Greetings Dear Reader,
When I first began to follow Christ, I was given an impossible task, or so it seemed. I heard teaching and was given counsel on finding the “perfect will of God for my life.” Because I was in a very conservative tribe of believers, I was also told very clearly by people who did not know me what that will was.
The leadership drew a very clear path for me and made it seem like they knew what my destiny was. They were wrong but they meant well. It was not manipulation but it did not take into account how the Father had uniquely gifted me. I lost a few years in trying to follow a path that was not suited to who I am as a person.
This goes back to our understanding of two things. The first is that if we understand how things unfold in time from God’s perspective, then there is not a path we “should have taken.” Everything is known and understood by God so he knows which fork you will choose every time. You are always, therefore, choosing the fork you were meant to choose. Only humans say you should have gone to the right instead of the left.
It is in this understanding that we view the second but more important aspect of why this is vital to our journey. There is only one way to find the right path for our lives. It is to understand that the foundation for the path is the deep and unwavering love of God for us. That tribe of followers that I knew early on was steeped in being conservative in order to prove we loved God. It only proved it to the humans in that tribe who believed the same thing. The map to following Christ is that the path is loving God and each other in the moment.
When we set up a wall around this that tells us how to conform to the tribe we are not loving. We are putting rules over love. Rules have value but they are not the foundation. Pure and genuine love will lead us to rules that are steeped in kindness, grace, justice, and mercy. Jesus made it clear that vertical love for the Father and horizontal love for each other are the path to understanding the intent and limitations of the Law.
Nothing can separate us from the love of God. He will, therefore, never ask why you did not take this or that path. It is in the past, it cannot be changed, and what seemed a choice to us was foreknown by the Father. We must not waste time thinking that we should have done this or that. Once the choice is made, we can only use the next moment to seek Christ and to love each other. It is in this attitude that we can be assured that the moments, the days, and the life we live is unfolding as it should.
When we walk together Dear Reader it is not my place to point to the past and tell you what you should have done. I am not supposed to look back through time and feel guilt over the past. I am required to see time and learn from it so that I can live in this moment as a more loving and a better fellow traveler. It is the way in which we can walk together in a way that benefits us both. I am going to tell you what the perfect will of God is for your life: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. Everything else is secondary.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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