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Greetings,
I hope everyone is well today. I have enjoyed being back home for a few days. Yesterday I was blessed to share in my home church community of Alife. The presence of God was in the house and life was in His family.
Every day the earth rotates in the direction of the sun. Each morning we experience a sunrise, and we call it a new day. The sun does not move. The earth rotates in the direction of the sun. The science is a rotation of the earth in the direction of the sun, but the magical experience is a sunrise in our lives for a new day. This truth in our natural world testifies of a truth in regard to God and our relationship with Him. God does not move. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He loves us and He is ready to give His love to all that desire to know Him. He is the giver of life! He is the giver of light to our dark world. To know His light, we must turn in the direction of Him. When we humble ourselves and bow in His direction, we find Him ready and able to give us a new experience for a new day. Though we were clothed in darkness, when we turn to Him, we become clothed in light. We must face Him, to find His face. We must seek Him, to find Him in our lives.
What direction are we facing in life? The way of the world is to focus upon one’s own personal desires and needs. People look for the substance of magic that meets their own desires and fulfills their own need in some way. They don’t realize that there is a greater destiny in life. God doesn’t just want to meet our needs; He wants to empower us as sons and daughters to be givers of life to our world.
We have a greater destiny than to be merely those who seek our own personal fulfillments. God wants all men to know the destiny of bringing life to their world. It is for this reason that Jesus said that those who are thirsty can come to Him and drink so that life-giving water might flow through them to their world (Jn. 7:37-39). The life of Holy Spirit within us gives us our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. That identity, testimony, and purpose is found in our connection to God in all things. When we look to Him, His kingdom can come, and His will can be done in our lives just as He already declares it to be in heaven.
God is our Father, and we can trust Him to care for us in life. We must also know that He sees us as greater than we can even see ourselves. His aspiration for us to empower us to be sources of life to our world. Humanity sows seeds for harvests that bring life to their world. When that seed is sown for our own selves, we miss the greatness of what God has for us. Our Father cares for us and He also empowers us to be all that He has determined for us to be.
Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
If God cares for creation of a lower destiny, surely He cares for those who are in His likeness and image in this world. He clothes us with our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life, but we must come to Him to put on the clothing of Christ. This is not the clothing of self but the greater clothing of our purpose in Christ. Jesus is the head, but we are His body. We are the family of God for a corporate identity, testimony, and purpose of life.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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