WORD FROM VINE
Where is that tug today? Living as we do, busy with our errands and to-do lists, we tend to stray away from what nags our conscience in down-time moments. It’s a feeling not related to the events of life or agendas, but of something not related to the physical aspects of life. It is a notion that seeps so quickly casting a flash of light feeling, snapping in a split second, but significant enough to catch our attention. We treat it as a fleeting thought though, then we suppress it with our continual business. That impressive feeling tugs a bit but we move on with our day. Insensitive as our flesh is, God tenderly seeks your attention in order to help. It can only help you if you let it. You only know what it is trying to tell you if you are willing to listen or if you are willing to take the time to listen.
Much of what God has for us is lost due to by our unwilling nature which does not allow to be sensitive to the divine spirit’s intention to pass on for us to live into. An unwilling heart will miss the divine’s spirit’s impartation of wisdom God has for you. It is life’s loss and ineluctably, your experience.
God will orchestrate events in daily course of events that gives a chance to make things better for all in God’s eyes, good acts and word brings God’s essence to our life. Your life’s condition could very much be a product of your unwilling acceptance that there is a tug.
“Just as you do not know how the lifebreadth passes like the limbs within the womb of a pregnant woman, so you
cannot foresee the actions of God, who causes all things to happen. Eccl. 11:5
You transform from just walking in faith (noun) of God to believing in God – to walking in the verb “believe”. Are people today living in the verb or in the noun? That is a tough question to answer. It is also a tough question that is desired to be glossed over. It would be inconvenient for a whole house of faith professing people to be seen as unchanged and untouched by God’s divine touch of grace.
Faith is not the result of reason or intellectual process. It cannot be settled with mathematical means. Only God knows you. Only God knows who seeks to be close to Him. God tugs one’s heart, it could be a yearn, or a sense of unease. It is common for so many to go on with their own lives with that unheeded tug. That unheeded tug is God’s way to guide you away from making poor decisions, guide you into the right path, including leading you into a relationship and closer to doing what pleases God. Again, by not being willing to listen, it becomes one’s loss. Not believing that God seeks to have a relationship with you is the beginning of living in a drought of God’s involvement in your life.
Considering God’s willingness for a relationship, it would be sad to live believing that God is not actively seeking a relationship to bring you closer to teach you more of Him. Maybe for those who live by the conception that God is not willing for a relationship, is a way to justify their dearth of the divine spirit in their lives. Such a way of living, not heeding the tugs and not being aware of the tug occurring, leads you to be so ever convinced that God is far away and not involved in your daily life. Sadly, this is a symptom of contemporary life. This syndrome is compounded with saturated daily agendas. But as life goes on daily, because it will go on with us or without us, take a moment, breath deep, capture the moment in time and reflect on where you are, why is the current time so important, search your feelings and think if your life is sensitive to God’s tug, to realize how much of about God you do not know to be able to justify your denial.
Blessings!
J.B. Lorenzo
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