Glory Glory

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."- Nelson Mandela

Questions of mine....
We have the Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead. Why don't we embrace Him? Why do we live in our muck and mire when we don't have to? Why do we act like we have to fix ourselves when Christ died so that we could live in total and complete freedom? Why don't we ever embrace the glory of God living in us individually and/or as a corporate body? Why so often do we act like the Spirit of God is only found in manifestations like speaking in toungues and prophesy? He lives within us...Christ called Him "the Helper". Why do we act like the glory of God isn't on this earth when it resides in our very hearts? Jesus tore the veil away, why do we keep putting it on?

2 Corinthians 3: 7-18 has been some of my reading this week....

7Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, 8will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! 10For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. 11And if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!
12Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away. 14But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect[a] the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."

Well, I decided to start a new blog. Not one that's sole purpose
is to update people on my life...just one to share with people what God is sharing with me. I want to follow the beautiful example of a recent blog I've seen (beautyandjoy.blogspot.com) and focus more on the joys of life that the Lord so abundently blesses me with. God has taken me through so much refining in the past year and there is so much beauty in all of it. Through the mundane days, there is beauty, through the painful days there is beauty, through the busy days there is beauty and I want to blog it:] In the process of God renewing my mind daily, He takes out the lies the enemy has planted there and in their place plants seeds of truth. I want to share with myself and whoever reads this the beauty of God's glory. It's everywhere. It is so easy to forget it, to get so overwhelmed the busyness of life rather than being overwhelmed by Him...I want to intentionally focus my mind on Him. And this is yet another way to do it. Remember those words form Paul..."Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."- 2 Cor. 6:6