What is God up to?

Most of the time we do not want God's perspective. What we want is to know how to live our life with the most ease and praise. Even when God allows things into our lives to cause us to grow and mature, we reject them, seeking rather to have a good life, not the best life.

In some kind of religious way we can also take the discipline of the Lord and convert it into some kind of distorted self-righteousness. We can use the hard things we go through as some sort of "badge of self worth". Our heart can crow cold toward God as we live as servants for Him, having little love and a lot of fear.

To make life more complicated, we can do both at the same time. The human heart has the ability to deceive the mind and emotions. We can spend hours of our life by filling ourselves with guilt, shame, self-righteousness and self- worth. We can spend days and weeks bounding back between the "I shouldn't have to's" and the "No one else has to" and the I'm better because I". Living life with God can be turned into a never ending exam or an endless pursuit of what I want for me.

The cross is the place of truth and divine justice. As we realize how much we are loved and how much God is willing to do so that justice is served, we find a revelation of how to live. We need to go through some things because God is worthy of our being equipped to help others. Being loved by God is a greater way than some kind of divine neglect. We are loved with the intent to be like God Himself. Christlike transformation requires some enduring of stuff.

The authority to heal the sick, raise the dead, speak with transforming power into the life of another, all require inner and personal transformation. We go beyond talking about the ideas of these things and into living them out as we are personally and internally changed. God is making in us vessels of supernatural love. Like Jesus, we too are called to love Him much when the cost is beyond common acceptance. Now is the time to gain authority to "not be shaken" in any area of our life because we have become "unshakable in the encounters (knowledge) of the love of God.