It's not About Me -Max Ludado part 5

see part 1 of this Lucado blog for more info on why I'm writing it


The Hebrew word for “holy” is “qadosh” which means cut off or separate. Holiness, then, speaks of the “otherness” of God. His total uniqueness. Everything about God is different from the world he has made. -Lucado

I guess that's how He can do what is best for us, because He's separated from us.  He can see objectively while lovingly.  We can sort of do that as parents, but not really.  We are so empathetic with our children that we can't see straight half of the time.  We don't exactly have an objective view.  But He made us this way as parents, so there must be a reason why WE are like this and HE is different. 

　
NOT EVEN GOD MADE GOD. -Lucado

Yeah, I'm just gonna let that sink in.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE thinking about things like this.  When was the beginning?  What was before that?  Who made time?  God had to start somewhere...   Well, no He didn't.  He.  Just.  Is.  That is such a cool, crazy concept.  One we can't wrap our minds around, but when we rise sometime in the future and stand before Him, and whenever the time is that we know all the whys and why nots, and hows of the world, IT WILL ALL BE CLEAR! 


He knows your beginning and your end, because he has neither.-Lucado
　
This is just a cool statement to turn around in my head. 


“he has set eternity in their hearts” Ecc 3:11 Tucked away in each of us is a hunch that we were made for forever and a hope that the hunch is true. -Lucado

This is how we can feel homesick for a place that we don’t even remember! Isn’t that crazy? That feeling when life is rushing alllll around you, and you can’t keep up and you long for something you can’t put your finger on. Haven’t you ever felt it? Out of place, but in the place you’re “supposed” to be???? I think we all have, but when we can’t define it, we try to erase it with whatever addiction/coping mechanism your body responds to best: spending money, sex, alcohol, escape, depression, shopping, ignoring life. The homesickness is from God; the self destruction you use against it is from the enemy.

Whatever weakness you hold in your body, the enemy will exploit and use it against you.  And guess what?  He'll do that to your strengths, too. 

"Throw off your old evil nature...Yes you must be a new and different person , holy and good.  Clothe yourself with this new nature."  Eph 4:22, 24