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Love Misunderstood

4/19/2017

 
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When he’s running in the parking lot and there’s a car coming, I shout, “hold on!”
            But he starts to cry. He wanted to run and play. He wants to be free. But I’m holding him back.
I do it out of love, but he misunderstands.

Sometimes God shouts “hold on!”
            And I cry “why?!” I want to run. I want to be free. But God’s holding me back.
God does it out of love. But I misunderstand.
 
I force-feed him food that he doesn’t want to finish. You think I enjoy spending 30 minutes making you eat while my own food gets cold? I get nothing out of this. I do it for you. For your health. I do it because I love you. But he misunderstands. I’m ruining his life. He’d rather just drink milk all day.
 
God force-feeds me things I don’t want to learn. “I already know all this! What are you doing?!” But he does it for me, not for him. He does it because he loves me, but I misunderstand. I don’t want solid food. give me milk.
 
I don’t like it but I do it. I do nonsense things to make him laugh. I wouldn’t do it for anyone else. Only because of love. But he misunderstands. He thinks he runs faster than me. Maybe he thinks I’m like a clown, that I’m silly or conceited, a baby just like him.
 
God does nonsense things to make me laugh. It gives him joy to see me smile. But I misunderstand. Do I think he’s just like me? walks like me, talks like me, makes mistakes like me? Maybe what I see isn’t the whole picture. Maybe he dances just to see me smile.
 
Every so often I change his diaper. I don’t like doing it. It’s dirty and smelly. I wouldn’t do it for anyone else. But he’s my child. He sees it as a right. I better change that diaper. He misunderstands my love.
 
My diaper is dirty and full of sin. I really can’t change it myself. So God takes the old diaper with his bare hands. He wouldn’t do it for anyone else. But I’m his child. And the old is gone. Behold, the new has come. But I take it for granted what He did for me. I misunderstand his love.
 
He doesn’t want to go to sleep. There are so many more things to do. But there’s a time for everything, and it’s time to sleep. I’m right there to help him sleep, to put his soul to rest. This too is love.
 
I don’t want to die yet. There are so many more things to do. But there’s a time for everything, and it’s time to sleep. God’s right there for those who sleep, to enter into his Rest. This too is love.
 
But he does understand gifts. He gets excited when I buy him a toy, a car. It’s so fleeting and temporal. It’s cheap. But it speaks his language. He understands this to be love, so I give him lots of it. But love is more than this. He misunderstands.
 
I love God for his gifts. I appreciate the toys, the car, the house. It’s so fleeting and temporal. It’s cheap. But it speaks my language. My limited perspective sees this as love, and God showers me with so many gifts – clothes, friends, shelter, breath. But love is more than this. I misunderstand.
 
When he bumps his head, which happens a lot, it gives me pain too. Love is pain. I would even give my life for him, but he would misunderstand. Baby don’t know what it means.
 
When I hit a bump, which happens a lot, it gives Him pain too. Love is pain. He even gave his life for me. But some people misunderstand. I guess some people never understand his love.

Now I have brand new daughter. 5 weeks old. oh great. another one to "love"
I hope you don't misunderstand.

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She got a nosejob...

4/11/2017

 
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She got a nosejob, lipjob, a facelift, didn’t touch the eyes but she could see better, a $6000 paint job, a bigger booty but longer skirts, shorter but stronger legs, wider feet that could stop on a dime, and brand new shoes to match. She feeds plenty of horses and has unrestricted breathing except for one cat.

She has an expanded memory. Her air is cooled from the front, and whistles when excited. Never giving her steroids but she’s got bass in her voice. She’s not too loud except when flying at 4000, and yes she’s got wings. She’s got cool shades and bling for her toes. But more importantly, she runs well on the track.
 
It was a long process, and still in process.
But it’s all progress leading to faithfulness
 
And so it is with sanctification.
It takes so long to be more like Jesus.
It would’ve been much easier if God changed me instantly, if I was transformed in the twinkling of an eye.
       Why wait so long.
       Even for God.

It would’ve been easier still for God to purchase a brand new Porsche, with a better engine, with a better package. Why wait for me to get to that level? He may wait for a while. More than a while.

Isn’t it easier to choose someone else? with a stronger heart, more horsepower. Bigger brains and a sexy trim. Bigger brakes and more holiness.
​Why start with someone that’s found on Craigslist?
If I was God I would’ve put me on the blacklist.
 
But he’d rather work with raw material than create a new Porsche. Any rich guy can buy a gem off the lot, but it takes work and pride to build one from the bottom.
Maybe God likes working, and there’s a lot to work on in me.
No, God likes building, and shaping, and molding.
 
          And the process is intentional, the change is step by step. He can’t teach me wisdom until he first gives knowledge. He can’t mod my temper unless he first works on my pride. You can’t run stage 3 cams when you still have a stage 1 fuel pump.
 
Slowly but surely he molds a new heart,
through up’s and down’s, still better than the start.
Why it takes so long I think I now know
to spend that garage time means: He loves us so
Becoming more like Jesus with each modification
little by little by little - that’s sanctification    

But does it matter if I memorize more than 500 verses?
When you’re cruising at 55, what good is 500 horses?
Does it matter if I’m an amillennial infralapsarian 5-point Calvinist
​with a EJ255 GDF Subaru run by an Optima galvinist?
But those surprise track days come once in while
when you meet that Mormon or Muslim, or just a guy who’s hostile.
Or for the sake of truth, a seeking friend beckons
Then you’ll be glad you can run the quarter mile in 10 seconds.
 
It was a long process, and still in process.
But it’s all progress leading to faithfulness
 
Make history. Don’t just live in it.

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