sick still, even had to cancel a nice getaway with a few very close friends... :( I have been sick quite a bit lately... some interaction today with someone who cares about me and is very dear to me but so obviously does not share my faith made it clear to me again that ( no surprises here) what the Bible says is SO TRUE!!!!!
"This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit." (1 Corinthians 2:13+14)
I do believe that mind, soul and body are all inter-connected and one.. makes a lot of sense to me, I think that especially as someone who understands that there is the seen and the unseen world, and they both exist at all times, it makes sense that emotional stress could be weakening one's immune system and vice versa... no question about that...
so that's what made this well meaning person to tell me again that I was not dealing with things and that me saying I was well / fine / good... was a mistake and that those things here on earth are not something God deals with, because they are down here and too small anyways... and that's why I am sick, again...
now this is someone that has heard me share about my personal relationship and that my Jesus is someone that is right here with me and is intricately involved with all the details of my life, small or big.. and still, it makes no sense to him, it's foolishness...
he also cannot understand that I am dealing with things in the only way I think is right, by giving it to God, by forgiving and letting go, by following Him as good as I can, with His help .... this includes accepting that living life here on earth includes heartache, hurt, sadness, pain and illness...
accepting that going through these times is okay and that I do not have to find some solution to fix the problem on my own by analyzing it away but that I instead just surrender all my cares to Him and trust that He will take care of me, be either solving what can be solved, show me how to solve things or by patiently enduring the sorrow and heartache...
I guess without the spirit life is only about the here and now and therefore finding solutions and fixes for anything that stands in the way of total enjoyment is so much more important...
I know that my citizenship is in heaven and that my real destination is there... whatever God allows me to suffer is only going to make me more like Him, will allow me to be a better ambassador for Him....
I think today's conversation was just to remind me again that without God "letting ears grow on one's heart" opening someone's eyes by saving them, all that He has taught me, the wisdom He has given me is nothing but FOOLISHNESS to them.... sad but true...
it is all Him, never anything I could say.... He is the One that has to take the blinders away.... and there is nothing I can do for things being interpreted in the wrong way, talked about behind my back...
they just don't know any better... praying that they will one day, not for my but for their sake...
