When We Can't Seem to Get it Right by Pablo Giacopelli
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By Pablo Giacopelli
For years I heard that God was primarily interested in my character. In fact, I was told that this was really what he cared the most about in my life and everything he did, including hurting me, was all so that he could develop it. I heard this over and over yet I was never told why God was somehow so obsessed with me getting this part of my life right. Recently I have begun to understand that when we finally begin to discover that we are loved regardless of what we do or don't do, we enter into what is probably the most vulnerable space we can walk through. This truth can be handled and received in one of two ways.
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For years I heard that God was primarily interested in my character. In fact, I was told that this was really what he cared the most about in my life and everything he did, including hurting me, was all so that he could develop it. I heard this over and over yet I was never told why God was somehow so obsessed with me getting this part of my life right.
Recently I have begun to understand that when we finally begin to discover that we are loved regardless of what we do or don't do, we enter into what is probably the most vulnerable space we can walk through. This truth can be handled and received in one of two ways. The first way it can be seen is like a license to kill and steal or it can be seen as a license to live in the thrill Jesus came to show us. Which one we choose will very much depend on where our character is. Now before you start to feel guilty and become obsessed with your character to get it right let me remind you that results and real lasting change in your life belong to God. There is absolutely nothing you can do to make a lasting change within you apart from seeking each and every day to discover how you are being loved that very day.
You see when we focus on developing the flaws in our character we actually give them further power over our lives as what we focus on in life we also empower over us. When we approach life this way the God we follow is also, according to us, obsessed with this part of us and so the motivation for our walk-in my experience is one of seeking to be loved through our performance.
On the other hand when we finally see how loved we are by our lover, this truth, if we let it, will open our eyes so we can be healed and see that being a person of character is nothing more than being fully awake and being able to see the truth that is responsible for setting us free from the trap of the first approach.
Remember living loved leads to awareness and understanding. Understanding leads to healing and lasting change. Lasting change leads us to enlightenment and the ability to see God, ourselves, and life as it truly is.
Pablo Giacopelli
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"God is on my side" I heard someone say the other day as they shared about a dispute they were having with someone else. As I sat there listening to this person give me all the details about why they thought God was on their side and not on the other party's side I began to wonder. So many of us are so quick to say that God must be on our side because of what we have read and others have told us. Clearly when it comes to the way he feels towards us as our father this is indisputable – He always has and always will be on our side. However, can this be also said when we fight and argue with each other about what after all often only amounts to egotistical pettiness?
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I have driven on many third world countries in my time. South Africa is one of these which I happen to often visit. Without fault every time I have been in a car at some stage of my visit, I have had to experience the impact that the regular power cuts have on the traffic signals in this nation. I remember last time I was there when once again while having to endure along with everyone else another blackout, I noticed something that I had never seen before when I came to a non-working traffic light. There is never an accident when the lights are not working whereas when they are working correctly there are plenty. How can this be? Well here is what my heart showed me.
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When we choose to live a life where controlling and watching everything we say and do is king, the impact of our involvement is automatically limited as our heart and mind begin to fight between them for the supremacy of our beings. Consider an archer. If he is free to shoot his arrows anywhere he wants he will have the whole of his talent (heart) available to him. He will have no future results in his mind and will therefore almost always hit whatever he desires. Now take the same archer and ask him to hit the apple above your head and you immediately put him in a space where the potential of being divided is available to him.
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