One of the hardest lessons to learn comes from our stubborn refusal to refrain from interfering in other people’s lives. It takes a long time to realize the danger of being an amateur providence, that is, interfering with God’s plan for others. You see someone suffering and say, “He will not suffer, and I will make sure that he doesn’t.” You put your hand right in front of God’s permissive will to stop it, and then God says, “What is that to you?” Is there stagnation in your spiritual life? Don’t allow it to continue, but get into God’s presence and find out the reason for it. You will possibly find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another— proposing things you had no right to propose, or advising when you had no right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another person, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit. Your part is to maintain the right relationship with God so that His discernment can come through you continually for the purpose of blessing someone else.

Most of us live only within the level of consciousness— consciously serving and consciously devoted to God. This shows immaturity and the fact that we’re not yet living the real Christian life. Maturity is produced in the life of a child of God on the unconscious level, until we become so totally surrendered to God that we are not even aware of being used by Him. When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured-out wine, we have yet another level to reach— a level where all awareness of ourselves and of what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint— a saint is consciously dependent on God.

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November 15, 2010

Journal Entry for Today-JDV

Dear God, why is it that I can be living life right along and enjoying life and our relationship and then without any warning at all, make a wrong choice, and damage my connection?

And God says…”It is in your nature to seek your own choices. It is in your inner core, to seek your own answers to your questions about life and it is in your nature to try to avoid pain and increase your peace and pleasure. Although your choices never bring the results you seek, you make the choice to be independent of Me over and over. That is why the grace you find in Jesus is never ending and the magnitude of the sacrifice so overwhelming. You can only find your life when you lose it, and you come to our connection only when you reach the end of yourself. Forget your failures, and drown yourself in My ocean of grace.  Focus on Me and be transformed.”  

 “As the Apostle said… ’And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.’ 2 Corinthians 3:18