Our life flows from the inside. Circumstance matters way less than what I've thought before.
For example, you may think that getting your back split open by a viciously handled whip would make you hate the man doing it.
Nope.
Jesus had this very thing happen to him and HE blessed. How is it possible?
Above all else guard your heart, because your life flows from there
Jesus' heart was heavenly. He walked fully in partnership with God the father. His inner world was not so easily shaken by things happening around him. On the other hand, I get upset if we run out of milk...
It is possible and actually must happen, that we who follow Jesus become like him. He offers a chance to have profound depth of peace and life from the inside out. He teaches and leads and changes.
We can be free.
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I read this and I think of this book I read by Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus. It is interesting. you said, "Our life flows from the inside. Circumstance matters way less than what i thought before."
it is like saying that we are not what we have been through in the world. For instance, Nouwen says that you can't truly love someone until you becoming completely vulnerable. By vulnerability he is refering to the person we are when we are just us. It just seems funny. How can we fully live this out? i think none of really knows ourselves in such a way as he is describing, but we do still live our lives out of that being. We were born ourselves... God made us and knows us, but yet, we always seem to view ourselves through what we have been through, what we have overcome, and even who we know... depending on the culture. But yet we are not those things. we are not the circumstance that surround us. we are us. I am me. the sad thing is, just like i won't fully know God until i depart this world, I don't think i can fully know myself either.
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