God come down from heaven to be a human being, one of us — a real Man, full of grace and truth. Loving, teaching, healing, listening, suffering, dying, and rising again — this is God in action. God has come into the world to seek you out — to rescue you from the power of evil, and to make you His own beloved child forever.”

“It‘s not that I‘m so smart, it‘s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein

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And these are the exact words I woke up with and typed into my phone one morning with those questions above finally answered for myself.

I woke up in a boat with people, and tangled up in nets was a crocodile, but it was able to thrash about and there was a white T- shirt lying there as if to say give in, wear this, it’s fresh and clean, let me wipe all the sin, yours and others’ they put on you, let me take it all away and wipe you clean, make you brand new. All you have to do is throw in the white towel, surrender to me, let me love you like I’ve always been right here doing, but this time truly accept it. Let me take away all the pain and hurt and ugliness from you. Just give it to me now, you’ve held onto it all long enough. Let me unburden you from the weight of all you’ve been carrying. Let me wrap you up in my arms. Let me hold you safe in my arms. I’m here. I’ve always been here. Come to me and let me love you. And with that I visualized walking into my Savior’s arms, head down, tears falling, but with the slightest smile knowing I was going home to a place I had not yet fully entered. A place where I could feel safe, warm, rescued. A place where no matter what man, or this earth could do to me, a place where I could always go for comfort. A place where I would be welcomed over and over and over again no matter how many mistakes I made. I could come home and tell Him what I had done and ask for His forgiveness, and it would immediately be given, and the love would be there just as strong as ever, never withheld. A place where I could be fully honest and open, and be fully myself, and still be fully loved. Where I didn’t have to be brave enough to be Bliss, instead I could surrender to just being fully Bliss. I didn’t have to work at it anymore, it wasn’t about bei ng anything this time except being fully and wholly me. Alone, naked, fully exposed, and yet clean and fresh and new, surrendering to all that’s been right there, always offered, but too hard to believe it applied to someone like me. But today, on this morning, and maybe on every morning after this again, I surrendered my life to Him. Not for me to figure out what I am supposed to do where I am in control, but to fully surrender to Him and allow Him to be in control of my life and take me where He wants me to go each day, and all the while continue working on being the best human I can be right along with His guidance.

It’s not either or, it’s and . It’s surrendering control to Him of my soul while taking control of my brain and my behavior. It’s writing my story together with Him.

It’s surrender and control. It’s loving myself enough to let Him lead and loving others enough to model my life and my love before them. It’s receiving grace so I can fully give grace. It’s receiving love so I can fully give love. It’s being Bliss so I can share Bliss.

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“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn

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