The Standard

It’s been a while since you have heard from me. Many excuses come to mind, many obligations, responsibilities can be lobbed toward the reading audience as to what has taken so long for a new update. The truth of the matter is, I didn’t want to. One thing in life that is important to me is my God and living by the standard he has set for me. One of the promises I made to God is that I would never again preach, teach or speak His Word to His Sheep, unless directed by the Holy Spirit. Translation, I didn’t want to operate in my gift, but operate in His which He has entrusted to me. So does this blogspot mean that I have returned to prominence and attained all; covered in the anointing, speaking from the soap box of heaven? Not necessarily. In this, I think you will find truth, redemption, light and realization; I think you will see the path that I have journeyed and the truths and standards I have come to recognize.

It’s easy to get off the band wagon, and man it ain’t easy being saved. It just isn’t. With so much temptation, lust, negative talk, swine flu, recession fears, and tight jeans etc…, it just not easy to stay saved. I like many others found myself off-tract. Not backslidden, but more in a state of not performing as optimally as I could. For example, if you are an “A” student, yet you are making “C’s”, its not like you are failing class, but you are failing your gift that God deposited in you. You are not running optimally, or to the standard that you are capable of. So regardless of whether you pass, in many resects you have still failed. I can tell you I have dealt with that scenario my whole life. When was I going to live to the fullest, pursue the fullest, and be the fullest and best I could be? I knew this to be true with school, and with work, but until I noticed that pattern in my spiritual life it didn’t really ring true. It rang true when I realized that I wanted to be the best spiritually that I could be. So I returned to things I did when I was in my groove… “Spiritually”. I returned to things like 5:00 am prayer. So I set my alarm and went to sleep. For the next 2 weeks, I literally woke up at 6:30, 6:45. There were days I didn’t even hear the alarm. So, I put the alarm on the other side of the room. The next couple of weeks, I awoke when my alarm went off at 5:00 am, walked to the other side of the room turned the alarm off and promptly went back to bed. Man. So much for my spiritual rebuilding program. This went on for a couple of more days till it got to the point where me and God had to have a talk.

With no super spirituality, or deepness, I asked God, why is it so hard to be anointed? Why is it so hard to be saved? Why is it so hard to live right? I mean, if I wanted to get involved with sin that would be easy. Give in to temptation, do whatever I want. If wanted to fool around with wuigi boards, and call up familiar spirits, and act dumb, call Ms. Cleo and the pshyic-hotline, that wouldn’t be hard find some demon to posses me. But why is it so hard to be possessed by the Holy Spirit? I know it its possible. I have experienced it. But not on the regular. To draw a distinction I wasn’t questioning God, I was asking God a question out of desperation, and acknowledgement that He is the greater. No sooner than I got the last question out, no sooner did I hear God say “wide is the way that leadeth to destruction”. Thanks for answering, but what does that mean?  The bible says in Matthew 7:13 -14:

 “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

That ahh hah! Epiphany type moment set in. We live in a society and cultural and world that is seriously flawed. There are norms, and values that sound good but aren’t consistent with the Word of God which framed this world. People really think that they can eat whatever they want, whenever they want, not exercise and still say slim by either taking fat burning pills or plastic surgery. We think we can be CEO without learning anything or putting in any work. Somewhere, along the line we have lost the value of the process that makes you and prepares you for your destiny. We live in a microwave generation that wants destiny now; and supersize my destiny please. 

The easy thing to do is to feed the flesh. The difficult thing to do is to feed your spirit, and discipline your body and life. But because its difficult does that mean we should not do it? Because it’s easier, does that make it right? No. Here is the reality, living by the Word takes a standard, and it takes discipline. In this walk we are constantly tested, and tempted. But the testing and tempting is not meant to derail us as much as it is to promote us and prepare us for our purpose, our calling, our destiny. This walk is not easy; but it’s rewarding. Rewarding with the crown of life. The reward that says “well done my good and faithful servant” is the reward we are striving for.  But to get that crown, we must take the road less traveled by the masses. We must take the road that others have refused, called outdated, or were unable to discipline themselves to sustain travel on that road. We must do as the bible says which is to live by the standard that we have attained (Phil. 3:16) and boldly enter through, the strait gate that leads to our Father, our saviour and our destiny…

~ by ne786x on May 2, 2009.